Dementia Care: Understanding Alzheimer's Disease

Course Code: REL-PAC-0-DCUAD

Hours: 0.5

Type: Online Course

Content Expiration Date: 12/31/2025

Learning Objectives:
Describe Alzheimer’s disease.
List 3 ways Alzheimer’s disease changes a person’s behavior and abilities.
Describe ways to care for someone with Alzheimer’s disease.

Outline:
Section 1: Introduction

About This Course

Learning Objectives

Section 2: Alzheimer’s Disease

What Is Alzheimer’s Disease?

Warning Signs

Changes in Behaviors

Changes in Abilities

Caring for Someone with Alzheimer’s Disease

Early Stage

Middle Stage

Late Stage

Other Needs

Review

Summary

Section 3: Conclusion

Summary

Course Contributor

References

Congratulations!

Staff Writer: Jennifer W. Burks, M.S.N., R.N.

Jennifer has over 30 years of clinical and teaching experience, and her areas of expertise are critical care and home health. She is certified as an OASIS Specialist- Clinical (COS-C) and is a Curriculum Designer in post-acute care for Relias. She earned her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from The University of Virginia in 1993 and her Master of Science in Nursing from The University of North Carolina, Greensboro in 1996. Her professional practice in education is guided by a philosophy borrowed from Florence Nightingale’s Notes on Nursing, “I do not pretend to teach her how, I ask her to teach herself, and for this purpose, I venture to give her some hints.”

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Course Delivery Method and Format
Asynchronous Distance Learning with interactivity which includes quizzes with questions/answers, and posttests.