Reduce Distress.

Improve Well-Being.

Strengthen Person-Directed Practice.

Help your team move beyond managing "behaviors" to understanding unmet needs, supporting well-being, and creating meaningful outcomes for people living with dementia.

This course equips employees, leaders, and interdisciplinary teams with practical tools to recognize distress, implement individualized, non-pharmacological approaches, and improve quality of life while supporting regulatory expectations and reducing reliance on psychotropic medications.
Starting at $1,495
for 20 participants

The Challenge

Distress Is Communication

Many individuals living with dementia experience distress and express it in ways that are termed "behaviors," attributed to the dementia. When organizations focus only on fixing or normalizing "benaviors," opportunities to improve well-being, strengthen relationships, and optimize quality outcomes are often missed.

This course helps teams:

  • Understand the meaning behind personal expressions

  • Identify unmet physical, emotional, social, and environmental needs

  • Reduce unnecessary psychotropic medication use

  • Personalize care plans

  • Enhance team communication

  • Support survey readiness and person-centered care requirements

Included in This Course

  • Self-Paced Learning

    2.5 NAB/NCERS & SHRM approved CEUs

  • Implementation Resources

    Practical workbooks

    Distress prevention tools

    Quality improvement resources

    Team discussion guides

Course curriculum

    1. Welcome

    1. About the Instructor

    2. Dementia is a Syndrome

    3. Defining Alzheimer's Disease

    4. Other Common Types of Dementia

    5. The Prevalence of Dementia

    6. Quiz - What is Dementia?

    1. What is Distress?

    2. Busting the BPSD Mindset

    3. The Eden Alternative Domains of Well-Being®

    4. Eden Alternative Domains of Well-Being®

    5. White Paper: Eden Alternative Domains of Well-Being®

    6. The Three Pillar Approach

    7. Quiz - Laying the Groundwork

    1. Approaching the Person

    2. Speaking

    3. Listening

    4. Helping People Get “Unstuck”

    5. Supporting Choice

    6. Working Together

    7. Quiz - Face-to-Face Approaches

    1. The Experiential Audit

    2. Experiential Audit Process

    1. Medications and Dementia

About this course

  • 40 lessons
  • 2.5 hours of video content

Learn on your schedule

  • Focused Video Lessons

    Immediately applicable easy to understand nuggets of information in every video.

  • Downloadable Workbook

    Take your exploration deeper through exercises, group discussion questions, practical applications, and calls to action.

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Consultation & Coaching Pathway
For Organizations Ready to Drive Measurable Outcomes
Includes Everything in Standard PLUS 8 Hours of Customized Coaching and Consultation

Up to 40 Participants for $3,995

12 Months Access