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