Dementia Education Resources for Healthcare Providers
OkDCN offers free dementia education resources for healthcare providers
across Oklahoma which includes in-service training to all Oklahoma nursing
homes, trainings for health careers students at Oklahoma Technology Centers,
and trainings for Oklahoma first responders. These trainings can be instrumental
in changing perceptions and skills of frontline workers, educators, and
first responders who work with nursing home residents living with dementia.
Please contact the Oklahoma Dementia Care Network at
OkDCN@ouhsc.edu for more information!
Contact Oklahoma Dementia Care Network
Learn more about dementia care training, resources and services for healthcare
professionals from the Oklahoma Dementia Care Network (OkDCN).
Mark your calendars and join us for a Training-For-Trainers presented by
the University of Oklahoma’s Oklahoma Dementia Care Network (OkDCN).
Career Technology Center program coordinators and educators are ideal
attendees. You will elevate your Health Programs and Career Programs with
dementia-specific content for short-term and full-time health courses
(ie. CNA, CMA, CMA CEU, LPN, Police, Fire, and EMS Programs). Technology
center participants will receive a certificate of attendance and a Facilitator’s
Guide at the conclusion of the training, allowing the content to be easily
integrated into your programs.
June 6th, 2024
MetroTech Springlake Campus Economic Development Center, Room 123
1700 Springlake Blvd. Oklahoma City, OK
OkDCN ReThink Dementia events are training opportunities for First Responders
including Police, Fire, and EMS, other Healthcare Professionals, and Community
Members who work to support older adults in times of emergency and crisis.
This training will focus on frontline dementia care education and resource
information for professionals.
OkDCN Nursing Education Resources
Topics for on-site and virtual trainings, as well as in-services for nursing
homes, trainings for career tech educators, and trainings for first responders, include:
Walking With Dementia Walking With Dementia helps learners describe cognitive challenges experienced
by persons living with dementia while gaining empathy for the care of
persons living with dementia. Walking With Dementia also teaches how to
problem solve issues that arise with routine care of persons living with dementia.
Advanced Dementia Care Advanced Dementia Care helps learners better develop skills related to
caring for persons living with dementia.
Bathing Without a Battle Bathing Without a Battle helps learners be able to describe the benefits
of person-centered bathing and to be able to provide bathing care using
methods that increase comfort and warmth and decrease pain.
Dementia Care Teams Dementia Care Teams helps learners form quality teams for the care of persons
living with dementia by building trust, learning by listening, appreciating
yourself and others, and celebrating team success in dementia care.
Person Centered Care Person Centered Care helps learners understand how to prioritize the feelings,
attitudes, and beliefs of the person being cared for. Person Centered
Care models how to make sure the care of the person being cared for meets
their needs and makes them the center of their decisions which helps achieve
the best outcomes of both medical professionals and the person being cared for.
Infection Control Infection Control helps learners to better understand core principles in
creating an environment that aims to reduce transmission of infection,
to discover tools and strategies for best practice in infection control
in long-term care settings, and learners also discuss methods for reducing
infection transmission.
Skin Integrity Skin Integrity helps learners better understand that persons living with
dementia have special skin considerations due to cognitive impairment
and their inability to care for their skin properly and as such, frontline
caregivers are often the first to notice skin issues among persons living
with dementia. Skin Integrity teaches why it is so important for frontline
caregivers to share their observations on the skin issues of persons living
with dementia with other medical professionals to prevent skin breakdown.
End of Life Care End of Life Care helps learners understand that persons living with dementia
may often live years with the disease and that because dementia disease
progression is unpredictable, this can make end of life care challenging.
The importance of issues such as making medical decisions for persons
living with dementia, being present for the person living with dementia
at the end of life, and supporting dementia caregivers at the end of the
life of the person living with dementia are examined and discussed.
Age Friendly Dementia Care: What Matters Most What Matters Most teaches learners how to know and align care with the
person living with dementia specific health outcome goals and care preferences,
which includes end-of-life care and settings of care.
Age Friendly Dementia Care: Medication Medication teaches learners to monitor the use of medications by persons
living with dementia to make sure that the medications don’t interfere
with what matters to the person living with dementia, their mobility,
and/or mentation across care settings.
Age Friendly Dementia Care: Mentation Mentation teaches learners how to prevent, identify, treat, and manage
dementia, delirium, and depression across care settings.
Age Friendly Dementia Care: Mobility Mobility helps learners to better understand how to ensure that older adults
move safely every day in order to maintain function and do what matters
most to them.
Information on IHI Age-Friendly Health System
What is an Age-Friendly Healthcare system?
An IHI (Institute for Healthcare Improvement) recognized Age-Friendly Health
System is a clinical care setting utilizing the evidence-based interventions
and reliable practices in healthcare provided to older adults. The elements
of high-quality care of an Age-Friendly healthcare system are the 4Ms
(What Matters, Medications, Mentation and Mobility).
There are 2 levels of recognition that can be achieved.
Level 1 is an Age-Friendly health system participant committed to putting the
4Ms into practice with an approved IHI plan. Once Level 1 is achieved
successfully for 3 or more months a healthcare system can submit for Level
2 recognition.
Level 2 Age-Friendly recognition is achieved by a healthcare system committed
to Care Excellence with a shown exemplary alignment of the 4Ms in practice
along with the number of older adults provided 4Ms care in a consecutive
3-month timeframe.
For more information on Age-Friendly recognition please visit this
website.
Contact: Contact OkDCN at
okdcn@ouhsc.edu, for guidance on beginning your Age-Friendly healthcare journey.
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