The Secrets to Interacting & Caring For Those With Dementia

Name: The Secrets to Interacting & Caring For Those With Dementia
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Are you ready to finally understand & manage dementia related behaviors? Then this is for you! For families & Caregivers

Created byTalia Wandrum

Last updated 1/2023

English

What you'll learn

Learn what is affected by the different types of dementia.
Understand how dementia affects your loved one through their eyes.
Learn the progressive stages of dementia and how they affect a person's ability to perform activities.
List seven skills affected by dementia and learn how you can help with each affected skill.
Learn the ADVOCATES approach acronym in detail and how it helps those with dementia feel safe and more willing to cooperate.
Learn what dementia-related behaviors mean.
Learn to understand the verbal and physical messages delivered by someone with dementia and identify strategies to help you connect and communicate @ each stage
Learn the correct approaches to communicate, bathe, feed, dress, etc.
Learn how to take care of yourself by using our caregiving stress tips.

Course content

9 sections • 36 lectures • 2h 22m total length

Introduction8:16

What Is Dementia Quiz
In Their Eyes7:43
What is Dementia?2:18
How to get a diagnosis of dementia?1:51
Warning Signs1:44
Short term memory loss that affects daily life
May repeat stories or questions
May forget appointments
May have difficulty recalling recent events, such as what they ate for breakfast or who they talked to on the phone earlier in the day
May have difficulty remembering & taking medications
May have difficulty learning new things
Difficulty performing familiar tasks
May neglect or forget how to perform usual routine chores such as
cooking and laundry
May neglect or forget about housekeeping, allowing food to spoil
May hoard food and other items
May ruin household tools or equipment such as a blender or lawn
mower by taking them apart to fix them or using them incorrectly
May neglect or overfeed a pet
Changes in personality and behavior
May become more aggressive, or more passive, or just
different from how they've always been
May exhibit bizarre or eccentric behaviors that they have never shown before
May become extremely suspicious, fearful, or paranoid
May say or do embarrassing things
May have an inappropriate emotional response to a situation
Disorientation to time and place
May have confusion about a week, month, season, or year
May have confusion about where they are and how they got there
May get lost driving to familiar places, including finding their way home
May get lost in shopping malls or stores
May get lost walking in their own neighborhood
Poor or decreased judgment
May become vulnerable to scams
May choose inappropriate clothing for the weather
May have difficulty making judgments about their own safety
May have difficulty making decisions and may make some
decisions without any regard for consequences
Problems with numbers and money
May have trouble balancing their checkbook, and paying bills.
May withdraw money from the bank and lose it
May give away large sums of money to telemarketers or be easily scammed
May spend large amounts of money on items they already have or don't need
Loss of Motivation & Initiative
May have difficulty entertaining themselves
May have difficulty planning and executing projects
May become very unmotivated and unwilling to do much other than sitting and watch TV
May sleep more than usual
May have no desire or initiative to do activities
May say they don't feel good to avoid doing activities.
Problems with hygiene
May stop bathing and grooming appropriately
May wear the same item of clothing day after day even when it might be dirty
May neglect their dental care
Problems with language and conversation
May have trouble finding the right word
May have trouble keeping up with a conversation
May respond inappropriately to a conversation
May have difficulty reading or spelling
Misplacing things
May constantly search and even obsess over misplaced items such as keys, purses, wallets, or jewelry
May put things in unusual places like jewelry under the bed or a dirty coffee cup in a dresser drawer
Alzheimer's Facts1:07
A Letter from James1:24
Who Gets Dementia?
Good News?4:22

Requirements

Beginners Level Course

Description

At Dementia Care Advocates, we want to make caregiving easier for you and we will. A caregiver told us she wished that the dementia diagnosis came with an instruction manual because she was left with so many questions. She wanted to know what dementia was, what were the stages, what to expect at each stage, how the brain changes, the symptoms that come with it, etc.

I had the same questions when caring for my grandmother, and so did our whole team. That's why our team created a what's, why's, and how's of dementia online course. This easy-to-understand course is the dementia resource you have been missing. It's time to stop spending your time searching on Google because these courses are a collection of materials gathered from many dementia resources as well as written material by our team, all in one place.

Does this sound familiar?

You would love to keep your loved one home and as independent as possible, but caregiving is becoming tough.
Your loved one is behaving so differently, and you're not sure what is going on
You want to learn a caregiving approach that makes your loved one more willing to cooperate.
You are so stressed trying to care for your loved one that it is negatively affecting you and your family.

Then our course was created just for you!

This course will help you understand what dementia is, what changes will occur to your loved one, how to manage dementia-related symptoms, a caregiving approach that will help your loved one cooperate with care, and most importantly how to avoid caregiving stress and burnout.

Who this course is for:

Families and friends interested in understanding dementia and dementia caregiving

The Secrets to Interacting & Caring For Those With Dementia

What you'll learn

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Course content

Welcome1 lecture • 8min

Understanding Dementia Symptoms8 lectures • 20min

Understanding Dementia Diseases and Brain Changes3 lectures • 9min

Dementia Progression and What to Expect6 lectures • 18min

Caregiving Introduction3 lectures • 16min

The Life-Changing Caregiving Approach4 lectures • 31min

Communication & Dementia Living 1015 lectures • 31min

Recognize and Overcome Caregiver Stress3 lectures • 6min

Conclusion3 lectures • 3min

Requirements

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