Nonpharmacological Interventions: The Basics of Connecting and Communicating with Older Adults Living with or without Neurocognitive Decline (CME, Physician Assistant CME, CNE)
Release: May 2, 2025
Expiration: May 2, 2027
Description
Jointly provided by Postgraduate Institute for Medicine and the Alzheimer’s Association.
This Basics webinar will provide educational content on connecting and communicating with older adults living with or without neurocognitive decline from experts in the field of Alzheimer’s and dementia research. Sessions will include a 20-minute primer presentation, quiz and Q&A.
Target Audience
Targeted audience includes everyone who serves or needs to communicate with older adults: healthcare professionals, long-term residential, hospice, and day center staff; students (interns, nurses, medical students, student researchers working with older adults, especially those living with neurocognitive decline); occupational, physical, and recreational therapists; social workers; doctors; hospital/clinic technicians; families; and paid and unpaid caregivers.
Educational Objectives
After completing this activity, the participant should be better able to:
1. Explain the Validation method and its key principles to others.
2. Distinguish the difference between validating, diverting, lying, and confronting.
3. Apply the skills and techniques demonstrated and practiced during the Immersive in their interactions with older adults and in their daily lives.
Planning Committee and Faculty
Vicki de Klerk-Rubin, R.N., M.B.A.,
Validation Master Teacher and the Executive Director of the Validation Training Institute (VTI)
Nancy Brown
Deputy Director for Communications, Validation Training Institute
Disclosure of Financial Relationships
Postgraduate Institute for Medicine (PIM) requires faculty, planners, and others in control of educational content to disclose all their financial relationships with ineligible companies. All identified conflicts of interest (COI) are thoroughly mitigated according to PIM policy. PIM is committed to providing its learners with high quality accredited continuing education activities and related materials that promote improvements or quality in healthcare and not a specific proprietary business interest of an ineligible company.
Planners and Managers: The PIM planners and managers have nothing to disclose. The Alzheimer’s Association planners and managers have nothing to disclose.
Faculty Disclosures: None
This activity is being presented without bias and without commercial support.
Joint Accreditation Statement
In support of improving patient care, this activity has been planned and implemented by the Postgraduate Institute for Medicine and Alzheimer's Association. Postgraduate Institute for Medicine is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
Credit Designation
Physicians
The Postgraduate Institute for Medicine designates this live activity for a maximum of 0.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Continuing Physician Assistant Education:
Postgraduate Institute for Medicine has been authorized by the American Academy of PAs (AAPA) to award AAPA Category 1 CME credit for activities planned in accordance with AAPA CME Criteria. This activity is designated for 0.5 Category 1 CME credits per episode. Approval is valid until 5/2/2017. PAs should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation.
Continuing Nursing Education:
The maximum number of hours awarded for this Continuing Nursing Education activity is 0.5 contact hours.
Disclosure of Unlabeled Use
This educational activity may contain discussion of published and/or investigational uses of agents that are not indicated by the FDA. The planners of this activity do not recommend the use of any agent outside of the labeled indications. The opinions expressed in the educational activity are those of the faculty and do not necessarily represent the views of the planners. Please refer to the official prescribing information for each product for discussion of approved indications, contraindications, and warnings.
Disclaimer
Participants have an implied responsibility to use the newly acquired information to enhance patient outcomes and their own professional development. The information presented in this activity is not meant to serve as a guideline for patient management. Any procedures, medications, or other courses of diagnosis or treatment discussed or suggested in this activity should not be used by clinicians without evaluation of their patient's conditions and possible contraindications and/or dangers in use, review of any applicable manufacturer's product information, and comparison with recommendations of other authorities.