Incorporating a Dementia Strategy into your Practice

4/23/2021 – 7/1/2022 Course Overview: This course is designed to help practitioners understand the basics of billing for memory screening assessments and dementia care.  Learn how to incorporate preventive strategies focusing on dementia risk reduction in...

Missed Diagnosis – Lost Opportunities

3/26/2021 – 7/1/2022 Course Overview: Dementia is a growing public health problem for which early detection may be beneficial. Currently, the diagnosis of dementia in primary care is dependent mostly on clinical suspicion based on patient symptoms or caregivers’...

The Importance of Non-Neurologic Symptoms in Dementia Care

2/26/2021 – 7/1/2022 Course Overview: Treatment of Non-Neurologic Symptoms requires continuous and organic cooperation between patients, caregivers, social environments, and doctors. Therefore, it is important for neurologists, who mainly view NBSD for dementia...

Medical Issues that Contribute to Cognitive Impairment

1/22/2021 – 7/1/2022 Course Overview: One of the goals in evaluating a patient with dementia is to rule out reversible causes, for treatment of the underlying condition may result in a remarkable recovery for the patient. On the other hand, a patient with a...

Subjective Complaints of Dementia: Insight and Memory

12/18/2020 -7/1/2022 Course Overview: This course is designed to help practitioners determine whether subjective memory complaints (SMCs) are associated with performance on objective cognitive measures and psychological factors in healthy, community-dwelling older...

Motor and Visuospatial Syndromes of Dementia

11/20/2020 – 7/1/2022 Course Overview: The principal features of subcortical dementia include bradyphrenia, impairment of executive function, recall abnormalities, visuospatial disturbances, depression, and apathy. The syndrome contrasts with dementia of the...

Behavioral and Psychiatric Syndromes of Dementia

10/23/2020 – 7/1/2022 Course Overview: Behavioral and psychiatric symptoms are emerging as a significant contributor to this clinical heterogeneity. These symptoms have been linked to multiple areas of neurodegeneration, which may suggest that they are...

Treatment of Dementia

Free online ACCME accredited CME/CEU activity This course will examine pharmacological and non-pharmacological treatments of dementia and their effect in the treatment of dementia. This course discusses phases of the disease process when specific treatments should be...

Differential Diagnosis of Dementia

8/28/2020 – 7/1/2022 Course Overview: Alzheimer’s disease accounts for up to 80 percent of all dementia cases. Diagnosis may be complicated by other forms of dementia that have symptoms and pathologies similar to Alzheimer’s disease. Knowing the key...

Redefining Alzheimer’s Disease: Prodromal AD

7/24/2020 – 7/1/2022 Course Overview: This course discusses the current understanding of neurodegenerative disorders, explores the unique clinical and neuropsychological characteristics of Alzheimer disease and addresses whether there is an identifiable...

Diagnosis of Dementia

6/26/2020 – 7/1/2022 Course Overview: Course Overview This course is designed to help learners understand the characteristics of the various types of dementia including vascular dementia, Lewy body dementia, frontotemporal dementia and normal pressure...