Understanding Alzheimer's Patients' Needs and Supporting Family Care
Partners –
Alzheimer's disease Workshop, Carol Taylor – March 26, 2013
Goals and Objectives:
At the conclusion if this instructional webinar, the learner will be able to:
o Describe the social and psychological needs of Alzheimer’s patients and how to best support
family members and patients with Alzheimer’s.
o Explain how to assess needs (spoken, observed, reported) of each Alzheimer’s patient
including physical, psychological, spiritual, social, emotional needs.
o Indicate options, and possibilities for meeting needs from client and family assessment.
o Identify local/regional/national support services, to whom the learner may make
appropriate referrals and assist families in accessing support.
o Describe barriers to accessing and utilizing available support and methods for helping
families to “cross the threshold”.
o Recognize the signs and symptoms of care partner fatigue, burden and breakdown including
depression, insomnia, and anxiety.
o Describe how to utilize proactive screening for care partner burden and mastery.
o Explain “time, task and stress management” techniques to minimize caregiver burden and
enhance mastery.
Organizational Framework:
 Resources used/provided: NONE
 Level of learner: Beginner
 Competencies targeted: Patient care-that is compassionate, appropriate, and
effective for the treatment of health problems and the promotion of heath; practicebased learning and improvement that includes investigation and the evaluation of
their own patient care; interpersonal and communication skills that result in
effective information exchange and teaming with patients, families, and other health
professionals; systems based practice, as manifested by actions that demonstrate an
awareness of and responsiveness to the larger context and system for health care
and the ability to effectively call on system resources to provide care that is of
optimal value.
 Description of enduring training materials used:
o Link to video: Understanding Alzheimer’s patients needs and supporting
family care partners
o Copies of handouts: provided. 508 Compliant Description of handouts is also
included.
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Titles of books used or shared: NONE
Copies of reminders provided: NONE
Copies of PowerPoint presentations: NONE
Copies of notes provided: NONE
A description of the pedagogy driving your training (instructional delivery):
 Intended audience: MDs, NP’s, RNs, Social Work and other mental health
professionals
 Teaching/Learning Strategy: Face to face, in person training via workshop setting.
o Interactive activities used to integrate learning: Questions during and post
presentation.
o Evaluation Strategies: Following completion of each presentation, the
participants will receive an evaluation form to gather quantitative and
qualitative data. The evaluation form will include quantitative questions
anchored to a Likert scale, regarding satisfaction with the presentation, as well
as retrospective pre and post change in knowledge and intent to change their
medical practice as a result of the program. Participants will be able to provide
qualitative data regarding which areas of practice they intend to change.
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