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Best Practices in Hospice Care for Advanced Dementia
Price range: $45.00 through $390.00
Dementia due to Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Disorders are now among the top reasons people are admitted to hospice care in the United States. This course focuses on the challenges hospice and end-of-life care providers encounter while caring for this population. Beyond exploring the role of hospice in dementia care, the course explores how interdisciplinary teams can best support patients, their care partners, and staff in caring for persons with dementia and educating communities about the services hospice and palliative care can offer.
Registration Options
- Individual: on-demand viewing for one person.
- Organization/company: on-demand viewing within a single location.
- Organization + community license: on-demand viewing for unlimited viewers within service area.
Continuing Education
Professional CE hours included with registration.
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Learning Objectives
At the conclusion of the course, participants will be able to:
- Describe briefly the nature and course of Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD), as well as the number of individuals affected, and the emotional, financial, and societal costs.
- Recognize the challenges surrounding ADRD for hospice and end-of-life care providers.
- Discuss the grief of persons living with dementia (PWLD) as it is experienced in the stages of dementia and care approaches; identify ways to assist family members as they grieve throughout the illness and after a dementia death, noting factors that may complicate grief.
- Explain the demands that caring for PLWD may place on hospice staff and effective strategies for self-care.
- Identify interventive strategies for PLWD and families during the end-stage of dementia, including communication tools that are helpful in supporting families navigating dementia and dementia care.
- Demonstrate sensitivity and responsiveness to cultural differences that influence patient and family reactions to dementia, especially at the end of life.
