Navigating Dementia: Essential Skills for Care Teams
Navigating Dementia: Essential Skills for Care Teams
Description of Activity
For: Nurses, Social Workers, Pharmacists, Speech Language Pathologists, Occupational Therapists, and others!
This 6-module online series covers an overview of dementias, Age-Friendly communication with persons living with dementia, communicating with the healthcare team, referring patients and family care partners to community resources, and more.
After taking this course, participants will be able to
- Recognize the symptoms of different types of dementias.
- Differentiate between dementia vs delirium.
- Explain how a dementia diagnosis impacts the patient and family.
- Demonstrate the ability to communicate with a person who has dementia in an Age-Friendly manner.
- Increase the ability to communicate a person's care plan with the healthcare team.
- Increase the ability to refer patients and family care partners to community resources.
In accordance with the requirements of the ACCME's Standards for Integrity and independence in Accredited Continuing Education, each person involved in the development or delivery of this CME activity has been asked to disclose any financial relationships with ineligible companies (defined as: any entity whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients). In addition, all members of the Continuing professional Development office have nothing to disclose. All of the financial relationships listed for these individuals have been mitigated.
PROGRAM PLANNING COMMITTEE
Leah Brandis, M.P.H. Candidate - Nothing to Disclose
Laura Byerly, M.D. - Nothing to Disclose
Bryanna De Lima, MPH - Nothing to Disclose
Kat Thoreson - Nothing to Disclose
INSTRUCTORS/AUTHORS
Leah Brandis, M.P.H. Candidate - Nothing to Disclose
Laura Byerly, M.D. - Nothing to Disclose
Katie Drago, M.D. - Nothing to Disclose
Sarah Foidel, OTD, OTR/L - Nothing to Disclose
You will be asked to complete a short registration form, then the link to the course will be emailed to you.
Each module takes approximately 20-30 minutes to complete. There are 6 modules in the course.
Plan for 2-3 hours to complete all six modules to receive continuing education credits and completion certificate.
Oregon Health & Science University School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
OHSU School of Medicine designates this enduring material for a maximum of 3.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
- Original Launch Date – July 1, 2025
- Content Review Date – July 1, 2025
- Termination Date - June 30, 2027