Strategies to Keep Your Thinking Strong
Learn to interpret behavior and understand what clients with dementia are communicating in order to address behavioral difficulties
Discover strategies for addressing the thinking issues and other challenges that occur with older adults
Explore how Parkinson’s impacts the brain’s thinking abilities, from subjective changes to dementia. Most importantly, learn what we can do to keep our brain's strong
What you need to know about mental health and older adults, including understanding the impact of normal life transitions, mood disorders, and anxiety
Further information, focusing on more severe psychiatric conditions, including psychosis, hoarding, and behavioral difficulties related to dementia
Understand why older adults may be prone to scam victimization and how to help them
Detect the presence of dementia, even when it presents in an unconventional fashion. Explore basic decision-making capacity and how to assess it.
Learn what dementia really is and the variety of forms it can take. Finish up with a basic strategy for working with dementia.
Learn about COVID-19 and its effects on cognition, emotion, and dementia
Learn how the brain changes physically as we age, and how this affects thinking skills
Learn a model of the brain that you carry with you everywhere, as well as a breathing techniques to help you relax when your brain gets too revved up