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About Professional Training
The Alzheimer's Association is committed to helping professionals improve their knowledge and skills, builder stronger teams and deliver better care to people with dementia and their families. Training and education programs are geared to professionals working in both community-based and residential care settings. Our programs and meetings have been attended by activity professionals, administrators, nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists, social workers and staff trainers. Many of our programs offer CEU's. Foundations of Dementia Care TrainingCARES Online Training
2012 Conference on Alzhiemer's & Other Dementia - Des Moines, IA
Upcoming Professional Training Dates:
Professional trainings listed on this calendar are in RED. Click the CALENDAR BUTTON below for a month to month listing.
Foundations of Dementia Care - Training for Healthcare Professionals & Careworkers
The Alzheimer’s Association, recognized as the nations leading authority on Alzheimer care, support and research proudly presents Foundations of Dementia Care Campaign for Quality Residential Care training. This innovative educational program is available throughout Iowa and is designed for care-giving staff of Assisted Living Residences, Skilled Nursing Facilities, Home Health, Hospice, Home Care and other care providers. Developed in collaboration with leading national health and senior care organizations, this training stresses the importance of better care through better understanding of dementia, and creating connections between caregivers and those they serve. Practical, problem-solving approaches to the challenges of dementia care are taught with hands-on opportunities to practice new skills aimed at improving the quality of life and quality of care for individuals living with dementia.
Course includes the following topics:
- Learning to Lead: Provides tools for creating an environment of learning that will reinforce lessons learned in the classroom. Includes Leading the Team, From Classroom to Practice, and Building a Vision.
- About Dementia: Provides participants with a definition of dementia and its impact on a person’s ability to function. Includes Dementia Basics, Improving Communication, and Understanding Behavior.
- Making Connections: Describes the social needs of residents and provides tools and techniques for ways to have meaningful interactions with residents.
- Enhancing Mealtime: Teaches staff the importance of proper nutrition and approaches for challenging mealtime solutions.
- Understanding Wandering: Teaches staff to identify why wandering occurs, to identify situations that may lead to wandering, and to apply strategies that promote safe wandering while preventing unsafe wandering.
- Recognizing Pain: Discusses the different types and causes of pain and teaches staff approaches for reducing pain.
- Reducing Risk of Falls: Describes ways to reduce and prevent injurious falls by promoting mobility, identifying and removing fall hazards and monitoring fall risk factors on an ongoing basis.
- Promoting Restraint – Free Care: Examines ways that, even in restraint – free communities, residents may be unintentionally restrained and provides information about proactively addressing needs to maximize resident autonomy and well being.
- End of Life Care: Addresses the special considerations unique to people with dementia at end of life and focuses on strategies to improve the dying experience in nursing homes or assisted living facilities
Upcoming Trainings:
DUBUQUE, IA - April 12th & 19th - 10 a.m. - 2:30 p.m. - Northeast Iowa Community College$50 (includes 0.96 CEUs or 9.6 CEHs)
To register contact Northeast Iowa Community College at 563.557.8271 x380
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DUBUQUE, IA - October 11th & 18th - 10 a.m. - 2:30 p.m. - Northeast Iowa Community College
$50 (includes 0.96 CEUs or 9.6 CEHs)
To register contact Northeast Iowa Community College at 563.557.8271 x380
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CARESTM Online Dementia Care Foundational Training: A Dementia Caregiving Approach (web-based training)
The CARESTM Online Dementia Care Foundational Training program features hundreds of videos of real residents, CNAs, and staff members. This 10 module (10-hour) online dementia care training program delivers high impact training for CNAs, supervisors, nurses, social workers, administrators, and other direct-care workers. Topics include:
- Meet Clara Jones
- Introduction to Dementia
- Understanding Resident Behaviors as Communication
- The CARES Approach
- Making a connection with the Resident
- Eating Well
- Recognizing Pain
- Minimizing Falls
- Rethinking Wandering
- Restraints
