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Empower Dementia Care Partners.
Create a continuity of dementia care philosophy and approach through the implementation of our interdisciplinary dementia training using a cost-effective train-the-trainer format. This training prepares interdisciplinary teams to provide person-centered, abilities-based care that improves function, safety, and quality of life.
This interdisciplinary training is designed for all care partners involved in dementia care, including therapists, administrators, facility educators, dementia program directors, nurses, CNAs, social workers, and activities, dietary, housekeeping, and other support staff.
All groups attend the same session on the first day, but the Care Partner Applications and Instructor Program participants continue with more in-depth training and practical techniques on the second day. Instructor Program participants go on to a third day of training to develop their skills and learn to conduct in-house programs of their own.
One-Day Foundation Course
From Start-Up to Full Census in About One Year!
Within one year of implementing this interdisciplinary training, a 125-bed long-term care community was operating at full census in a market that averages 75% capacity. The new facility, which offers assisted living and skilled nursing care, also received the region’s Health Care Innovation Award for excellence in dementia care.
Establish a common framework for promoting best abilities.
The Foundation Course provides all who work in dementia care a common framework about Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD), a best-abilities perspective, dementia stages, behavior management, and care techniques to promote the best ability to function.
Course content:
- Introduction to Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD)
- Theoretical framework
- Philosophical framework
- Impact on cognition
- Identification of the stages of dementia
- Allen Cognitive Level and best-abilities approach
- Care approaches to maximize function and well-being
- Behavior and communication
- Strategies for minimizing behaviors and enhancing communication
- Family support methods
Two-Day Foundation and Care Partner Applications Course
Apply new skills and adjust various aspects of dementia care.
Building on the Foundation Course, this course emphasizes application and includes activities, case studies, and discussions relative to assessment, care approaches, documentation, and functional maintenance programs.
Course content:
- Principles to guide care
- Examination of the stages of dementia in relation to the Allen Cognitive Levels
- Identification of care approaches
- Best-abilities approach for each stage
- Case study
- Behavior and communication strategies
- Person-centered approach to each stage of dementia
- Simulations
- Functional maintenance programs
- Creation of individualized plans with communication strategies, care approaches, and responses to behavior
- Interdisciplinary team strategies to achieve positive outcomes
Contact Hours
A Certificate of Participation for 7 contact hours for the Foundation Course and 6 contact hours for Care Partner Applications will be provided as well as CEUs. It is the responsibility of the participant to ensure that these courses meet your CEU requirements prior to registration.
Three-Day Instructor Program
Become authorized to teach staff at your facility.
The Three-Day Instructor Program, our train-the-trainer course, allows an organization to create a positive, congruent approach among all staff. On day three, participants learn how to deliver consistent staff training rooted in a person-centered, abilities-based model. Upon completion, they gain authorization to purchase and use CPI’s training materials to teach the One-Day Foundation Course within their organization.
Course content:
- Key teaching points for each unit of the Foundation Course
- Strategies for staff training in a person-centered, abilities-based model
- Adult learning methods to promote retention and training transfer
- Course customization techniques to build relevance for different staff groups
- DCS quality standards that support ongoing staff training
- Assigned practicum training for each participant
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Instructor Kit
Each participant in the Three-Day Instructor Program receives a comprehensive Instructor Manual and materials necessary for staff training. The materials include a starter supply of Foundation Course Participant Workbooks and an Electronic Presentation to help deliver the program with ease.
More information on the Three-Day Instructor Program.