What You’ll Discover in Jennifer McKeown Aging Brain, Alzheimer’s Disease and Other Dementias Bridge the Communication Gap, Manage Challenging Behaviors and Connect with Your Clients and Their Caregivers
- Faculty:
- Jennifer McKeown
- Duration:
- 5 Hours 50 Minutes
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Copyright:
- Apr 19, 2018
Description
- Transform your interactions with Clients and Engage them in meaningful activities
- Reduce anxiety and agitation. and Other behavioral aspects and Psychological symptoms
- Preventive treatments and medications and side-effects explored
- Work with Families to maximise support and improve care
- Sex and Sexual identity and dementia and Alzheimer’s patients – what you need to know!
The challenges and Workplace frustrations with people suffering with Dementia can feel overwhelming. You worry because your clients’ needs aren’t clearly communicated and You need a better method to reach them. Difficult behavior issues, such as agitation and Anxiety can often take control the You are able to provide care. Interventions and techniques that worked yesterday, don’t work today. You even have to work with patients and They discuss personal, uncomfortable issues such as sex with their spouses and sexuality that they didn’t teach you about at school.
As a Licensed Mental Healthcare Counselor and Director of Social Work at a skilled nursing facility Jennifer McKeown It has spent the Intensified in the last decade the Alzheimer’s and dementia field. Through her work with Hundreds of dementia sufferers and She has also acquired the assets of their families. the Hands-on skills, techniques, and Solutions you will need the Answer your questions and challenges and Provide the best care possible.
Join Jennifer As she guides you through the basics of what works and what doesn’t with geriatric patients facing Alzheimer’s Maladies and Other dementias. You will be able to return to your practice more competent to assess and evaluate. and You can effectively intervene to reduce aggression, depression, and anxiety and Other behavioral aspects and Psychological symptoms of dementia. Expand your knowledge of medication and preventative treatments and the Impact of their side-Effects on older patients Get up and leave with Innovative tools for overcoming communication gaps and A strategy to maximize client support during a partnership with Caregivers and Families.
Practical and understandable, Jennifer’s animated and Interactive delivery style will draw your attention into the Dementia is a serious condition and Leave you feeling empowered and Are you eager to put your new skills to good use?
Don’t wait, sign up for this multifaceted seminar today!
The following are the key benefits of attending
- Communication Tools to transform your interactions with Clients and Engage them in meaningful activities.
- Sidestep problem behaviors – identify and Learn the causes of hallucinations and delusions. and anxiety.
- Up-To-Make behavioral interventions to control agitation and elopement, reduce risks, and Allow you to adapt treatment the Diseases can change.
- Learn how to deal with sex and Sexual identity and dementia with Have confidence and sensitivity.
- Tips and Partnership strategies with Family caregivers to provide better care.
Handouts
Manual (3.42 MB) | 98 Pages | Available after Purchase |
Outline
- Diagnosis and Prognosis and Pharmacological Treatment
- Different types of dementia and pseudo-Memory impairment
- Alzheimer’s Maladies
- Diagnosis and Prognosis
- Stages/Presentation
- Risk factors/Genetics
- Assessment tools
- Medications and side-effects explored
- Current medications
- Preventative Treatments
- Bridge the Communication Gap with Innovative Approaches
- Traditional communication is replaced with behaviors
- Person-centered: Gathering beliefs and Values
- Tips for effective communication with dementia patients
- Find the meaning behind the gesture
- How to avoid arguments
- What are some questions you should ask? and What to ask?
- Connecting meaningful activities
- Music and Memory
- Photo books and boxes
- Postcards and Other innovative tools
- Behavioral and Triggers for Psychological Symptoms and Intervention Techniques
- Depression and Anxiety
- Journaling
- Music and Memory
- Aromatherapy
- Triggers and pain for agitation and care planning
- Music
- Aromatherapy
- Bright light therapy
- Illusions and Hallucinations
- Possible causes and There are complications
- Wandering can be a stress relief
- Elopement -reducing risks and Action steps
- Assimilation the Disease changes
- Depression and Anxiety
- Work with CaregiversFamily as Members the Care Team
- Family dynamics
- Normalizing change
- Validation, empathy and active listening
- Family counseling in 1:1 format
- Preventive grief counseling
- Caregiver self-Assessment scale
- Caregiver burnout and Where can I get help?
- Sex and Intimacy and Sexual Identity in Dementia and Alzheimer’s Disease
- Sexual manifestation and Expression
- Dementia and marital sex
- Assessment tools to assess consentability
- Sexual expressiveness and Interventions to protect dignity
- LGBTQ Culture
- You have to be there and competencies
- SAGE: Advocacy & Services for LGBTQ Elders
- The Ethics of Dementia
- End of Life Issues
- Power of Attorney
- Elder abuse
Faculty
Jennifer McKeown, LMHC., CDP., CADDCT Similar seminars and products: 1
Jennifer McKeown, LMHC., CDP., CADDCT Is a Certified Dementia Practitioner and Licensed Mental Health Counselor. and Alzheimer’s Disease and Dementia Care Trainee who has seen hundreds upon patients and They support their families. the Process of dementia and Alzheimer’s disease. As a hospital social worker, she found her true calling. and Director of social work at a nursing facility. Jennifer She has immersed herself into the Field over the last decade and Serves as the Director of social work at a skilled nursing facility, focusing on psychosocial supports and Education for the family Jennifer A community college also offers adjunct courses in dementia to nurses and service providers. and social work students.
Speaker Disclosures
Financial: Jennifer McKeown Bethany Village’s director for social work. Corning Community College is her adjunct professor. Ms. McKeown PESI, Inc. gives a speaking honourarium
Non-financial: Jennifer McKeown Is a member the American Mental Health Counseling Association.
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