This instructor-led course covers the characteristics and impacts of various types of dementia and strategies to support a consumer who has dementia.
Description
This is course # 2001 in IHSS Career Pathways and CalGrows. It is part of the Cognitive Impairments and Behavioral Health Pathway, which is a specialized pathway.
Working with someone with someone with dementia and/or Alzheimer’s disease can present unique challenges. This course will help you to better understand signs and symptoms of memory disorders, personality changes, and impaired reasoning, and provide strategies to better support consumers navigating these challenges.
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
- Define “dementia” and describe how it may affect a consumer’s learning and memory, thinking, language, judgment, and/or behavior
- Understand several types of dementia, their causes, and differences between them
- Describe ways in which dementia can impact a consumer’s loved ones, and how to navigate those challenges
- List strategies for supporting consumers with dementia (including focusing on the process vs the outcome, supporting with reality orientation, validating a consumer, and redirecting)
- Describe several strategies for improved communications with someone with dementia
Please note: Each class can only be taken once. Registrations for additional sessions of the same course are not eligible for payment of training time or incentives and may be deleted. If you wish to change your registration to a different time or date, please cancel your reservation in the User Portal after registering for the new session. If you need help, please contact CareerPathwaysInfo@HomebridgeCA.org.
