april, 2023

14apr12:30 pm2:00 pmVirtual EventManaging and Understanding Behavior Problems in Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Disorders

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Managing and Understanding Behavior Problems in Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Disorders—This video introduces coping strategies for accommodating challenging dementia-related behaviors, including The ABC approach. This approach identifies where caregivers have control and where they do not and can help frustrated caregivers gain a sense of empowerment.

Discussion: Shifting the goal from stopping challenging behaviors from starting to accommodating them, viewing all behavior as an attempt to fill an unmet need, becoming a “detective” to identify needs that difficult behaviors may be seeking to fill, noticing environmental triggers to behavior, practicing the ABC approach to managing difficult behaviors

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(Friday) 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm