Summary

Synopsis

Are you responsible for providing care to persons with dementia? Have you ever had to deal with difficult behaviors and situations when caregiving? Understanding and identifying the symptoms of dementia and developing a specific behavioral management model are essential to the improvement of quality of care in caregiving.

Objectives

• Identify the symptoms of dementia
• Describe a challenging behavior
• Use a behavioral management model to handle difficult behaviors
• Apply the ABC approach and analyze a challenging behavior using a tracking form
• Identify key information to reflect a person-centered approach
• Classify information according to behaviors, emotions, and interventions

Outline

• Acknowledgement
• Introduction
• Overview
• Objectives
• Characteristics of Dementia
• Understanding Dementia
• Symptoms
• Approaching People with Dementia
• Amnesia
• Aphasia
• Agnosia
• Apraxia
• Checkpoint I
• Additional Symptoms
• Executive Functions
• Apathy
• Altered Perception
• Changes in Personality
• Checkpoint II
• The ABCs of Behavior
• Meaningful Behaviors
• What are the ABCs?
• The ABC Approach and Teamwork
• The Behavior Tracking Form
• Analyzing the Behavior Tracking Form
• The Components
• The Person with Dementia
• The Environment
• Other Persons’ Behavior
• Behavior Management
• The Behavior Management Plan
• Using the Plan
• Final Checkpoint