Gudrun Schaade

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Gudrun Schaade (* 1942 in Munich ) is a German occupational therapist , specialist book author and lecturer. Her focus is on therapy and support for people with dementia . Gudrun Schaade has five grandchildren and lives in Germany.

Life

Schaade has been an occupational therapist since 1965 and initially worked mainly with paraplegics in Hamburg. After taking a break for children, she began working with people with dementia in 1983. Not only since her retirement in 2002 has she been giving lectures at specialist congresses and offering seminars on the subject. Her current focus areas also include advising and caring for relatives, active work in various Alzheimer's societies and participation in the German Dementia Expert Group.

Act

At the beginning of the 1980s, the treatment of people with dementia did not attract much public attention. Gudrun Schaade was one of the first to deal with the promotion and activation of these people. She is considered a pioneer for occupational therapists in the field of dementia and developed a support concept for the treatment of people with dementia. She presented this concept in 1997 at the 1st Alzheimer's Congress in Stuttgart. It uses well-known neurological therapy concepts such as B. the Bobath concept or the Affolter model , SI (sensory integration) and basal stimulation and adapts them to the possibilities of the patient. Important resources are a sense of rhythm in the sense of simple, repetitive movement sequences such as B. swaying. Here the vestibular system is promoted. Hand coordination is achieved by clapping. The hands in the treatment of dementia play an important role, as they are usually closed in the end stage and contractures occur. The long-term memory and the body self-awareness must be promoted. Resources should be promoted and security conveyed in a playful way. For this purpose, Schaade developed their “Schaade therapy folders”, the use of which should not only address cognitive resources, but also offer tactile - kinaesthetic and proprioceptive stimuli. Since 2005, Gudrun Schaade has also been increasingly concerned with Korsakov's syndrome , an irreversible form of brain damage caused by alcohol.

Book publications

  • Schaade, Gudrun: Occupational therapy for dementia diseases. Springer, 1998/2002/2004/2008 / 2012. 5th edition
  • Schaade, Gudrun; Kubny-Lüke, Beate: Dementia. Alzheimer's disease. A guide for relatives and everyone who looks after people with dementia. Schulz-Kirchner, Idstein 2005.
  • Schaade, Gudrun: Occupational therapeutic approaches to treatment for dementia and Korsakow syndrome . Springer 2009/2016. 2nd Edition
  • Schaade, Gudrun: In occupational therapy in the field of geriatrics, chapter on "Dementia disease" and occupational therapy treatment, Thieme, 2005.

Web links

Sources and Notes

  1. ^ Gudrun Schaade: Movement and body awareness. Observations and suggestions from the perspective of occupational therapy ( memento of the original from October 22, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . (from Alzheimer Info 01/2007) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.deutsche-alzheimer.de
  2. ↑ Video interview with Gudrun Schaade at EbeDe.net (forum for occupational therapy in dementia)
personal data
SURNAME Schaade, Gudrun
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German occupational therapist
DATE OF BIRTH 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich