Community Classes to Enhance Caregiving Skills
Join us for a community-based class geared to refresh or increase your caregiving skills and earn Continuing Education Units. Classes are offered year-round throughout the community on topics such as Compassionate Communications, Addressing Challenging Behaviors, enhancing memory skills, and many other topics. Click here for a schedule of upcoming classes. A modest fee is charged for CEUs. For more information on our professional education classes, please contact Laura Printy, Professional Education Manager at Laura.Printy@sanalz.org, or 858.492.4400 ext. 122.
Campaign for Quality Residential Care
People with dementia make up 50% of residents in long-term care. The Alzheimer's Association is committed to champion dementia care that is safe and respectful for each individual, and to train health care providers to provide the best possible dementia care.
Our National Dementia Care Practice Recommendations are supported by numerous national healthcare associations serving the elderly and at-risk populations. Goals for key care areas are:
Ensure nutritional well-being through adequate food and fluid consumption.
Manage pain to ease distress and avoid unnecessary use of medications.
Engage residents in activities that have personal meaning.
Prevent unsafe wandering and promote safe, independent mobility.
Reduce the risk of falls and fall-related injuries.
Encourage physical restraint-free care.
Train for Results
Our field-tested programs help you achieve longer-lasting, more consistent results. We offer classroom and online training formats offering CEU opportunities at competitive pricing that provide:
A team approach: We train both your supervisors and direct care staff with the same care practices. your supervisors learn to model best practices and motivate staff to be independent problem solvers.
Strategies for residents in all stages of dementia: Staff learn skills, from simple techniques like use of body language, tone of voice and physical stance; to more advanced skills such as recognizing and reporting pain.
Connecting with residents: the more care providers know about a resident, the more effectively they can respond to individual care needs. We emphasize attention to individual resident preferences, behaviors and ways of communicating.
For more information on our professional education training, please contact Laura Printy, Professional Education Manager at Laura.Printy@sanalz.org, or 858.492.4400 ext. 122.
Interactive, Multimedia Training for Administrators, Nurses, Social Workers and Care Staff
Staff learn care approaches through role-playing exercises and lively discussions using realistic film clips and case studies. Our professional education trainers will work with you to design the best training plan for your scheduling needs and budget. You have the flexibility to purchase all training modules or choose the ones most critical for your staff. We can provide training at your site, or at a community location.
Current Training Modules include:
Understanding dementia: Learn about the effects of dementia; practice dementia care techniques.
Making connections: Engage residents with simple activities and meaningful interactions.
Reducing pain: Learn to observe signs of pain and how to provide complete pain reports.
Enhancing mealtimes: Draw on knowledge of residents' needs and preferences to improve nutrition and hydration.
Preventing falls: Learn strategies to reduce risk of falls and preserve mobility.
Understanding wandering: Assess reasons for wandering; prevent unsafe wandering.
Encouraging restraint-free care: Learn techniques to prevent, reduce and eliminate use of physical restraints.
Providing end-of-life care: Minimize phyisical, emotional and spiritual distress; maximize well-being; ensure communication with resident, family and care team.
Learning to lead: for supervisors, nurses and other group leaders, foster teamwork to improve care coordination and reinforce best care practices.
Web-based training programs
Alzheimer’s Association Learning Academy This online curriculum makes high quality dementia care training affordable, convenient and accessible to any professional working with the elderly. Eight self-paced modules are available. The fee is $20 per module and topics include:
· Overview of Dementia
· Communication
· Medications for Behavioral Problems
· Managing Difficult Behaviors
· Working with Families
· Elder Abuse Reporting Laws
· Personal Care & Special Needs
· Activities
Visit http://www.alzceu.org/ to start learning today! For more information about the online Learning Academy contact Laura.Printy@sanalz.org or 858.492.4400 ext. 122.
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. Topics include:
Clara Jones and her Care TeamIntroduction to Dementia
Understanding Behavior as Communication
Making a Connection with the Resident
Eating Well
Recognizing Pain
For a description of the modules, pricing plans and a free demo, go to http://www.caresprogram.com/
Dementia Care Training for Team Leaders
This program provides guidance for those who supervise others involved in the care of people with dementia: nurses, unit coordinators, administrators, activity directors or others in leadership positions. After this training you will be able to:
Identify and implement methods to facilitate teamwork.
Select and use improved communication and supervisory practices.
Identify techniques and deliver meaningful feedback to members of your team.
Recognize and create an environment that motivates staff.
This course costs $25 per person and volume discounts are available. For a free demo and to register, go to: The Dementia Care Training for Team Leaders site.
