Description

Alzheimer's Disease and Dementia Care Seminar by NCCDP

Become certified at the Colleges discount cost. Add CDP to your business cards and resume. Better care for the dementia resident and reduced resident to resident and resident to staff issues.

Objective and Goals

• To provide fundamental education on dementia & and dementia care
• To enhance the quality of life of dementia patients through educating care providers
• Foster sensitivity & respect for the dementia client
• To teach communication techniques
• To provide sensitive approaches for assisting patients with activities of daily living
• Identify common causes of aggressive, repetitive, and sundowning behaviors in older adults
• Describe behavioral/care interventions that may be used to prevent, reduce, or eliminate difficult care situations
• Describe challenges related to caregiver stress and utilize stress1·eduction techniques
• Learn alternative activity interventions that are success oriented & failure free
• Learn how to develop a Wandering Preparedness Team
• Address issues of sexuality and the dementia patient
• Address end-of-life care

REGISTRATION FOR THIS SEMINAR IS CLOSED