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Solve Challenging Dementia Behaviors: Support Family Connections and Losses as Root Causes
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Objectives
- Differentiate Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia using a strengths-based, functional abilities model.
- Demonstrate mindfulness interventions and techniques to use for people living with dementia.
- Analyze attachment theory as it relates to people living with dementia, including attachment loss, separation distress, and challenging behaviours.
- Evaluate the 5 Love Language framework as a “toolkit” to build the emotional love connection with those affected by Alzheimer’s and other dementias.
- Choose non-medication-based strategies to manage challenging behavioural expressions in people living with dementia.
- Determine new frustration-ending alternatives to manage agitation, aggression, and other challenging behaviours.
Copyright :
02/03/2021
Challenging Geriatric Behavior
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Objectives
- Develop strategies to manage difficult behaviours in seniors who have an altered perception of reality.
- Differentiate the signs and symptoms of Alzheimer’s Disease and other dementias.
- Analyze current research on the prevention of Alzheimer’s disease, as well as lifestyle factors to slow the disease progression.
- Analyze the safety issues associated with geriatric patients who drive and identify individuals who pose a safety threat.
- Conclude why wandering occurs in individuals with cognitive impairment and develop strategies to minimize or redirect this behaviour.
- Analyze the environmental and behavioural causes of agitation.
- Differentiate between appropriate and inappropriate sexual behaviours in individuals with dementia.
- Distinguish between normal sleeping patterns and bedtime issues which could lead to increased health problems.
- Analyze the physical and psychological changes that affect an elder’s desire and ability to eat including the changes in nutritional requirements.
- Assess the signs of caregiver stress and develop intervention strategies to prevent burnout.
Copyright :
24/06/2019
Geriatric Pharmacology: Maximizing Safety & Effectiveness
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Objectives
- Determine preventative techniques and individual monitoring plans to minimize adverse drug events and drug-drug interactions.
- Apply the principles of polypharmacy to the patient with cognitive impairment.
- Analyze the effects of ageing on pharmacokinetics.
- Evaluate major causes, mechanism and early symptoms of drug-induced toxicity.
- Assess tools used to safely taper and discontinue medications.
- Apply prescribing strategies for the geriatric patient.
- Integrate age-sensitive principles for medication dosing and management to clinical scenarios.
Copyright :
12/03/2019