Video
Instructional Level: Intermediate

Accreditation Information:

Course Outline:

Hour 1

  • Introduction of course
  • CMS Dementia Initiative
  • Paradigm Shift: From Negative to Positive Thinking
  • Best Ability to Function

Hour 1

  • Stages of Dementia Review
  • Stage I
  • Stage II
  • Stage III
  • Stage IV
  • Stage V
  • Stage VI

Hour 3

  • Case Study Review for identification of Level and BATF
  • Assessment of Dementia, including ACL and Staging
  • Practice Assessments

Hour 4

  • Treatment Approaches for each of the 6 stages of dementia.
  • Treatment Approach Activity
  • Goal writing
  • Documentation, Billing and Reimbursement
  • Restorative and Functional Maintenance Plan development

Authors

Melissa Collier, MS CCC-SLP, CHC, CDP
Lindsey Roberts, M.S., CCC-SLP
Marlon Hill, OTR, CLT

Changing Our Mindset About Dementia Rehabilitation: Facilitating Functional and Quality of Life Potential

Changing Our Mindset About Dementia Rehabilitation: Facilitating Functional and Quality of Life Potential

4 Hours Instructional Level: Intermediate
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Description:

Description:

In the long-term care setting, the number of elderly residents with a dementia diagnosis is growing. In recent years, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has increased their focus in the identification of residents with dementia with the intent to improve care and person-centered treatment in long term care, while optimizing behavioral health. Their mission is to reduce anti-psychotic medication through education and training. In an effort to partner with CMS’s initiative, this course will educate practitioners in the identification of individuals with dementia and how to provide optimal services through therapeutic intervention.

This course explains Claudia Allen’s ‘Cognitive Disabilities Model’ as a process for treating individuals with dementia and improving their quality of care. It focuses on preserving a resident’s quality of life by determining each individual’s ‘Best Ability to Function’. This course will educate therapists how to identify an individual’s abilities, interests, and possibilities and incorporate those into treatment sessions.

Allen has identified and described 6 levels of cognitive ability and an individual’s remaining abilities at each stage. This course will discuss each level in detail and identify the remaining abilities are in each stage. After describing each level of Allen’s Cognitive Disabilities Model, this course will then review each stage and will describe a variety of interventions that could be implemented for each level, including examples of short and long term goals. Documentation and reimbursement guidelines will also be reviewed.

Full Course Description
Description:In the long-term care setting, the number of elderly residents with a dementia diagnosis is growing. In recent years, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has increased their focus in the identification of residents with dementia with the intent to improve care and person-centered treatment in long term care, while optimizing behavioral health. Their mission is to reduce anti-psychotic medication through education and training. In an effort to partner with CMS’s initiative, this...

Goals & Objectives:

Course Goals:

This course is intended to instruct the practitioners in the identification of individuals with dementia and how to provide optimal services through therapeutic intervention. Levels of cognitive ability within the realm of the dementia diagnosis have been identified, defined, remaining abilities have been determined, and how to carry over in a functional environment has been explained. 

Professional Objectives:

  1. Classify three alternative outlooks, from negative to positive, in caring for patients with dementia.
  2. Differentiate the six ACL levels of dementia and the patient’s best ability to function at each level.
  3. Order types of assessments for dementia and interpret results for staging level of dementia.
  4. Arrange a treatment plan for each stage of dementia.
  5. Predict adequate goals, both short and long term, for each stage of dementia.
  6. Organize appropriate CPT codes for billing purposes and corresponding reimbursement guidelines, per the Medicare Benefit Policy Manuals.

Goals & Objectives:

Course Goals:

This course is intended to instruct the practitioners in the identification of individuals with dementia and how to provide optimal services through therapeutic intervention. Levels of cognitive ability within the realm of the dementia diagnosis have been identified, defined, remaining abilities have been determined, and how to carry over in a functional environment has been explained. 

Professional Objectives:

  1. Classify three alternative outlooks, from negative to positive, in caring for patients with dementia.
  2. Differentiate the six ACL levels of dementia and the patient’s best ability to function at each level.
  3. Order types of assessments for dementia and interpret results for staging level of dementia.
  4. Arrange a treatment plan for each stage of dementia.
  5. Predict adequate goals, both short and long term, for each stage of dementia.
  6. Organize appropriate CPT codes for billing purposes and corresponding reimbursement guidelines, per the Medicare Benefit Policy Manuals.

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Contact Hours: 4 contact hours in length (check your state’s approval status in the state specific course catalog for your profession).

Target Audience: Occupational Therapist, Occupational Therapist Assistant, Speech-Language Pathologist

Instructional Level: Intermediate

Criteria for Completion: Criteria for Completion: A score of 70% or more is considered passing. Scores of less than 70% indicate a failure to understand the material and the test will need to be taken again until a passing score has been achieved

ACHA CE Approved Provider 

This course is offered for 0.40 ASHA CEUs (Intermediate level, Professional area).

AOTA logoColibri Healthcare, LLC is an AOTA Approved Provider of professional development. AOTA Provider #9118. This distance learning-independent course is offered at 0.4 CEUs/Contact Hours noted above to Occupational Therapists and OTAs. The assignment of AOTA CEUs does not imply endorsement of specific course content, products, or clinical procedures by AOTA or indicate AOTA approval of a certification or other professional recognition.

Personnel Disclosure:

Financial – All instructors are employed by Rehab Synergies Success and received a salary. They received payment from HomeCEU for the presentation of this course. 

Nonfinancial - no relevant nonfinancial relationship exists.

Content Disclosure: This course does not focus solely on any specific product or service

Cancellation Policy: For activity cancellation, returns, or complaint resolution, please contact us by email help@homeceu.com or by phone at 1.800.55.4CEUS (2387). We have a 100% satisfaction guarantee. Refunds will be issued for courses that have not been completed (exam not taken), or for any course that has been rejected by your board of approval. Webinar attendance must be canceled 24 hours before the scheduled start time.

Disclosures:

SEMINAR-ON-DEMAND 

"Seminar-On-Demand" course are streamed on your web browser if the online version if purchased. Our SODs are optimized for the most current versions of Safari, Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox. All SOD courses are mobile ready.

Contact Hours: 4 contact hours in length (check your state’s approval status in the state specific course catalog for your profession).

Target Audience: Occupational Therapist, Occupational Therapist Assistant, Speech-Language Pathologist

Instructional Level: Intermediate

Criteria for Completion: Criteria for Completion: A score of 70% or more is considered passing. Scores of less than 70% indicate a failure to understand the material and the test will need to be taken again until a passing score has been achieved

ACHA CE Approved Provider 

This course is offered for 0.40 ASHA CEUs (Intermediate level, Professional area).

AOTA logoColibri Healthcare, LLC is an AOTA Approved Provider of professional development. AOTA Provider #9118. This distance learning-independent course is offered at 0.4 CEUs/Contact Hours noted above to Occupational Therapists and OTAs. The assignment of AOTA CEUs does not imply endorsement of specific course content, products, or clinical procedures by AOTA or indicate AOTA approval of a certification or other professional recognition.

Personnel Disclosure:

Financial – All instructors are employed by Rehab Synergies Success and received a salary. They received payment from HomeCEU for the presentation of this course. 

Nonfinancial - no relevant nonfinancial relationship exists.

Content Disclosure: This course does not focus solely on any specific product or service

Cancellation Policy: For activity cancellation, returns, or complaint resolution, please contact us by email help@homeceu.com or by phone at 1.800.55.4CEUS (2387). We have a 100% satisfaction guarantee. Refunds will be issued for courses that have not been completed (exam not taken), or for any course that has been rejected by your board of approval. Webinar attendance must be canceled 24 hours before the scheduled start time.

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