Abstract

Varied dementia care approaches have been posited (PIECES™, GPA™, Dementiability™, and Teepa Snow Dementia Workshops™) to offer direction on managing behavioral expressions (BE) in persons with neuro-cognitive disorders (PwNCD). LuBAIR™ Paradigm is the first approach to offer a specific framework to ascribe meaning to each phenotypic cluster of BE in PwNCD. The results of quantitative and qualitative measures used to evaluate LuBAIR Paradigm in clinical workshop settings, for frontline healthcare staff, are presented. Quantitative evaluation was conducted using three specific questions—does LuBAIR Paradigm offer a “better understanding of brain and behaviors,” “better understanding of meaning of behaviors,” and “better assistance in behavioral care planning”— when compared to the existing approaches in dementia care. Qualitative evaluation was based in thematic analysis of the descriptive feedback from the attendees at the workshop. The total number of attendees at the workshop for the years 2017, 2018, and 2019 were 185. Quantitative evaluation revealed that 98.4 percent of the attendees found LuBAIR Paradigm to assist in “better understanding of brain and behaviors,” 98 percent in “better understanding of meaning of behaviors,” and 92 percent in “better assistance in behavioral care planning” for PwNCD. Thematic analysis re-iterated the same strengths of LuBAIR Paradigm in its role in assessing and managing BE in PwNCD. LuBAIR Paradigm offers a distinct and a focused approach in assessing and managing BE in PwNCD.