Clinical

In this session, the presenters will review the factors that contribute to the SLP component of PDPM, discuss strategies used to communicate with the interdisciplinary team regarding SLP related comorbidities, and explain how SLP documentation can be used to support accurate Minimum Data Set (MDS) coding.

Caregivers and nursing home staff play a pivotal role in minimizing social isolation, loneliness, depression, and behaviors in persons with dementia.  Isolation does not need to equal decline!  This session will review practical and cost-effective strategies care providers can implement to impact these areas. 

In this session, participants will learn how sensory stimulation impacts the person living with dementia.  Participants will learn how to set up a room or a space in their community using best practice design principles.  This session will offer a “design on a dime” approach to a sensory room and demonstrate to providers how to set up a room or space of their own so they can further impact the quality of life of persons with dementia without relying on pharmacology.

Using Teepa Snow’s Positive Approach to Care (PAC) Information, Retha and Lindsey will work through the basics of how the left and right side of the brain functions in a person who is living with dementia. 

This program focuses on behavioral health issues that are on the rise due to social isolation from COVID-19 and will teach you strategies for early intervention and improving residents’ quality of life.

This webinar will review the background and scope of respiratory illness especially as it relates to older adult populations.

This webinar provides an in-depth review of treatment ideas, home safety strategies to integrate into client care, ways to integrate technology into treatment sessions, and documentation principles for in-room sessions.

This presentation will discuss the characteristics that support a resident requiring skilled care in a skilled nursing facility.

This presentation will discuss the importance of section GG and how nursing documentation is integrated into therapy goal setting.

This presentation will discuss the documentation needed to support the coding of the non-therapy ancillary component on the MDS.

This presentation will describe etiologies that may be mistaken for pressure damage, including chronic tissue injury (CTU), Kennedy Terminal Ulcer (KTU)/skin failure, moisture associated skin damage (MASD), deep tissue pressure injury (DTPI), and others.