Beyond the Diagnosis: Dementia’s Impact On Families and Interventional Strategies for Therapy

Catalog description

This course focuses on providing students with an overview of dementia and issues encountered by families of patients with a dementia diagnosis. Topics include the impact of dementia for individuals/families, psychosocial impact of caring for a person with dementia (with an emphasis on stress), relationship issues, and social issues. At the end of the course, students will have working knowledge of the process of dementia, stages of dementia and their correlation to challenges faced by families, community resources, and theoretical models and useful interventional strategies (i.e. advocacy training) for working with individuals and families impacted by dementia.