APS Simulation Training: Dementia, Parkinson's Disease and End-of-Life Conversations
Featuring a special focus on two progressive diseases, this immersive training strengthens learners’ understanding of these conditions while also emphasizing the importance of clear, compassionate communication about end-of-life decisions and about what to expect in the final days.
Learning Objectives
After attending this training, participants will be able to:
- Identify ways these diseases affect individuals.
- Recognize changes that can disrupt activities of daily living.
- Find effective ways to work as a team between patient, family and health care personnel to contribute to patient quality of life.
- Identify effective ways to manage anxiety, agitation or hallucinations that often present with these conditions.
- Recognize when caretaker burnout, financial burden or safety may necessitate help from professional care agencies and/or residential communities.
- Identify ways residential communities can tailor care for older adults with unique needs due to their culture as well as disease presentation.
- Define three end-of-life services and identify service offerings.
- Identify two examples of important end-of-life paperwork.
- Identify two signs or symptoms of active dying.
- Define the cycle of grief and provide one example of complicated grief.
- Identify three death and bereavement resources.
Course Code
511876