Memory Care: Vital Tools

• Handling Challenging Behaviors
• Basic Principles for Preventing Challenging Behaviors
• What to do when a challenging behavior DOES occur
• What You Do Matters Most
• Assess the Problem and Start Setting Priorities
• Verbal interaction
• Non-verbal intervention
• What to do when the crisis is over
• Skills for Dealing with Families
• Feelings of the Family Members
• Helping Families Cope
• Developing a Caregiver-Family Team

Part 1: Understanding Alzheimer's Disease & Dementia

• The different terms for memory loss and what they all mean
• Causes of memory loss
• How you can be sure of a diagnosis
• What can be done to help someone with memory loss
• What someone with dementia might experience
• How to understand and explain the progress of a disease like Alzheimer’s Disease.
  

Part 2: Daily Care Skills

• Why daily care tasks are so challenging for people with dementia
• How to take the fear and difficulty out of these once-simple daily skills
• How to help the person with dementia stay as independent as possible for as long as possible
• How to get a person to bathe or do another seemingly impossible task, and keep your cool
• How to problem-solve challenges in daily care on your own in the future.
  

• NAB: This educational offering has been reviewed by the National Continuing Education Review Service (NCERS) of the National Association of Boards of Examiners of Long Term Care Administrators (NAB) and approved for 6 clock hours.
• California Board of Behavioral Sciences (BBS): PCE # 3291
• California RCFE and ARF: Approval pursuant to NAB and BBS approval
• California Board of Vocational Nursing and Psychiatric Technicians (LVN):#V-10621
• Oregon Board of Examiners of Nursing Home Administrators: 2007-040: General 6 Ethics:0
• Michigan Department of Human Services: Approved for Adult Foster Care Administrators pursuant to Rules 400.14203 and 400.15203
• Kansas Department of Health and Environment: Approval #: LTS -A1138