Self-Care Techniques for Alzheimer’s Caregivers
Learn essential self-care techniques tailored for Alzheimer’s caregivers, addressing their unique challenges with practical strategies.
About this course
More than half of all nursing home residents, or more than 2 million long-term residents, have Alzheimer’s disease or other conditions causing dementia. Approximately 1.2 million professional caregivers provide this long-term and costly care. The available literature suggests that many professional caregiving issues are similar to that of family caregiving including physical exhaustion, emotional depletion, and grief at the loss of their patients. In addition, professional caregivers encounter other issues that family caregivers may not experience such as work overload, increased demands for efficiency within managed health care environments, job burnout, and staff turnover. This course examines the stressors inherent to working with Alzheimer’s patients and methods of self care for these professionals.
Course Accreditation
This course is approved for the following professions. You can get more details on each profession by clicking on it.
Instructors
Past President of the Montana Gerontology Society, Former Assistant Professor Montana State University. Former Co-Director of Montana Center on Rural Aging. Recipient of a grant from Walden University to conduct qualitative research on people over the age of 85. Consultant on a USDA-funded grant aimed at expanding geriatric education for paramedics in Montana. Interests: Aging and issues related to older adults, anticipatory mourning in the family of Alzheimer’s patients, pain management in multiple sclerosis.
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