Clinical

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 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.

This webinar will explore hoarding in senior living by first defining hoarding and identifying the types of hoarding behaviors.