Steven Atkinson – Challenging Geriatric Behaviors

If you are responsible for older adults, this program will help to minimize the potential for irrational behavior and other problems.

Steven Atkinson – Challenging Geriatric Behaviors

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You can watch Steven Atkinson, PA-C, MS, nationally-A well-respected expert, author, and speaker on geriatrics.-Energy, dynamic recording with insightful discussions, interesting case studies and interactive learning. This recording will provide you with practical tips and tricks that you can use the next day. Cognitively challenged individuals-Even for experienced healthcare professionals, caring for impaired geriatric patients is difficult.

You will be taught strategies to manage such behaviors as:

• Dementia
• Aggression
• Depression and anxiety
• Refusal of food or fluids
• Inappropriate sexual advances

This program will help you reduce the risk of older adults falling prey to irrational, often troublesome behavior. Learn valuable insights about the causes of difficult geriatric behaviors, and innovative and practical interventions strategies to improve the care you give.

1. Strategies to manage difficult behavior in seniors with altered perceptions of reality
2. Identify the signs and symptoms of Alzheimer’s Disease and other dementias.
3. Discuss current research on the prevention of Alzheimer’s disease, as well as lifestyle factors to slow the disease progression.
4. Consider the safety concerns of geriatric patients who drive, and identify those who pose a safety risk.
5. Explain why wandering is common in people with cognitive impairment. Develop strategies to prevent or redirect this behavior.
6. Describe the environmental and behavioral factors that cause agitation.
7. Individuals with dementia should be able to distinguish between inappropriate and appropriate sexual behavior.
8. You need to distinguish between normal sleeping patterns, and bedtime problems which could lead you to more health problems.
9. Analyze the physical and psychological changes that affect an elder’s desire and ability to eat including the changes in nutritional requirements.
10. Identify the signs and strategies that can be used to prevent caregiver stress.

Normal Aging, Depression, and Delirium

• Normal aging of the mind
• Depression, dementia, delirium
• Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias
• Develop a plan for care that will help you diagnose, differentiate and treat your condition.

Alzheimer’s Disease

• Stages
• Assessment
• Get a diagnosis
• Early diagnosis of behavioral issues
• Management and interventions
• Pharmacological treatments

Driving with dementia

• Safety while driving
• Legal issues
• Assess your driving skills
• How to take your keys away

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Wandering

• Reasons cognitively impaired people wander
• Is wandering a bad thing or a good thing?
• Things to Consider
• Manage a wanderer’s behavior

Physical Aggression

• Identify the root cause of aggression
• Loss of impulse control
• Regression of the child/mind-Like mind
• Take control of the problem

Inappropriate Sexual Behavior Behaviors

• Normal sexual drive or inappropriate behaviour
• Individuals with cognitive impairment
• Medication management
• Ethical considerations

Refusing/Forgetting Food

• Geriatric patients may stop eating or slow down for these reasons
• Geriatric patients have different nutritional needs
• Improve your health
• Malnutrition and dehydration
• Alternatives to eating

Sleepless Nights

• Sundowning and behavioral problems at night
• Why does sundowning occur at night?
• Interventions to reduce aggressive behaviors
• When it becomes difficult to manage medication

Stress for caregivers

• Stress can be physical, psychological, or emotional.
• How to help caregiver burnout
• Assist the caregiver

Other Issues

• How to spot potential falls and prevent injury
• Orthostatic hypotension: Causes
• How to avoid restraints

Case Studies: Learning from mistakes and experience

• How to manage sundowners
• Strategies to improve hygiene
• Reassurance and redirection

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