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The Aliviado Dementia Care Program provides learners with practical, evidence-based, best practices on how to support persons living with dementia and their caregivers. The program helps the learner understand dementia, how to communicate effectively with persons living with dementia and their caregivers, and address common challenges including behavioral symptoms, weight loss and eating and feeding challenges, and avoiding hospitalizations and ED visits, in a person and caregiver centered fashion. The program is 4 hours in length and is broken up into short modules. Learners are also provided a toolbox of educational materials and care plans which can be used, putting into everyday practice the evidence discussed in the modules.
Download the references, handouts, and graphics below:
Aliviado Caregiver Materials English.zip
Aliviado Caregiver Materials Spanish.zip
NPS Algorithm General Graphic.pdf
Courses are listed in a recommended order of completion, although they can be completed in any order desired.
- Overview of Dementia
- Assessing and Managing Pain in Persons Living with Dementia
- Pain Assessment in Persons Living with Dementia
- Managing Pain in Persons Living with Dementia
- Assessing and Managing Behavioral and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia
- Behavioral and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia Assessment
- Apathy in Persons Living with Dementia
- Depression in Persons Living with Dementia
- Agitation and Aggression in Persons Living with Dementia
- Delusions and Hallucinations in Persons Living with Dementia
- Sleep Symptoms in Persons Living with Dementia
- Motor Behaviors in Persons Living with Dementia
- Disinhibition in Persons Living with Dementia
- Eating and Feeding in Persons Living with Dementia
- Delirium Superimposed on Dementia
- Care Transitions
- Foundations of Transitional Care for Persons Living with Dementia
- Implementing Transitional Care Plans for Persons Living with Dementia
- Communicating in the Context of Dementia
- Communication with and Support of Persons Living with Dementia
- Communicating with other members of the interprofessional care team
Available Credit
- 4.00 ACEAs a Jointly Accredited Organization, Rush University Medical Center is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved continuing education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. Social workers completing this course receive 4.00 general continuing education credits.