Free Best Friends™ resources
Be a Best Friend to your loved one or on the job with these free handouts and audio/video resources on the Best Friends™ Approach:
Best Friends™ Approach basics
- The Dementia Bill of Rights
- Building Blocks of the Best Friends™ Approach
- Elements of Friendship and Dementia Care
- Moving the Needle
- Elements of Knack
- Recipe for the Life Story
- The Best Friends™ Approach to Activities
- 30 Activities to do in 30 Seconds
- 30 Activities to do in 30 Seconds during Covid
- The Best Friends™ Approach to Communication
Best Friends™ Approach handouts for professional care partners and memory care communities
- The Best Friends™ Environment
- The Best Friends™ Approach to Family Interactions
- Old Idea versus New Idea Programs
- 21 Ways to Sustain a Best Friends™ Program
Webinars and videos about the Best Friends™ Approach for family care partners
- “The Virginia Bell 100th Birthday Symposium” held during the June 2022 Alzheimer’s International Conference in London, with Virginia, David Troxel, Tonya Cox, and Dr. Nori Graham.
- Virginia Bell, at 99, looks back on her life in dementia care in a conversation with David Troxel
- “Religion, spirituality and dementia” featuring David
- “Creating a contemporary and activity-rich dementia care program” featuring David and long-term care experts Diane Byrne and Melissa Dillon
- “How to talk (and listen) to people with dementia” featuring David
- “Dementia care in the time of social distancing” featuring David
- “Caregiving for the holidays” featuring David
- “Relationship-based caregiving” featuring David
- “Alzheimer’s and dementia care: Where we’ve been and where we’re going” featuring David