The Aging Brain & Body Challenges & Treatments (Online Course)

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The Aging Brain & Body Challenges & Treatments (Online Course)

The Aging Brain & Body: Challenges & Treatments – Mary Ann Rosa & Roy D. Steinberg

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Improve your aging clients’ outcomes and their families’ lives with this interdisciplinary approach to evaluation and treatment!

Each day you witness your clients face challenges caused by aging. Although you want to give the best care possible to your clients, it can be frustrating to understand the frustration caused by sensorimotor changes due to aging. You can transform your practice by empathizing more with your patients.

This online course will teach you how to provide the best care for your clients and their families. This online course will teach you how to deal with the cognitive and physical implications of aging, as well as the effects they have on clients and their families. You’ll also learn about the pathological changes and functional impairments that can affect vision, hearing, mobility and dementia.

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When you enroll in this training, you’ll walk away with:

Strategies to manage difficult behavior in clients who have an altered perception of reality
Cognitive assessment tools for diagnosing and treating clients suffering from depression, restlessness and delusions.
Nutritional interventions to increase your client’s desire and ability to eat due to physical and psychological changes
Evaluation and development plans for treating Dementia, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and more
Cognitive and physical modifications or techniques to optimize daily functioning
You can do so much more!

With this comprehensive online course, you’ll gain the knowledge, skills and confidence you need to advance your clients’ quality of life!

Learn innovative and practical intervention strategies to improve the care you provide…

Session 1

Enjoy the Aging Brain & Body

Join Mary Ann Rosa, MSN, GNP-BC, CDE, and Gerontologic Test Suit GERT® for a high-energy, dynamic session filled with interactive learning and insightful discussions. You’ll leave the seminar with practical skills that you can put into practice immediately!

Strategies to deal with seniors with a distorted perception of reality.
Analyze why individuals with cognitive impairment wander and create strategies to redirect or minimize this behavior.
Communicate the environmental, behavioral, and psychological causes of agitation.
Analyze the physical and psychological changes that affect an elder’s desire and ability to eat including the changes in nutritional requirements.
Assess the elderly adult’s ability to manage medication and polypharmacy.
Assess the causes of non-adherence and develop strategies to increase adherence.

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Session 2

The Aging Brain: Assessments, Treatments & Interventions

Walk away with the tools necessary to differentiate the diagnostic criteria for various types of dementias, including Alzheimer’s disease, Vascular Dementia, Parkinson’s disease, Frontotemporal Dementia and Lewy Body Dementia. In an energetic and uplifting style, geriatric psychologist Roy Steinberg, PhD, will introduce you to a recipe of what works and what doesn’t with and for older adult patients and their care providers.

Analyze the effects of dementia on brain structure, function, and identify the differences between “normal forgetfulness” Cognitive impairment
Diagnose dementias, including Alzheimer’s disease, by accurately identifying manifestations of each type and understand how these differences impact prognosis in older adults.
Identify the differences between Folstein Mini-Mental State examination, SLUMS and MOCA, and use them effectively as screening tools for cognitive impairment or dementia.
Create adaptive behavioral interventions that allow patients to receive individualized care and foster greater participation in therapy.
Examine the concept of caregiver guilt, its implications for clients, clinicians and caregivers for older people with dementia.
Correlate patients’ strengths and limitations to potential therapeutic approaches when developing treatment plans for older adults with dementia.

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With these highly effective strategies, you will leave confident in your ability to expand your clients’ care to help improve their daily life. Register Now

 Here’s what you’ll get in The Aging Brain & Body Challenges & Treatments (Online Course)

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