Errorless Learning and Other Effective Interventions for People Living with Dementia, 2nd Edition

Goals & Objectives:

Course Overview

This course is intended to equip healthcare team members with information about the evidence and application of current effective interprofessional approaches for people with dementia to optimize their function and quality of life. Initially, diagnostic and staging factors of dementia will be shared to recognize the unique differences in each person living with dementia. Then types of memory will be described so that participants can best understand the deficits and remaining strengths of different people with dementia. From that point, effective strategies will be shared, to include evidence supporting each in the optimization of function and quality of life for clients and patients with dementia and related impairments.

Learning Outcomes

Upon completing this course, the learner should be able to:

• Analyze diagnostic and staging factors to consider when planning treatments for people with dementia.
• Assess the external strategies found to be effective for facilitating memory deficits.
• Distinguish examples of external memory aids that may be effective for individuals with memory impairments. 
• Analyze evidence supporting the errorless learning instructional method.
• Apply functional examples for utilizing the vanishing cues instructional strategy
• Indicate how the spaced retrieval technique has been found to be effective for teaching new functions for people with memory impairments.
• Analyze examples of successes found by utilizing the Montessori approach.