Here is what you will get:

Week 1:

• Overview of the different types of dementias
• How to avoid arguments
• Dealing with over-and-over again questions
• Dealing with irritability
• Group coaching–live questions and answers

Week 2

• What to do when people with dementia refuse help and care
  • General approaches
  • Bathing
  • Dressing
  • Medications
• Agitation/aggression as fear responses
• Group coaching–live questions and answers

Week 3

• Safety issues
  • Driving
  • Wandering and leaving the home
  • Firearms
  • How to know how much supervision a person living with dementia needs
• Group coaching–live questions and answers

Week 4

• Sexual behaviors
  • Unexpected/unwanted advances
  • Strategies for gently handling sexual/unwanted advances
• What is “shadowing” and how to handle it
• What is “sundowning” and how to handle it
• Group coaching–live questions and answers

Week 5

• Medications used in the dementia journey
  • Donepezil (Aricept)
  • Memantine (Namenda)
  • Antidepressants
  • Antipsychotics
• Palliative care approach (and why this is different from hospice)
• In-home care versus a memory care facility
  • How to evaluate a memory care facility
• Group coaching–live questions and answers

More Information

Each session will be an hour; some sessions may last 90 minutes depending on the needs of the group.

Webinars will be recorded. You can go back and listen as many times as you want on your own schedule.

You will help design this course! I will have surveys posted on each weekly lesson page. Your feedback will help me develop and release bonus materials–recorded videos that go beyond what we discuss during the webinars.

You will receive lifetime membership in my CLOSED Facebook Group. This is the place I will be providing monthly live group calls.

Satisfaction guaranteed. If you find out this course is not for you, or you are not happy with it, I will refund your money anytime prior to the second webinar.

Categories: Dementia

Dr. Rita Jablonski

Rita Jablonski, PhD, CRNP, FAAN, FGSA is a nurse practitioner, researcher, tenured professor, and former family caregiver. Her research and practice involve all aspects of dementia management; she is best known for non-drug strategies to address dementia-related behaviors.