Education Needs
We can assist you in identifying and /or meeting the education needs in your facility or region. Arrangements can be made to provide:
- A region wide program on topics of concern to two or more facilities, or
- A facility-based program concentrating on specific topics and involving many shifts.
Formats Can Be Personalized
- You may choose a full-day program (up to seven topics, depending on the length of each presentation and needs identified. A list of topics follows.)
- For a "blitz" on one topic, you may choose 2, 3 or 4 hour sessions repeated 2 or 3 times per day for a day or two, to ensure that staff from all shifts as well as casual staff receive the same information.
Swallowing Topics:
- Introduction to Dysphagia
- Safe Eating and Swallowing Techniques
- Mealtime Interventions for Alzheimer's Disease
- Dysphagia and Nutrition/Hydration issues in End-Of-Life Care (Palliative Care)
- The Natural Progression of Dysphagia Following a Stroke
- Maintaining Hydration in Dysphagic Residents
- Rethinking the Role of Tube Feeding in Residents with Advanced DementiaOral Hygiene and its Role in Dysphagia Management
- Texture-Modified Food and Liquid and its Role in Dysphagia Management
- Dysphagia - Its Clinical Indicators and Implications
Communication Topics:
- Communication and Normal Aging
- Strategies for Conversing with Hearing Impaired Persons
- Communicating Effectively with Aphasic Individuals
- Communication Changes in Parkinson's Disease
- Promoting Communication in the Elderly
- Maintaining Communication with Residents with Dementia
- Communication and Palliative Care
