This package contains four modules and is designed to meet the continuing education requirement for the assisted living director of an assisted living with dementia care under Chapter 60, Article 2, 144I.38 Subd.2(b). It has been approved for 13.25 clock hours.
Details:
There are four training modules included in this single package of webinars. Together they equal 13.25 hours of education. They were originally recorded in 2020 with half of Module #1 updated in 2022 to incorporate changes from the August 1, 2021, implementation of assisted living licensure. Each webinar module can be viewed one at a time to earn a portion of the total clock hours upon completing an evaluation. The modules are not available for individual sale and CEUs are available only for the person buying it.
Module #1 – Overview and Early Dementia (1 hour)
Presenters: MICHELLE R. KLELGON, Attorney, Klegon Law Office, Ltd., Minneapolis; and JODI L. MELIUS, RN, Program Coordinator, Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center, Mayo Clinic, Rochester
• Refresh your knowledge about the regulatory rules that require dementia training - including audience and topic.
• Articulate how brain function works and how dementia interferes with it.
• Review the common types of dementia – their causes, symptoms and stages so you can understand the range of care and services you may be expected to provide.
• List three warning signs that may indicate that dementia is present and require an intervention.
• Describe why symptoms are often a form of expression or communication by the person with dementia.
Module #2 - Related Dementias: What Aging Services Providers Need to Know (1.5 hours)
Presenters: ANGELA LUNDE, MA, Education Specialist and LEAH K. FORSBERG, PhD, Program Coordinator, Mayo Clinic, Rochester
• Describe Frontotemporal Dementia (FTD) and Lewy Body Dementia (LBD) including the causes and stages of each type.
• Become familiar with issues people with FTD and LBD may experience that can impact the service your organization provides to people with dementia.
• Identify key local and national resources that will help you and your staff improve their work with people who have different types of dementia.
Module #3 - Person-Centered Care and Strategies to Avert Challenging Behaviors (5.75 clock hours)
Presenters: CATHERINE R. JOHNSON, PsyD LP, Licensed Psychologist, Associated Clinic of Psychology, Minneapolis; and SUSAN RYAN, OTR/L, Adult Day Program Consultant, St. Paul
• Recognize how persons with dementia express their sexuality and determine what situations should be addressed as a caregiver.
• Understand what drives persons with dementia to wander, pace and successfully exit your building and how to address their need for movement while reducing risk of harm.
• Reflect on rummaging behavior and know what it really means to your resident and what, if anything needs to be done about it.
• Analyze why repetitive questioning and storytelling are a part of the diseases’ progression and how you can best relate when people communicate in these styles.
• Identify what’s behind resistance to care and services and learn how to minimize it to build more positive connections and reduce risk of harm to yourself and the individual.
Module #4 - Person-Centered Care and Strategies to Avert Challenging Behaviors (5 clock hours)
Presenters: TERRIANNE JONES, PhD., OTR/L, Instructor, Occupational Therapy, Center for Allied Health Programs, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis and JOHN BROSE, PhD, LP, LMFT, LADC, and Director, Associated Clinic of Psychology, Minneapolis
• Describe strategies for partnering with an individual in accomplishing Activities of Daily Living (ADLs) to help them be successful.
• Understand potential physical changes that may result in communication barriers, so you know how to minimize them and promote positive communication.
• Recognize when a person is hallucinating and what you should or should not do to connect with them.
• Discuss displays of paranoia and the best ways to communicate with an individual in this state of mind.
• Identify the potential for expression of aggressive behaviors to avoid escalation, while reducing risk of harm.
• Consider agitation an expression of an unmet need so you can help channel it in more positive directions.