Getting Started: An Easy To Use Dementia Care Framework with Comprehensive Care Planning
- Applicable for every unique dementia care situation, without being overwhelming to patients and their care partners
- Importance of specialized care for individuals with dementia
- Role of rehab therapists in dementia care
- Develop an effective care circle: Who is along for the journey?
- Who Controls the Dementia Journey? When Care Partners Need To Take Control
- Advanced functional assessments for complex ADLs and iADLSs
The Burden Being Carried: Impact of Dementia on Care Partners and Society
- Dive into the primary dementia types, symptoms, risk factors and progression
- Alzheimer’s disease
- Vascular dementia
- Lewy body dementia
- Frontotemporal dementia
- Other types of dementia: mixed dementia, Parkinson’s dementia, etc.
- Atypical presentations of Alzheimer’s disease
- Differentiate between primary and secondary progressive aphasia
- Evidence-based tools for prevention of cognitive decline with clinical application for patients and their care partners in their daily challenges.
Understanding Cognition: Advancing Critical Thinking Skills
- In-depth exploration of comprehensive cognitive assessments & specific benefits of each
- Short Blessed Test, BCAT and The MoCA, CNS Vital Signs, Kingston Scales
- Tools to differentiate depression from dementia
- Assess physical and sensory impairments in individuals with dementia
Practical Solutions To Challenging Behaviors: How and Where To Focus PEACE Approach for agitation, aggression, wandering, repetitive questions and more!
- Person With Dementia:
- Manage common dementia related “challenging behaviors”.
- Recognize and manage comorbidities in dementia care
- Environment of care:
- How it can either help (or hinder) function
- Effective home evaluation tips for dementia
- Complex environmental assessments and modifications for safety and independence
- Activity engagement:
- Tools to promote psychosocial well being
- Example: Montessori-Based Dementia Programming as a treatment modality
- Care partner stressors and the impact on patient’s function
- Explore readiness to change related to becoming a care partner
- Education:
- How to tailor the treatment plan and care partner education
- Research updates on non-RX interventions & person centered care
- Best practices to address challenging behaviors
Advanced Treatment Approaches for Dementia Care
- Interventions for maintaining mobility, preventing falls and promoting independence in ADLs
- Adaptive equipment, environmental modifications and emerging technology
- Exercise and physical activity recommendations
- Little known tools, checklists and resource guides for therapists and assistants
- Ethical considerations in decision-making and endof- life care for individuals with advanced dementia
Help the Helper: What Rehabilitation Professionals Need To Know About Being A Care Partner
- Support families and caregivers through the challenges of advanced dementia care
- Community resources and support networks for caregivers
- Self-care and stress management for caregivers
- Integrate mindfulness and holistic approaches
- Balancing autonomy and safety concerns in dementia care
- Tips to avoid early institutionalization
Develop a Comprehensive Dementia Care Plan: Putting It All Together
- Help your care partners develop their own comprehensive dementia care plan
- Develop care plans and treatment strategies based on case scenarios
- Analyze complex and multidimensional case studies in dementia care
- Apply advanced problem-solving and critical thinking skills
- Role-playing exercises to enhance communication and intervention