Sira Botes is an Occupational Therapist whom graduated from the University of Pretoria in South Africa in 1993. She moved to the Unites States in 1996 and currently resides in the Gainesville, Fl with her husband and two girls. Sira developed a passion for persons living with dementia as she observed her mom’s ongoing struggle with memory loss as well as her grandfather’s battle with Alzheimer’s, complicated by Korsakov’s syndrome.
Her role as a home care clinician, treating persons living with cognitive impairment inspired her to create a communication platform, the Memory Bouquet, that could impact everyone involved with dementia care. Sira’s discontent with current tools available to clinicians for assessment, and treatment purposes, moved her to create her own unique evidence-based assessment tool.
The Botes Analysis of Functional Cognition focuses on the role of executive function during activity engagement. As a result, the Botes Memory Method was born and has impacted seniors and their loved ones and caregivers across the state of Florida. Sira has been invited to speak on podcasts, webinars and live events as well as presenting to her peers at a state level. She has trained hundreds of Occupational Therapists and caregivers alike in the use of the Memory Bouquet to elevate the quality of life and decrease the burden of this disease for everyone involved.