Pinpointing whether your aging clients are presenting with normal age-related cognitive/memory decline, mild cognitive impairment or beginning Alzheimer’s disease is crucial to providing effective interventions that can dramatically improve their safety, mobility, independence and quality of life.
Often overlooked, many co-morbidities and reversible factors can complicate the proper identification of the problem at the root of your client’s cognitive/memory decline—leading you down a frustrating treatment path that fails to get results.
This dynamic and interactive training will end the confusion and leave you confident in your ability to accurately differentiate age related cognitive/memory decline from normal memory loss to Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI); Mild Alzheimer’s Disease through Moderate Alzheimer’s Disease and the behavioral characteristics of each. You will learn:
To prioritize treatment sessions to focus on your client’s functional deficits
Assessments for executive function, fall risk, driving ability and safety
Cognitive stimulation activities, exercise programs and non-medication therapy for depression, sleep issues and mental inactivity
Computer-based cognitive training, compensatory strategies, spaced retrieval and effective and safe environmental interventions
The effects of cognitive/memory decline on executive functions
