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Our Popular Dementia Training Course for Therapists Is New and Improved!
Our popular dementia training course for therapists, Dementia Therapy: Achieving Positive Outcomes for the Person With Dementia, has received a face-lift. This redesign offers the option to attend the One-Day Foundation Course or to attend Two-Day Foundation and Dementia Therapy Applications. Additionally, modifications have been made to improve transfer of knowledge to the workplace.
What Therapists Will Learn
- Identify the paradigm shifts in our approach to dementia care.
- Demonstrate an understanding of Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD) and its impact on cognitive function.
- Describe the stages of dementia and approaches to maximize function and emotional well-being.
- Identify care approaches that promote best abilities corresponding to the Allen Cognitive Level of the person with dementia.
- Examine ways to support care and treatment plans in order to maximize function and well-being of persons with dementia.
- Explore the treatment path formula.
- Discuss keys for successful reimbursement.
- Develop and properly document treatment goals and plans.
- Create and implement a successful maintenance program.
Maximize Therapy Services and Revenue!
Your facility could be losing at least $4,200 in Med. A. revenue per resident. This training helps maximize reimbursements by ensuring that opportunities to provide therapy services aren’t being missed and that clients with ADRD aren’t being prematurely discharged because they “no longer show progress.”
Why Therapists Should Attend
- Training from Dementia Care Specialists helps clinicians deliver higher-quality care that improves outcomes and enhances quality of life for people with ADRD and their families.
- Experience shows that people receiving care appropriate to their abilities have fewer complications such as infections, stress, falls, hospital admissions, UTIs, skin breakdowns, depression/anxiety, and wandering.
- Well-trained therapists have more confidence and skills to successfully evaluate and treat those who may have learning impairments and behavior challenges related to ADRD.
- This training program establishes a common language so that staff teams are more effective at driving positive outcomes.
One-Day Foundation Course
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 Dementia Therapy Applications
Apply new skills and adjust various aspects of dementia therapy.
Building on the Foundation Course, this course takes a deeper dive into therapy-specific information relative to assessment, care approaches, documentation, and maintenance programs.
Course content:
- Review of Foundation Information
- Treatment Path Formula
- Influence of Can do, Will do, and May do factors
- Cognitive Disabilities Model and Assessments
- Allen Level Modes
- In-depth examination of Allen Levels
- Strategies to apply information to goal setting and treatment planning
- Keys to successful reimbursement
- Understanding of regulations
- Documentation
- Coding
- Maintenance Programs
- OBRA and Joint Commission standards and regulations
- Tips for successful implementation with organizational structure
Benefits of Therapy Training
- Ability to appropriately identify clients in need of therapy services.
- Knowledge to perform a cognitive assessment to identify realistic goals and treatment approaches for those at all stages of dementia.
- Skills to identify and facilitate the best ability to function and document services.
- Methods to facilitate maximum functioning even when the client is learning impaired or has behavioral challenges.
Contact Hours
A Certificate of Participation for 7 contact hours for the Foundation course and 7 contact hours for Dementia Therapy 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.
Now Available Online!
Dementia Capable Care: Dementia Therapy Applications is now available as an online course for those therapists who have completed the Foundation Course as taught by a DCS trainer or Authorized Instructor. Course brochure [pdf]. Register now.
Take the Next Step in Dementia Therapy Training
If you have already attended a DCS therapy course or have experience using the Allen Cognitive Disabilities Model (CDM) with geriatric dementia clients, you may want to take the next step in dementia training by attending the Two-Day Two-Day Dementia Therapy Intermediate Course. Not sure, try our Course Readiness Tool.
Interested in Training Others in Your Organization?
Many therapists have also participated in our interdisciplinary care partner training. By successfully completing the Three-Day Instructor Program, therapists can gain authorization to purchase and use CPI’s training materials to teach the One-Day Foundation Course within their organization.