{"id":12930,"date":"2021-04-14T16:01:45","date_gmt":"2021-04-14T20:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rigec-draft\/?p=12930"},"modified":"2023-02-02T10:01:25","modified_gmt":"2023-02-02T15:01:25","slug":"understanding-the-different-types-of-dementia-and-best-approaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rigec\/understanding-the-different-types-of-dementia-and-best-approaches\/","title":{"rendered":"Understanding the Different Types of Dementia and Best Approaches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Presented November 5, 2020<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Anyone living with and\/or caring for a person with dementia needs an understanding of the disease process and how it impacts the person in order to assist, care for, and\/or provide a positive environment sensitive to that person\u2019s specific needs. Having a toolbox of knowledge, tips and techniques enables everyone living with dementia (family \/ caregivers \/ individuals themselves) have more positive outcomes along the dementia journey.<\/p>\n<h3>Learning Objectives<\/h3>\n<p><em>Upon completion of this activity, participants will be able to:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Identify roles that help support and understand the manifestation of need or distress of someone challenged with memory loss.<\/li>\n<li>Discuss best practices around supporting and intervening challenging behaviors for patients, and caregivers.<\/li>\n<li>Practice how to conduct a behavior intervention process using a team approach map.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Presenter<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Joan F. Wright, CDP, CADDCT; Dementia Care Specialty Program Director, NVNA and Hospice<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Accreditation\/Designations<\/h3>\n<p>Certificates of attendance are available free of charge* for those who 1.) Attend the entire live or recorded webinar session and 2.) Complete and submit the required Program Evaluation Survey. Contact <a href=\"mailto:rigec@etal.uri.edu\">rigec@etal.uri.edu<\/a> with any CE related questions.<\/p>\n<h3>Participate Now!<\/h3>\n<div class=\"cl-tiles halves\">\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><a class=\"cl-button   prominent\" href=\"https:\/\/www.surveymonkey.com\/r\/cdmaapadrdm1reg\" title=\"Register\">Register<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><a class=\"cl-button   prominent\" href=\"https:\/\/www.surveymonkey.com\/r\/MAPCON-dem_Eval\" title=\"Program Evaluation\">Program Evaluation<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"cl-panel-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Supplemental education in Alzheimer\u2019s disease and related dementias.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2097,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[103,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alzheimers-disease-and-related-dementias","category-professional-education"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rigec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rigec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rigec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rigec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2097"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rigec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12930"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rigec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15009,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rigec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12930\/revisions\/15009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rigec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rigec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rigec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}