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About Professional Training

The Alzheimer's Association is committed to helping professionals improve their knowledge and skills, build stronger teams and deliver better care to people with dementia and their families. Our 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 certified nursing assistants, activity professionals, administrators, nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists, social workers, day respite workers and staff trainers. Many of our programs offer CEUs.

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Douglas County
Dementia Care: Best Practices
One Day Workshop
March 26, 2013    9:30am-5:30pm
Superior Public Library
1530 Tower Avenue, Superior, WI 54880
Pre-registration required. 
Fee $75. and includes all materials.
Sharlene Bellefeuille: 715.635.6601
sbellefeuille@alz.org

 

St. Croix County
Dementia Care: Best Practices
One Day Workshop
April 4, 2013    8:30am-4:30am
Hudson United Methodist Church
Fellowship Hall
1401 Laurel Avenue, Hudson, WI 54016
Pre-registration required. 
Fee $75. and includes all materials.
Sharlene Bellefeuille: 715.635.6601
sbellefeuille@alz.org 

Professional Training Programs

Dementia Specialist: Best Practice Workshop – Two Day     Fee 
The program offers creative and interactive learning experiences with significant opportunities for networking and teambuilding. The Dementia Specialist program offers an opportunity to experience the world from the perspective of someone with Alzheimer’s disease or other related dementias.  The program includes: real-life practical skills and strategies to use these skills, problem-solving techniques to assist with challenging behaviors and tips and tools to increase success and make caregiving more satisfying. This program is recognized throughout Wisconsin. At the completion of the program, participants will receive a certificate designating 15 contact hours of continuing education.

Dementia Care: Best Practice Workshop – One Day      Fee
This seven hour program condenses components from the more comprehensive Dementia Specialist Training.  This program, presented in a creative and interactive learning environment, will cover the basics of Alzheimer’s and other related dementias, importance of life story, communication and positive interaction.  Problem solving techniques to assist with challenging behaviors will also be addressed. This training is provided on-site. At the completion of the program, participants will receive a certificate designating 7 contact hours of continuing education.

Foundations of Dementia Care Series      $25 per module
This national program, part of the Alzheimer’s Association Campaign for Quality Residential Care, teaches care professionals hands-on strategies based on the latest research and expert evidence in the dementia care field. Participants learn skills – from simple techniques using body language, tone of voice and physical stance – to more advanced skills such as recognizing and reporting pain. The training offers nine modules in the most critical care areas. The Foundations of Dementia Care is offered in class room format on or off-site.

Foundations of Quality Dementia Care courses include 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. Foster teamwork to improve care coordination and reinforce best care practices. 4 hours

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. 4 hours

Enhancing Mealtimes
Draw on knowledge of residents' needs and preferences to improve nutrition and hydration. 2 hours

Pain Management
Learn to observe signs of pain and how to provide complete pain reports. 2 hours

Making Connections
Meet the social needs of residents through tools and techniques for ways to have meaningful interactions. 2 hours

Understanding Wandering
Explore an assess reasons for wandering and learn the safety measures to prevent wandering. 2 hours

Reducing Risks of Falls
Learn strategies to reduce risk of falls and preserve mobility. 2 hours

Encouraging Restraint-Free Care
Learn techniques to prevent, reduce and eliminate use of physical restraints. 2 hours

Providing End-of-Life Care
Minimize physical, emotional and spiritual distress, maximize well-being and ensure communication with the resident, family and care team. 3 hours

 

Activity Based Alzheimer’s Care (ABAC)       $65
building a therapeutic program
This one-day interactive training program will appeal to activity or life enrichment professionals, providing energetic, interactive exercises, case studies and discussion.  This program is filled with an abundance of information on activity programming for persons with dementia. It has been designed in a way that assures quality and consistency in activity programming. Through six 1-hour modules, ABAC helps participants to learn a range of skills from assessment and program design through teamwork and evaluation strategies. Each participant will receive an Activity Based Alzheimer’s Care Manual, a comprehensive manual provided for use during the program and as a reference tool.

Approaching Alzheimer’s           Free
make your first response the right response
This important training program is designed specifically for law enforcement officers, paramedics, fire fighters, disaster relief personnel and other first responders. This training program will help make jobs easier, keep these professionals safer and give them strategies for working with people who have Alzheimer’s and related dementia in the community. This versatile program can be presented in a variety of ways. Working with the local Alzheimer’s Association chapter, a community agency or department can host a series of 30-minute to 1- hour trainings or more comprehensive 3 hour training.

 

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Web-based training programs

CARES: A Dementia Caregiving Approach

This affordable, Web-based program has six one-hour training modules that are geared primarily to direct care workers, particularly nursing assistants. Each module uses text and streaming video to illustrate how to best care for people with dementia living in residential care settings.

 

For more information or to schedule any of the workshops listed above, please contact Joan Litwitz, Program Director, at 715.635.6601 or via email at joan.litwitz@alz.org.