Learn more about the Caregiving Skills - Dementia Care you need to work effectively with clients who are suffering from dementia. This free online Dementia Care course from Alison teaches proper dementia care. Dementia refers to a spectrum of brain disorders that involve difficulty with memory and thinking.

A Free Certificate Course On How To Care For Your Loved Ones As Dementia Progresses.

Caring for the terminally ill and the elderly is an emotional, complex, challenging and rewarding profession. The job requires trained, compassionate caregivers to handle the situation with grace and sensitivity. This caregiving course explains how to supply quality care to those who are suffering in the grip of illness or are approaching the end of their lives. We also show you how to provide support and comfort to worried and grieving families.

This free online course provides guidelines on medication metabolism, prescriptions and administration for caregivers.

The Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner program prepares nurses to provide advanced practice in acute care settings through a program of study focused on the care of acutely ill patients and complex chronically ill patients and their families in high acuity specialty areas including critical care, trauma surgery, general surgery, plastic surgery, and hospital medicine.

This course provides the opportunity to develop an understanding of different perspectives of death and the impact it has on individuals. It covers the aims and principles of end of life care, communication factors and how to access a range of support services in end of life care.

Gain a unique insight into dementia through the stories, symptoms and science behind four less common diagnoses.

Providing and advocating for social services for older individuals and their families.Developing service systems to address emerging social problems such as homelessness, substance use, and issues within the American criminal justice system. Connect children, youth, and families with a broad range of preventive, protective, and other social services.

The gerontology program prepares students to consider work in the field of aging.The study of gerontology provides students with a broad, multidisciplinary perspective to examine the aging process and to understand the significance of age in biological, social, cultural, psychological, and political processes.

The degree has a theoretical-practical approach, which provides tools theoretical, methodological, and with emphasis on the articulation with gerontological practices in the different fields of professional work, from a multidimensional perspective and interdisciplinary. Aims to achieve comprehensive training on the basis of construction of knowledge and updated resources about Gerontology. It is oriented to professionals from various disciplines in order to respond to their training demands in the gerontological area, to favor the development of creative and critical capacities according to to changes in the socio-cultural context and to the growing aging of the population. The interest is 1) train and update students in approach models, lines of research and intervention in problems related to caring, attention, counseling and development of the elderly and their family and social environment; and 2) train in proposals for activities of diagnosis, planning, intervention, evaluation, management of prevention programs for risky conditions and/or behaviors and promoting healthy aging, in order to contribute to the improvement of quality life of the elderly, and the development of professional teams in Gerontology.

Based on a person-centred approach, you have a particular focus on the activity's significance for meaningfulness and increased quality of life. You also work with planning and evaluating activities, both individual activities, and group activities. Finally, you will focus on relationship-building factors, including the importance of communication in meaningful professional activities in people with dementia.