Person-Centered Care Approaches for Adults At-Risk for Dementia
Presented by Dr. Alyssa Lanzi, Ph.D., CCC-SLP
Course description
As the number of individuals living with dementia from Alzheimer’s disease continues to increase, there is a need for lifestyle approaches that are focused on prevention and wellness in older adults at-risk for dementia. This presentation will provide an overview of counseling+ activities that can be delivered by speech-language pathologists to support older adults at-risk for dementia. Counseling+ activities go beyond traditional assessment and treatment approaches and focus on counseling, collaboration, prevention, and wellness. This presentation will provide hands-on free resources that can be used by clinicians to support their delivery of counseling+ activities alongside assessment and treatment approaches. This presentation will also discuss a novel assessment tool, the Functional External Memory Aid Tool that can be used to support person-centered treatment planning.
Learning Outcomes
Describe differences between mild cognitive impairment, dementia, and Alzheimer’s disease
Summarize counseling+ techniques that can be incorporated into memory testing
Describe person-centered assessment approaches for compensatory treatment planning
Venue
Registration
Registration is required. There is no cost to attend.
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Agenda
8:30- 9:00 Check-in
9:00-10:00- Counseling+ for those at risk for Dementia
Understanding terminology - Clinical Syndrome (e.g, MCI) vs. Medical Diagnosis (e.g., AD)
Understanding Alzheimer's disease and related dementias
Resources to share with patients, families, and providers
Providing counseling to help reduce to risk of dementia through modifiable risk factors
10:00-10:15 break
10:15-11:45- Rethinking our "memory" screening
What is the purpose of the memory screening?
Tips and trick for enhancing your memory screening
Discovering mild deficits
Role of PROMs
Appling Principles of Encoding--> Storage --> Retrieval to Improve Your Cognitive Assessment
Sharing news with patients, families, and providers
11:45-12:45pm Lunch
12:45-2:15- Functional External Memory Aid Tool
Learn how to administer the FEMAT
Learn how to interpret the FEMAT
2:15-2:30pm Break
2:30-4:00 Compensatory Cognitive Rehabilitation
Starting with goals to drive behavior change
Why compensation can be used to support iADLs at home and at work
Why do we need systematic and structured approaches?
4:00-4:15 Q&A, Final Survey
Financial Disclosures
Salary from the University of Delaware; PI of a grant from the National Institute on Aging:
NIH/NIA 1K23AG070185-01, Promoting Independence with Compensatory Cognitive
Rehabilitation: A Pilot Clinical Trial for Early-Stage Alzheimer’s Disease; PI of grants from the National Institute on Aging related to DementiaBank
Non-Financial Disclosures
Executive Committee Member of the Delaware Center for Cognitive Aging (DECCAR)
Governing Board member of TalkBank