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Superskilled: Reducing Turnover and Increasing Retention |
1.00 |
The goal of this course is to help you gain understanding and insight on the importance of promoting life skills training for agencies employing home health care paraprofessionals. Life skills training is a way to help the home health care agencies reduce turnover and increase retention of the home health care paraprofessional. |
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Suicide in Older Adults |
1.00 |
In this course you will learn about: The demography of aging and suicide; Risk and protective factors; and approaches to prevention, including indicated, selective, and universal prevention. |
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Stress First Aid for Long-Term Care Staff |
1.00 |
As an essential worker during a pandemic, your work stress is accompanied by the stressors in your personal life, as well as concerns about your family’s health. As staff in a long-term care facility, you also have the stress of caring for vulnerable individuals with serious medical and cognitive issues who may be reacting poorly to extended social isolation. This is unprecedented in long-term care, and it requires ongoing, effective stress management. Stress First Aid offers a flexible framework of tools for addressing stress reactions that can hopefully reduce the likelihood that these reactions will develop into more severe or long-term problems. |
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Pain Self Management |
1.00 |
Many older adults suffer from pain that is so bothersome it interferes with their daily activities. Often the pain is chronic, sometimes persisting for many months or even years, and is associated with depression, isolation, and decreased quality of life. This program covers five techniques that can be helpful in taking the edge off of pain to improve life quality. While this presentation is designed for home health aides, nursing assistants, and personal care aides, any member of the care team (including families!) can help older adults learn these strategies to help control their pain.
Presenter Katherine Beissner is Professor of Physical Therapy, and Gerontology Institute Fellow at Ithaca College. Her primary clinical interest is the improvement of function in older adults. Recent research has focused on the impact of using pain self-management strategies on the function, activity level, and quality of life of older adults. |
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Mindfulness |
1.00 |
The goal of this course is to educate caregivers about the benefits of incorporating mindfulness into the activities of elderly care patients. Practicing mindfulness can promote improvements in both physical and psychological symptoms as well as positive changes in health attitudes and behaviors in both elderly care patients and caregivers alike.
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Introduction to Aging with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities |
0.50 |
The course presents a general overview of aging with intellectual and developmental disabilities, as well as an overview of specific disabilities, such as Down syndrome, cerebral palsy, and epilepsy. |
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Geriatric Oncology |
1.00 |
The goal of this course is to review the role of geriatric assessment in the older cancer population and how geriatric assessment can be used to predict chemotherapy toxicity and influence decision-making in this population. |
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Geriatric Dentistry |
0.50 |
In this course you will learn about six topics of oral health for older adults. These topics include the physiologic changes with age, geriatric oral pathology, preventive care, newer treatment modalities, relationships between oral and general health in older adults, and current research in geriatric dentistry.
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Geriatric Assessment |
1.25 |
As part of an interdisciplinary team working with older adults, it is important to understand the different parts that make up a comprehensive geriatric assessment. This course will provide you with information about the tools used in a comprehensive geriatric assessment that are chosen based on identified needs and areas of concern for individual patients. |
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Elder Abuse Prevention |
1.00 |
In this course, you will learn about the prevalence of elder abuse and define the scope of this hidden epidemic. You will learn about the different types of abuse, your role in caring for elders, how to recognize signs of abuse, what to do if abuse is suspected, and how to help prevent it.
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Differential Diagnosis of Dementia |
1.00 |
At the end of this course, you will be able to:
Define Alzheimer's disease, and identify its risk factors.
Examine the differences between Alzheimer's disease and dementia.
Explore the pathology and the clinical presentation of Alzheimer’s disease, frontotemporal dementia and dementia with Lewy bodies.
Examine the diagnostic tests and tools used in the diagnosis of dementia. |
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Dementia and Oral Health |
1.00 |
Dementia is one of the main causes of disability among older adults. Alzheimer’s disease is the most common form of dementia. The oral health of patients with Alzheimer’s disease can be worse than that of those without dementia. Therefore, maintaining good oral health is an important and integral part of their general health. The purpose of this educational module is to provide an overview of oral health and the importance of oral care for patients with Alzheimer’s disease. |
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Connection Planning in Long-Term Care |
1.00 |
This module includes training for staff and providers in the importance of social connection and practical strategies learners can use to promote social connectedness in long-term care. The module explains how to implement Connection Planning, a brief, person-centered behavioral intervention for developing resident care plans that address social connection. Connection Planning includes evidence-informed, practical strategies to promote meaningful social connection among residents in long-term care. |
