Enhance Person-Centered Care with CARES Dementia Care Training Programs
November is National Alzheimer’s Disease Awareness Month and a good time to evaluate staff dementia care training programs to enhance person-centered dementia care and reduce antipsychotic use.
- CARES® offers AHCA/NCAL members exclusive savings on all CARES® dementia training and certification programs for long term care professionals and staff members.
The introductory course, CARES® Dementia 5-Step Method™ online training and certification, is recognized by the Alzheimer’s Association for successfully incorporating the evidence-based Dementia Care Practice Recommendations in the following topic areas: Alzheimer’s and dementia, person-centered care, assessment and care planning, activities of daily living, and behaviors and communication.
Why it matters: A key to reducing off-label antipsychotic use is having staff specifically trained in alternative approach to dementia-related behavior.
- CARES® has been proven to reduce the use of antipsychotics. CARES® trains your staff in the evidence-based CARES dementia 5-step method, a person-centered approach to dementia care, so that they know how to identify individual triggers, mitigate causes of behaviors, and intervene with non-pharmacological approaches that support each resident’s quality of life.
How CARES® is different: This is the only dementia care training to make extensive use of actual video footage of real residents and real staff members (no actors) for an authentic virtual training experience.
- View a free five-minute preview of each program here to learn more about each training.
CARES online programs include:
- CARES® Dementia 5-Step Method™
- CARES® Dementia Safety Topics™
- CARES® Dementia-Related Behavior™
- CARES® Activities of Daily Living™
- CARES® End-of-Life Dementia Care™
- CARES® Serious Mental Illness™
- CARES® Elder Abuse Prevention™
- CARES Dementia Basics (In Spanish)
- CARES® Dementia 5-Step Method for Families™
Exclusive AHCA/NCAL Member Savings: AHCA/NCAL members have two great ways to save.
- For individual registrations, use promo code AHCA100at checkout and save $100 off regular registration prices.
- For site license purchases, save even more with the AHCA15promo code and receive 15% off all site license purchase prices.
CARES® is easy to use, can be accessed from any computer, tablet, or mobile device, and can be started and stopped as often as users wish.
- Contact AHCA/NCAL’s partner HCI at (952) 928-7722 or support@hcinteractive.com with any questions about the training programs, and remember to use the exclusive member promo codes AHCA100 or AHCA15 when ordering for tremendous savings.
