Dementia Friendly for Healthcare
This training is available by request and provides a free 60 or 90 minute educational session for staff working in health and dental care settings. The training is conducted by volunteers who are trained by ACT on Alzheimer's to lead the sessions. The training helps healthcare workers understand dementia and learn how to create an environment that is safe, respectful and welcoming for people living with dementia. A more in-depth, 6 hour training is also available for clinical staff.
Alzheimer's Association Public Health Efforts
This website provides information on the Alzheimer's Association's work to address Alzheimer's as a public health crisis includes guidance and tools for public health departments, the Public Health Center of Excellence in Dementia Risk Reduction, tools and resources for health systems, and the Interdisciplinary Summer Research Institute for researchers. Also included is information on the Healthy Brain Initiative, the Dementia Risk Reduction Summit, health systems change, and early warning signs.
Source: Alzheimer's Association.
The Role of the Behavioral Health Provider within Non-Traditional Multidisciplinary Teams
Learning Objectives:
*CMS Regulations Effective 1.1.24- how does this change the scope of practice
*Places where LMHC's can practice in integrated settings
*Roles for Behavioral Health Providers
*Focused learning on SNF/ALF work for LMHC's under new regulations
Nexus Summit 2023 Seminar Showcase: Exploring the Future of AI Within Health Professions Education
This webinar is part of the Nexus Summit 2023 Seminar Showcase series. You may register for this and the other webinars in the Series here.
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Provider Resources for Dental Providers
ACT on Alzheimer’s and its partners strive to increase the capacity of dental providers to care for the growing number of older adults living with dementia and to support their care partners. This website provides training packages and resources for the entire dental team (DDS, DH, DT, DA and administrative staff).
Nexus Summit 2023 Seminar Showcase: Interprofessional Practice and Education Through a One Health Lens
This webinar is part of the Nexus Summit 2023 Seminar Showcase series. You may register for this and the other webinars in the Series here.
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Ketamine as a Therapeutic Intervention
Learning outcomes:
1) Understand the effect of ketamine on the brain in the context of KAP
2) Recognize client factors that facilitate and hinder efficacy/appropriateness of KAP as a therapy intervention
3) Understand the screening, intervention, and follow-up process that differentiates KAP from other forms of talk therapy
Communities of clinical practice in action: Doing whatever it takes
Ethnographic examination of nine communities of clinical practice, in one general practice setting, caring for patients with long-term conditions. The study finds that CoCP are driven by the moral imperative to care, at some cost, accounting for the ‘messiness’ of community-based care.
Transition to practice: can rural interprofessional education make a difference?
This study investigated student learning experiences over the first two complete years of the programme, comparing responses from participating students with those from a cohort of non-participating peers. This study finds that if multiple learning objectives can be met concurrently in well supported rural IPE programmes, learning outcomes can be maximised for a wide range of health professional students in ways that are sustainable and beneficial for local communities.
Patients’ and health professionals’ perceptions of teamwork in primary care
This study aimed to test both the feasibility of undertaking a collaborative method of enquiry as a means of investigating patient perceptions about teamwork in the context of their current health care, and also to compare and contrast these views with those of their usual health professionals in New Zealand suburban health practice settings.