Coping with Uncertainty in Neurodegenerative Diseases

Course Overview: This course is designed to provide an understanding of uncertainty in various forms such as coping, family function and emotional health.  This course will prepare caregivers for what to expect in the future and how uncertainty applies to...

What We Can Do Today

Course Overview: This course provides an overview of the importance of enriched activities individuals with dementia can do in the home, describes communication techniques and supportive strategies for caregivers to utilize when caring for an individual living with...

How Exercise Modifies Cerebral Circuitry

6/26/2020 – 7/1/2022 Course Overview: This course will review the principals of activity dependent plasticity and provide an overview of how exercise can strengthen synaptic connection.  This course will also discuss the benefits of aerobic exercise, having...

Family Education and Support as a Cornerstone to Clinical Success

Course Overview: This course is designed to help learners define the landscape of long-term care needs, understand the multidimensional role of the unpaid family caregiver, the impact neurodegenerative disease has on the family unit, assess caregiver burnout, identify...

Dementia Overview

Course overview: This course is designed to provide a basic overview and understating of dementia and reviews important terminology to consider, the epidemiology of dementia, specific examples of dementia and a variety of complications with other live domains....

The Aging Brain and Dementia

Course Overview This course is designed to describe the challenges of brain aging and dementia in older adults as well as identify opportunities to influence this process.  This topic provides an overview of normal brain aging as well as the process of dementia...

Dementia Basics

Course Overview This course is designed to provide an overview of common terminology related to dementia, how dementia interferes with activities of daily living and recognize common symptoms of dementia. This course also discusses how to diagnose the cause of...

Treatment Recommendations for Patients Living with Dementia

Free online ACCME accredited CME/CEU activity Course Overview: This course is designed to help practitioners understand best practices for initiating and managing medication in patients with dementia.  Practitioners will develop and understanding of what to expect...

Vascular Dementia

Course overview: This course will cover a brief overview of the history of Alzheimer disease and late developments in the disease.  Specific comparison of vascular dementia verses other types of dementia are reviewed.  Epidemiology and an understanding of...