Solve Challenging Dementia Behaviors: Support Family Connections and Losses as Root Causes – Edward G. Shaw

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If you are a healthcare professional who works with people living with dementia, you’ve probably thought to yourself…I just can’t understand what’s going on in their brain. Through this innovative recording, you will gain new skills to transform the way you approach dementia-related behaviors:

• Manage unmet emotional, relational, and behavioral challenges in people living with dementia
• Realize new solutions for challenging behaviors, using knowledge of attachment theory, attachment loss, and separation distress as a root cause
• Gain strategies for embodied, sensory-based mindfulness to use with people living with dementia
• Facilitate desired emotional love connections and bonds between those with dementia and their caregivers
• Frustration-ending alternatives to manage agitation, aggression, and other challenging behaviors in dementia – without the use of antipsychotic and other drugs

Join dementia expert Edward G. Shaw, MD, MA, nationally known physician, counselor, author, and speaker, for a dynamic recording filled with insightful discussions, interactive learning, and application of practical techniques. You will finish this program feeling confident that you can identify the root cause of challenging behaviors and implement solutions to facilitate emotional connections.

1. Differentiate Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia using a strengths-based, functional abilities model.
2. Demonstrate mindfulness interventions and techniques to use for people living with dementia.
3. Analyze attachment theory as it relates to people living with dementia, including attachment loss, separation distress, and challenging behaviors.
4. Evaluate the 5 Love Language framework as a “toolkit” to build the emotional love connection with those affected by Alzheimer’s and other dementias.
5. Choose non-medication-based strategies to manage challenging behavioral expressions in people living with dementia.
6. Determine new frustration-ending alternatives to manage agitation, aggression, and other challenging behaviors.

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When the Medical Model Doesn’t Work

• The medical model reimagined focusing on abilities, strengths, and resilience rather than disabilities, weaknesses, and neuropsychiatric symptoms
• 5 cognitive functions (attention/concentration, memory, executive function, language, visuospatial function)
• Personality
• Mood
• Orientation
• Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia
• Transform how you think about and problem-solve common challenges in Alzheimer’s disease and the other dementia types

Mindfulness & Dementia

• Mindfulness reimagined in the setting of dementia
• How mindfulness affects the autonomic nervous system
• Associative vs. dissociative experiences through the lens of mindfulness
• Embodied, sensory-based mindfulness strategies to use with people living with dementia

Attachment Theory & Dementia

• Attachment theory reimagined in the setting of older adults
• Dementia as the ultimate attachment loss
• Separation distress responses in the person with dementia
  • The seeking response: Agitation, aggression, “going home,” wandering, resisting care
  • The withdrawing response: Depression, apathy, anhedonia
• Affirm, acknowledge, redirect: A simple, powerful attachment-based approach for challenging behavioral expressions of dementia

Strengthening Relationships: The 5 Love Languages and Dementia

• Love reimagined in the context of dementia
• 5 Love Languages in practice – physical touch, quality time, words of affirmation, acts of service, and gifts
• Dementia as an erosion of the “emotional glue” that bonds people together
• Skills to foster emotional love connections and attachment bonds