Program Overview:
- The 12-16 hour dementia training provides CNAs and other clinical staff with intensive training and certification in dementia care
- The course is recognized by the National Council of Certified Dementia Practitioners and can be offered on site at employer locations
- Employers can offer course as a mandatory or optional employee training.
- The 2019 workshop schedule has yet to be released. Please contact Margaret Bacheler at [email protected] to be added to the program waiting list.
Course Content:
- Overview of Dementia
- Environment
- Staff and Family Relationships
- Stress and the Care Giver
- End of Life Procedures
- Multicultural Considerations
- Sex & Intimacy
- Hoarding
- Wandering
- Communication
- Repetitive Behaviors
- Aggressive Behaviors
- Paranoia & Hallucinations
- Recognizing Pain
- Depression & Alzheimer's Disease
- Personal Care
- Toileting
- Nutrition
- Sleep Disturbance
Curriculum
Please Note: Curriculum can be modified to include additional modules, including Hand-in-Hand training.
- Overview of Dementia:
- Stages & symptoms of Alzheimer's
- Reversible / non-reversible Dementias
- Normal aging
- Medications used for treating dementia
- Environment:
- Social environment
- Physical environment - walking path, lighting, noise, stimulation, home- like, clutter free, glare, safety, etc
- Staff and Family Relationships:
- Working together: challenges that families face with long term care placement
- Stress and the Care Giver:
- Taking care of yourself as the caregiver
- Signs of breakdowns with family members-alcohol, drugs, depression etc
- Support Groups
- End of Life:
- Feeding Tubes
- Advance Directive: Do Not Resuscitate and Do Not Hospitalize;
- Dying Process and Supporting the Family/ Care Givers
- Multicultural Considerations in Care Giving:
- Cultural and religious sensitivity/diversity
- Sex & Intimacy
- Misconceptions about the elderly and sex and intimacy
- How to handle inappropriate behaviors
- Hoarding
- Signs and ways to help
- Wandering
- Types of wandering & triggers
- How to redirect & manage wandering
- Policy and procedures for elopement
- Wandering Tools, Safe Return, Wander Guards, Alarms, etc
- Communication
- Verbal and Non Verbal Communication
- Strategies to successful communication
- Avoiding common mistakes
- Repetitive Behaviors
- Common Behaviors
- Interventions for Repetitive Behaviors
- Medications
- Aggressive Behaviors
- Causes of Aggressive Behaviors
- Environmental Conditions, Physical & Medical Conditions
- Anti Psychotic Medications & Side Effects
- Interventions
- Responding to Aggressive Behaviors
- Paranoia & Hallucinations
- Types of Behaviors & Causes
- Management Strategies
- Anti-Psychotic Medications & Side Effects
- Recognizing Pain in the Person with Dementia
- How is Discomfort Expressed?
- Yes or No Responses
- Assessing the Pain
- Depression & Alzheimer's Disease
- Signs & Symptoms of Depression
- Interventions and Activities
- Personal Care
- Dressing & Bathing
- Cognitive Changes
- How to Encourage Participation
- Toileting
- Causes of Incontinence
- Proper Toileting & Frequent Toileting
- Nutrition
- Nutrition Goals
- What not to put on trays, anything that can be swallowed!
- Memory Aides for Dining Room
- Reasons for Eliminating Sugar and Caffeine from Diet
- Seating Assignment-How to group people together
- Dental Care
- Sleep Disturbances
- Causes &Interventions
- Medications and Side Effects