Nursing homes and other healthcare facilities must provide specialized treatment and services to residents living with dementia in order to attain or maintain their highest practicable physical, mental, and psychosocial well-being. This includes an interdisciplinary approach that focuses on the individual’s needs, qualified staff with the necessary competencies and skills, and individualized, non-pharmacological approaches to care. The facility must assess, develop, and implement care plans through an interdisciplinary team approach that includes the resident, their family, and/or resident representative. Care plan goals must be achievable and the facility must provide the necessary resources for the resident to be successful. Behavioral or psychological expressions may be caused or exacerbated by environmental triggers, and medications may be effective when the underlying cause of a resident’s distress has been determined and non-pharmacologic approaches to care have been ineffective. Nursing homes and other healthcare facilities must take these new actions in order to ensure that residents’ individualized dementia care needs are met and that they are providing the highest quality of care.

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