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1. Accurately stage the patient with dementia or other cognitive impairments
2. Utilize patient staging levels to design appropriate treatment interventions
3. Demonstrate successful intervention of Errorless Learning Techniques, Spaced Retrieval, Montessori-Based Dementia Programming, Reminiscence Therapy, and The Ability-Based Approach
4. Implement Validation Therapy, Reflective Listening, and Re-Direction to increase communication between you, the patient, and the caregiver
5. Document patient-centered goals, measure progress, and justify necessity through utilizing Medicare documentation guidelines
6. Distinguish the differential diagnosis of degenerative neurological diseases and detect how dementia symptoms vary among the diseases

DEMENTIA AND DISEASES

• Differential diagnosis of degenerative neurological diseases
  • Detect how dementia symptoms vary among the diseases

ASSESSING OR STAGING? WHAT DO THEY TELL US AND WHICH DO WE DO?

• Standardized assessments
• Patient-centered assessments
• “Staging Tools”
• What patient skills to expect at each stage
• Chronological ages that go with the stages

DOCUMENTING DEMENTIA SKILLED INTERVENTIONS

• Write patient-centered goals
• Measure progress and justify medical necessity
• Making daily documentation “skilled”
• Key words that reflect functional outcomes in dementia therapy

APPROACHES TO THE MEMORY SYSTEM

• Memory system to use for new learning/conscious memory
• Memory system for procedural learning unconscious memory
• Documenting memory systems per medical diagnosis

EVIDENCE-BASED THERAPEUTIC INTERVENTIONS

• Errorless Learning
  • Error vs. Errorless learning
  • Directions for successful use of errorless learning
  • Interactive lab/case discussion
• Spaced Retrieval
  • Specific timing and directions of spaced retrieval for the dementia population
  • Designing a “prompt question”
  • Discipline-specific demonstrations using Spaced
  • Retrieval
  • Written goals and skilled documentation
• Montessori-based Dementia Programming
  • Translate Montessori teaching into successful therapy intervention
  • Retrogenesis: Understanding First In – Last Out Theory
  • Create structured stimulating activities appropriate to individual cognitive levels
  • Written goals & skilled documentation specific for
  • Montessori techniques
• Ability-Based Approach
  • Design successful therapeutic interventions according to patient abilities
  • Determine the patients best ability to function
  • Written goals & skilled documentation specific for ability-based techniques
  • Examples and case studies provided
• Reminiscence Therapy
  • Powerful use of the “senses” designed to awaken the soul
  • Know the patient is “alive inside”
  • Design individual and/or group Reminiscing Therapy sessions
  • Select activities and create reminiscing themes and kits
  • Written goals and skilled documentation
• Memory Books/Aids
  • Proven methods in presenting functional & factual information in written & picture format
  • Idea suggestions for individual stages of life/ “stages” of dementia

COMMUNCATION SKILLS: THE KEYS TO BEHAVIOR

• Reflective Listening
  • Listening from a position of empathy & emotional intelligence
  • Practice multiple verbal formulas proven for success
  • Client-centered communication – Reflection of Feeling
  • Avoiding pitfalls all listeners fall into
  • Interactive lab/case examples and discussion
• Validation Therapy: A Powerful Communication Tool
  • Principles and pointers for dismantling power struggles and resolving arguments
  • Accepting values, beliefs, and reality regardless of accuracy
  • Handling hallucination, delusions, hoarding, blamers, and accusers
  • Interactive lab/case examples and discussion
• Re-direction
  • Learn the key to “agree” with what the patients wants/needs through conversation
  • Case study for safety, ambulation, hallucinations, and delusions
  • Interactive lab/case examples and discussion

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Listed below are the continuing education credit(s) currently available for this self-study package. Please note, your state licensing board dictates whether self study is an acceptable form of continuing education. Please refer to your state rules and regulations.

Certificates of Successful Completion are available for email, download and/or printing from your online account immediately following the successful completion of the post-test/evaluation.

**Materials that are included in this course may include interventions and modalities that are beyond the authorized practice of mental health professionals. As a licensed professional, you are responsible for reviewing the scope of practice, including activities that are defined in law as beyond the boundaries of practice in accordance with and in compliance with your professions standards.

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Nurses

Vyne Education, LLC. is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation. This educational offering is offered for 6.0 contact hours.

Nurses - California: Vyne Education, LLC. is approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider #CEP 16668, for 7.2 contact hours. Full attendance is required to receive credit, variable credit for partial attendance may not be awarded.

Nurses - Florida: Vyne Education, LLC. is an approved provider by the Florida Board of Nursing, provider #50-466. This educational offering is offered for 6.0 contact hours.

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Occupational Therapists, Occupational Therapy Assistants

Vyne Education, LLC. is an AOTA Approved Provider of continuing education. This educational offering is offered for 0.6 AOTA CEUs. The assignment of AOTA CEUs does not imply endorsement of specific course content, products, or clinical procedures by AOTA. AOTA Educational level Intermediate, Category 1: Domain of OT, 2: Occupational Therapy Process.

Occupational Therapists, Occupational Therapy Assistants - Florida: Vyne Education, LLC. is an approved provider #50-466 with the Florida Department of Health Board of Occupational Therapy Practice. This educational offering is approved for 6.0 contact hours for Occupational Therapist and Occupational Therapy Assistants.

Physical Therapists, Physical Therapist Assistants: This educational offering qualifies for 6.0 continuing education hours as required by many national, state and local licensing boards and professional organizations. Save your course outline and certificate of completion, and contact your own board or organization for specific filing requirements.

Physical Therapists, Physical Therapist Assistants - Illinois: Vyne Education, LLC. is a Registered Physical Therapy Continuing Education Sponsor through the State of Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation, Division of Professional Regulation. License #:216.000309. This educational offering qualifies for 6.0 CE Credit Hours.

Physical Therapists, Physical Therapist Assistants - New York: Vyne Education, LLC. is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Physical Therapy as an approved provider for physical therapy and physical therapist assistant continuing education. This educational offering is awarded 6.0 contact hours.

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Speech-Language Pathologists, Audiologists
This educational offering qualifies for 6.0 continuing education hours as required by many national, state and local licensing boards and professional organizations. Save your course outline and certificate of completion, and contact your own board or organization for specific filing requirements.


Information obtained in this course should be used within your scope of practice.

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Other Professions
This educational offering qualifies for 6.0 continuing education hours as required by many national, state and local licensing boards and professional organizations. Save your course outline and certificate of completion, and contact your own board or organization for specific filing requirements.

All Professionals
In order to process continuing education, please supply the appropriate license certification number on the evaluation form.

Certificates, Educational Offering Completion Requirements
Certificates will be awarded upon receipt of payment and successful completion of the educational offering and evaluation form.

Requirements
Please note that full attendance and the completion of a post course assessment with a score of 80% or greater is required to receive full credit. Variable credit will not be awarded.

Technology Requirements
Digital Seminars, Live Video Webcast, and Online Course will require participants to set up a personal portal account via Vyne Education, LLC.’s website at www.vyne.com and have access to a computer with a sound device. Participants will have digital access to the  recording, course manual, post-test, and evaluation form. DVDs are sent through the mail (USPS). Participants will need access to a computer with an internet connection and a DVD drive. Participants will receive an Instruction Sheet and a DVD containing a link to the course manual, the video-recording, and a link to post-test and evaluation form. Participants have two options when completing their post-test and evaluation form; Participants may complete their test and evaluation online, which will require access to a computer and their personal portal account, or they may download, print, and complete the paper test and mail back to Vyne Education. 

ADA
If you require ADA accommodations, please contact Vyne Education at least two weeks before the seminar date or prior to purchasing any online or distance learning products so that arrangements can be made.

Speech-Language Pathologists, Occupational Therapists, Occupational Therapy Assistants, Physical Therapists, Physical Therapist Assistants, Directors of Nursing, Nursing Home Administrators, Registered Nurses, Rehabilitation Nurses, Restorative Nursing Staff, Certified Nursing Assistants, Long Term Care Staff, Activity Directors/Professionals