Monday, May 22, 2017
- Define Post Traumatic Stress, how it impacts dementia, and behaviors that manifest as a result
- Describe triggers in detail, for both staff members and residents
- Outline a plan for supporting and communicating with the resident
- Highlight the most commonly used medications for PTS, and the military and medical history that must be considered
Track: Administrative and Executive
Samantha Hollister, CDP, President, CERTUS Senior Living
*This session has not been approved for ASWB credit
- Develop a better understanding of what Transformative Leadership is and how it can influence you and your team.
- Explore the difference between Authoritarian Leadership, Democratic Leadership, Laissez-faire Leadership, and Participatory Leadership.
- Learn how you can create a culture of CEOs wherein ever associate is a Participatory Leader.
- Explore how to use the psychology of human behavior to your advantage.
- Prepare to put your ideas into action through a better understanding of an exemplary organization’s infrastructure and how you can think as a CEO regardless of your career level within an organization.
Track: Clinical and DON
E02 - Practical Medication Management in the Patient with Dementia
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) mandate to limit use of pharmaceutical interventions in memory care is pushing care providers to go beyond simple medication management, to take on a philosophy of medication stewardship.
In this session, visit with award-winning, board-certified physician, Dr. Daniel Haimowitz, as he discussed practical strategies for medication management in patients with dementia. Listen in as we understand, categorize, and outline straegies for medication reduction, family communication strategies, and how to approach these concepts throughout the interdisciplinary team.
Learning Objectives:
- Emphasize importance of prognostication and communication with family
- Review commonly unrecognized Adverse Drug Events in demented patients
- Present concepts of polypharmacy and medication reduction
- Discuss medication use in common medical conditions occurring with dementia
- Give practical medication reduction techniques for the Interdisciplinary Team
- Engage in a collaborative art experience designed for people with dementia
- Learn about strength-based visual arts and museum visit programs built on genuine intergenerational connections
- Understand current research regarding the quality of life benefits for older adults
- Take home actionable next steps to initiate new arts programming for people with dementia
- List signs and symptoms associated with various dementias
- Explain how to diagnose the various types of dementia and different kinds of diagnostic tests.
- Outline the latest up-to-date treatments for the various types of dementia
- Examine diagnostic testing protocols for dementia, emphasizing a focus on meaningful data and results
- Demonstrate the impact of arthritis and neuropathy on persons with dementia and how they impact quality of life
- Examine the challenges hearing loss creates for residents who experience memory impairment
- Illustrate visual impairment's influence on seeing color contrasts and how general darkening of eyesight can create barriers for certain activities
- Explore and discuss behavioral patterns common in those with dementia, such as hoarding, and what processes in the brain create these behaviors
Track: Administrative and Executive
E06 - Dementia Design: Experiential & Environmental Research Supporting Safer Living Spaces
Learning Objectives:
- Summarize ways environmental and operational factors can affect dementia residents
- Discuss design elements that can be incorporated into a new or existing facility
- Explain why "negative behaviors" aren't really what they seem
- List practical takeaways for applying these design principles to future projects
Track: Clinical and DON
E07 - Behavioral Interventions: Supporting Residents and Team Members Through Challenging Interactions
- Discuss how to create a behavior intervention process to assist teams in uncovering and understandings the why behind the behavior
- Demonstrate the tools to set up intervention protocols in place with a behavior map
- Outline the reentry process into the community after a person has had a Geripsych stay.
- Illustrate what teams can do to support the reentry process. We will review what do we need from the Geripsych hospital and what they need from us to establish a solid return back to our community.
This lecture and interactive session aims to explore how sensory stimulation techniques within the Dance/Movement Therapy (DMT) session function as a catalyst for promoting wellness, improved cognition, and quality of life for individuals with a dementia diagnosis. The learning objectives listed below, aim to provide the caregiver, administrator or professional with not only the informed knowledge of “why”, but also the practical knowledge of “how.”
During the interactive portion, participants will be guided through some movement sequences and verbal processing, as well as introduced to sensory items that are used within DMT sessions. Various applications for this work as a complementary modality for this population (within both healthcare and community settings) will be discussed and explored.
Learning Objectives:
- To define Dance/movement therapy (DMT) and its use with the dementia population (overview of the structure of a DMT session with this population; frequently asked questions; goals of DMT session)
- To review the neurophysiology of DMT (what happens physiologically during a DMT session) and dance/movement’s implications on the brain and memory
- Theoretical implications of DMT (review how modality is informed)
- Therapeutic value of DMT (review of the positive outcomes of this modality; share therapeutic techniques used with this population)
- To experience how DMT and Sensory Stimulation effectively promote mind and body connection, thus improving physical, cognitive and emotional wellness- as well as, experience how DMT influences the physical, emotional, and cognitive areas of function through engagement of the sensory systems
- Explore body language & nonverbal communication’s role in initiation of & prevention of residents emotional states
- Experiential (participants will be guided through some movement sequences and verbal processing, as well as introduced to sensory items used within DMT sessions)
Tuesday, May 23, 2017
- List variations of dementia, highlighting the top symptoms of concern related to mobility and motor skills
- Outline health benefits associated with yoga on residents living with dementia
- Model a modified yoga techniques and regiments to safely engage residents
- Define impact of yoga on therapy on overall quality of life
Morning Keynote Presentation
P02 - Treatment by Design: Creating Meaning, Purpose, and Success
This session will address industry-wide challenges related to environmental design, training, associate empowerment, and organizational culture. By exploring behavioral psychology and neuroscience, attendees will experience participatory learning and learn how to deploy interventions that influence behavioral cognitive domains (BCDs), thus, fostering an engaged culture. In this session, attendees will develop a better understanding of the correlation between approach (our behavior) and effect (resident, associate, and family member behavior), as well as how clinical and non-clinical interventions work together. This session will also briefly examine a 21st century approach to design known as The CERTUS MAPS™ program. Attendees will leave with practical tools and interventions to improve the quality of life for those living with memory loss.
Learning Objectives:
- Develop a better understanding of how the design of a memory care environment influences cognitive function and behavior.
- Learn the difference between practice-based, research-based, and evidence-based memory care approaches, interventions, and programs.
- Learn how to create a participatory environment that includes residents, family members, associates and professionals.
- Learn about some of the neurological benefits of building a sense of community and belonging by providing meaning, propose, and successful outcomes.
- Learn how to use behavioral psychology and neuroscience to your advantage in leadership and community engagement initiatives.
- Become aware of the influences of life engagement on the brain and body.
E08 - The Lantern at Madison's Approach: SVAYUS - A Revelation to a Unique World
- Outline a functional understanding and knowledge of Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia
- Review the principles of SVAYUS design at the Lantern, and next generation environmental design for Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia
- Identify key components of SVAYUS functional assessment
- List SVAYUS functional outcomes related to Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias
- Discuss the foundation of SVAYUS personality-centric therapeutic care
- Explain SVAYUS Rehabilitation and treatment methodologies to facilitate basic ADL and cognitive functions
The world of memory care and memory loss is rarely outlined clearly in black and white, but is instead a constant gray area when it comes to consent and decision making. When a resident is experiencing escalating cognitive impairment and loss of function, there is a clear and definitive difference between competency and decision making capacity (DMC)--and in the eyes of the law this can truly make all of the difference in care.
In this session, join national long-term care legal expert Alan Horowitz, who has represented both the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and a host of care providers, as he explores the case studies that have set a precedent for modern memory care programs. In this fast-paced plenary session, we explore the top assessments for determining DMC, the nuances of dementias that impact DMC, the top case studies that have defined these issues, and what organizations need to know in order to avoid future legal proceedings.
Learning Objectives:
- Recognize the potential legal risks associated with cognitively impaired residents who are sexually active
- Outline effective strategies geared at protecting residents’ rights while ensuring resident safety
- Review lessons learned from recent civil and criminal cases involving sexuality and dementia
- Illustrate the importance of developing and implementing appropriate policies and procedures
- Examine the use of “informed consent” and other alternatives in the context of sexuality and dementia
- Recognize the importance of performing ongoing assessments as decision-making capacity (DMC) waxes and wanes in care
E09 - Understanding Communication in Dementia Care
This workshop will aim to highlight the importance of understanding the impact dementia and related illness has on a person's ability to communicate. As a result, care partners and care professionals may need to shift their communication and gain insight into the variety of ways individuals living with dementia may communicate.
Through this workshop, we will look to reframe typical “problem behaviors” sometimes exhibited by individuals living with dementia as expressions of need and explore the myriad ways individuals with dementia commonly communicate their needs, especially as the illness progresses. Participants will explore strategies to proactively meet needs, as well as develop tools to de-escalate and diffuse situations if they arise.
Learning Objectives:
- Understand the ways in which dementia can impact a person's ability to communicate.
- Assess how “behaviors” exhibited by individuals with dementia are a method of communication and expressions of need
- Consider the range of physical and emotional needs individuals have and how dementia effects individuals’ abilities to express these needs
This unique panel of people living with dementia will discuss how they strive to have meaningful lives, and what support they’ve needed. More importantly, they’ll show you how to understand what your own residents with dementia want (whether or not they can speak), so that any staff member can learn to provide support and care that will make those people’s lives meaningful and sweet, too. Bonus: These strategies transfer well from professional interactions to daily living, improving everyone’s quality of life.
- Create a live dialogue representing those living with dementia, creating an understanding, relationship, and empathy among caregivers and supporters
- Illustrate the difference between the concepts of support and care
- Identify the rights of individuals living with dementia, and the ethical considerations around communications and interactions
- Identify interactions and areas of opportunity to improve quality of relationships and life
- Demonstrate the importance of effective communication with individuals impacted by dementia
- Planning and implementing effective huddles (10 minute, on the floor trainings of a specific skill)
- Three crucial methods to take into account when conducting observations and gathering reliable data
- Identifying with management effective indicators that data will support and define
- Strategies for implementation of data-driven decision making for leadership
- Identify alternative person-centered methods for bathing a person diagnosed with dementia
- Distinguish factors negatively and positively impacting the bathing experience
- Demonstrate techniques for setting the stage and executing a positive bathing experience that maintains dignity and promotes independence
- Discover bathing strategies for preventing and defusing resident resistance to bathing
Closing Keynote Presentation - Experiential Session
P03 - Sound Medicine: The Neurology of Singing and Its Impact on Well-Being
Linda Maguire, MHS, MA-CBN, BMus, Opera Singer, Musician, Neurologist, Researcher, Author
Among the brain networks for those living with a dementia diagnosis, music has a clear and undeniable impact -- and combining the stimulation of engagement with music presents an even greater clinical value. Singing, specifically singing certain songs selected for their therapeutic value, can have a profound impact on battling depression, cognition, providing a sense of power to the resident.
In this engaging presentation, prepare your own concierto with Linda Maguire, renowned Opera Singer and performer, turned behavioral neuroscientist, as she shares the concepts of vocal resonnance, her team's latest field research, and a few singing lessons to take home.
Learning Objectives:
- Define breathing techniques, vocal resonance, and therapeutic aspects of singing
- Outline neurological value to singing music, with an emphasis on cognition and wellness
- Demonstrate singing exercises and songs that open neural pathways and stimulate memories
