Overview

This course is designed to empower long-term care, assisted living, and memory care professionals with specialized skills and compassionate approaches needed to provide exceptional dementia care in residential settings. This training blends evidence-based practices with real world strategies to enhance resident’s quality of life, improve staff confidence, reduce workplace stress, and promote a dementia-inclusive culture. Through eight interactive modules, participants will explore dementia’s clinical, behavioral, and psychosocial dimensions, gain practical communication and care techniques, learn to respond effectively to neuropsychiatric symptoms, and adapt collaborative care planning approaches that engage families, interdisciplinary teams, and community resources. By the end of the course, learner will be equipped to deliver person-centered care that honors dignity, fosters safety, enhances well-being, and reduces stigma of the disease for individuals living with dementia and their families.