Description:
Providing basic information on the physiology of dementia and its behavioral manifestations, this workshop help you to enter into the experience of the Alzheimer's patient, understanding what function has been lost and how the person's world has been forever altered. The viewer also discovers what capacities remain intact and how to maximize them. This basic knowledge provides a pathway into the strange yet accessible reality of the Alzheimer's patient. Finding common ground helps you to communicate in effective, mutually satisfying ways with persons who are cognitively impaired.

Objectives:

• Participant will summarize the progressive damage to the brain and related loss of function
• Participant will explain why the reality orientation approach does not work
• Participant will identify at least three ineffective/counter-productive approaches to communicating with cognitively impaired patients.
• Participant will list at least one effective/productive approaches to communicating with cognitively impaired patients.
  
  

*** Hospice Education Network is an approved provider of continuing nursing education by the Massachusetts Association of Registered Nurses, Inc., an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.

**** Hospice Education Network, provider #1182, is approved as a provider for social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) www.aswb.org, through the Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Hospice Education Network maintains responsibility for the program.

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