Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders Level One (SOD)

Course overview

This course will provide a basic level orientation to the course of Alzheimer's Disease from earliest symptoms to death. It is an excellent overview for anyone beginning to service those with Alzheimer's and other neurological diseases. Working with any deteriorating neurological disease can be daunting without an understanding of the stages of decline. Each stage forces caregivers to employ new individually specific strategies do deal with the many various challenges. Strategies are explained and offered for every aspect of care from activities of daily living, communication needs, aggressive behaviors to grief reactions in the families.