Ethical Strategies to Manage Dementia Related Behaviors

Dr. John Brose has spent over 40 years assisting long term care staff in developing plans and strategies for residents with challenging behaviors. He will offer ethical, concrete, practical, and proactive strategies to help manage challenging dementia related behaviors. The strategies will be tailored for environmental milieu management and individual care planning. Format will include humor, lecture, case example and discussion.

Objectives:
1. Understand that dementia care has more to do with impulse control vs. memory
2. Discuss how dementia impacts mood and behavior
3. Use ethical strategies to reduce resistance during cares of the dementia patient