Topics Offered For Continuing Education by Jennifer FitzPatrick, MSW, LCSW-C, CSP

• Understanding Different Types Of Dementia: Types, Causes & Treatments
• Family Estrangements In Dementia Care
• What You Need To Know About Lewy Body Dementia
• Early Onset Alzheimer’s Disease: Who, What, When?
• Minimizing Aggressive Behavior In Dementia Patients
• Ethically Handling End of Life Issues With Alzheimer’s Disease & Dementia
• Sexual Behaviors & The Dementia Patient: Best Practices
• What You Need To Know About Frontotemporal Dementia
• Ethical Dilemmas in Dementia Care
• Communicating with Alzheimer’s Patients & their Families: Strategies for Success
• Strategies for Working with Middle to Late Stages of Alzheimer’s Disease & Dementia
• Not Just Bingo: Activities That Improve Quality of Life for Dementia Patients
• Ethical Challenges of Serving a Self-Neglecting Older Client
• Is This Normal? Normal Aging vs. Signs of Dementia
• Beyond Alzheimer’s Disease: The “Other Dementias”
• The New & Resistant Dementia Resident: How To Acclimate
• Travel With A Dementia Patient: How To Guide Families
• The Ethics of Validation & Therapeutic Fibbing In Dementia Care
• Behaviors As Communication? A Dementia Patient’s Attempt To Connect
• Becoming Fluent In The Language of Dementia
• But I’m In My Fifties…The Myths & Realities of Young Onset Dementia
• Ethics and Blended Family Caregiving: Divorce, Step-Families & Shacking Up
• Understanding & Being Understood: Communicating In The Sphere Of Dementia
• Serving Unreasonable Older Adults & Their Families
• The New & Resistant Resident: How to Acclimate
• Hopeful Strategies For Senior Hoarding
• What Is Normal Aging? A Biological, Psychological and Sociological Approach
• Managing Death, Dying, & Grief in Later Years
• Terminating a Healthcare Relationship: Ethical Dilemmas Involved with Discharges
• Ethically Identifying, Correcting and Taking Responsibility for Healthcare Mistakes
• An Examination of Pop Culture’s Impact On Our View of Aging
• Taboo Topics – Helping Adult Kids Discuss Tough Subjects with Their Parents
• Why We Should Look Forward To Getting Older
• Family Estrangements: Helping Caregivers Cope
• Culturally Sensitive Practice With Seniors
• Out of The Closet & In The Nursing Home
• Understanding & Meeting The Special Needs of Older Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Persons
• Effectively Handling Sexuality & Sexual Behaviors in Nursing Homes, Assisted Living Organizations & Adult Day Care Centers
• Sex and The Senior: The Health Professional’s Role
• Sexual Behaviors & The Dementia Patient: Best Practices
• Hopeful Strategies For Senior Hoarding
• Reducing Depression & Anxiety Through Therapeutic Programming
• When It’s Not Just A Tough Day: Identifying Depression In Seniors
• Senior Fear: Exploring Different Types of Anxiety Disorders In Older Adults
• Cognitive & Mental Health Challenges of Older Veterans
• Not Always Intentional: How to Avoid Abuse, Neglect & Exploitation in Long Term Care
• Not Just Bingo: Therapeutic Activities That Improve Quality of Life For Older Adults
• Is This Normal? Normal Aging vs. Signs of Dementia
• Ethics In Working With Older Adults Who Hoard
• You’re Not My Parent! Dealing With Transference & Countertransference In Senior Care: An Ethical Discussion
• The Ethics of Validation & Therapeutic Fibbing In Dementia Care
• Ethical Considerations in Working with Caregivers of Competent Elderly Clients
• Establishing and Maintaining Ethical Boundaries with Residents and Caregivers in a Long Term Care Setting
• Yours, Mine & Ours: Comparing Diverse Ethics From Different Healthcare Disciplines
• Ethical Approaches to Death, Dying and Grief in Long Term Care
• Terminating a Healthcare Relationship: Ethical Dilemmas Involved with Discharges
• Ethically Identifying, Correcting and Taking Responsibility for Healthcare Mistakes
• Ethically Handling End of Life Issues With Alzheimer’s Disease & Dementia
• Ethical Challenges of Serving a Self-Neglecting Older Client
• Contemporary Ethics In Working With Personality Disorders & Seniors
• Establishing Boundaries With Family Caregivers: An Ethical Discussion
• Ethical Perspectives On Cognitive & Mental Health With Seniors
• Ethical Dilemmas In Working With Older Adults
• Ethical Boundaries: The Zone Of Helpfulness In The Professional Caregiver & Patient Relationship

Topics Offered For Continuing Education by Cathy Brock, MA:

• Embracing Diversity and Better Serving Your Patients & Clients as a Team
• Practicing Positive Psychology: When You’re Happy & You know It
• Optimizing the Healthcare Experience for Patients: Improving Service & Clinical Outcomes
• Clinical Relationships: Improving Communication With Patients, Clients and Families
• Patients & Clients Don’t Want Your “Best Guess”: Problem Solving Through Creative and Critical Thinking
• Safety & Seniors: Creating A Comprehensive Plan
• Dealing With Difficult & Challenging Family Members
• Know Thy Patient, Know Thyself: A Self-Assessment Journey For Healthcare Providers

Topics Offered For Continuing Education by Ann Morrision, PhD, RN, CLNC:

• Alzheimer’s Disease: Stages and Strategies for Care
• Dementing Disorders: Which Dementia is it and why is that Important to Know?
• Dementia, Delirium and Depression: How to Recognize Each When They Exist Together
• Cognitive Impairment and Falls: Understanding how Dementia Contributes to Falls
• Research Update in Alzheimer’s Disease: The Cutting Edge
• Protecting and Enhancing Your Memory: Strategies to Improve Cognitive Health
• What You Need To Know About Lewy Body Dementia
• Early Onset Alzheimer’s Disease: Who, What, When?
• Minimizing Aggressive Behavior In Dementia Patients
• Sexual Behaviors & The Dementia Patient: Best Practices
• What You Need To Know About Frontotemporal Dementia
• What Is Normal Aging? A Biological, Psychological and Sociological Approach
• Understanding Different Types Of Dementia: Types, Causes & Treatments
• Effectively Handling Sexuality & Sexual Behaviors in Nursing Homes, Assisted Living Organizations & Adult Day Care Centers
• Senior Fear: Exploring Different Types of Anxiety Disorders In Older Adults
• When It’s Not Just A Tough Day: Identifying Depression In Seniors

Topics offered for Continuing Education by Lesa Lee, MSW, LCSW-C:

• Techniques For Working With Adult Trauma Survivors
• Trauma Across The Lifespan
• Supporting Grandparents Raising Their Grandchildren
• Boundaries & Ethics With Older Adults Who Have Experienced Trauma
• Working through Shame With Older Adults
• Minimizing Compassion Fatigue When Working With Family Caregivers
• Contemporary Ethics In Working With Personality Disorders & Seniors
• Establishing Boundaries With Family Caregivers: An Ethical Discussion
• Mental Health 101 for the Healthcare Professional
• Ethical Boundaries: The Zone Of Helpfulness In The Professional Caregiver & Patient Relationship

Topics offered for Continuing Education by Mary C. Fridley RN, BSN, BC, VDT®-CT:

• Everything You Never Wanted to Know: Alzheimer’s disease
• Invasion of the Body Snatchers: Alzheimer’s Disease and other Dementias
• Understanding Different Types Of Dementia: Types, Causes & Treatments
• The Truth and Nothing but the Truth…Alzheimer’s Disease and other dementias
• Age Happens! What’s normal? What’s not?
• Elder Speak: Communicating effectively with older adults
• All in The Family: Family and parent struggles
• Depression and Suicide and the Older Adult
• Thankful for a Good Night’s Sleep: Sleep as we age
• Brain Attack! AKA Stroke
• Say What? Management skills for caring for an aphasic person
• Shhhh…it’s a Secret: Substance abuse and the older adult
• What You Need To Know About Lewy Body Dementia
• Early Onset Alzheimer’s Disease: Who, What, When?
• Minimizing Aggressive Behavior In Dementia Patients
• Sexual Behaviors & The Dementia Patient: Best Practices
• What You Need To Know About Frontotemporal Dementia