Alzheimer’s Care Specialist Course
This course trains nursing professionals to become Alzheimer’s Care Specialists. Participants gain expertise in advanced dementia assessment, safe mobility practices, effective behavior management without drugs, person-centered care planning, and strong communication with families and care teams. These skills enhance safety, comfort, and dignity for individuals with advanced Alzheimer’s disease, using evidence-based approaches tailored for late-stage care.

4 to 360h flexible workload
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What will I learn?
This course equips learners with practical, evidence-based techniques for caring for individuals with advanced dementia. Key topics include cognitive staging and assessment, preventing falls and wandering, managing continence and medications, assessing pain in nonverbal patients, developing person-centered care plans, applying nonpharmacological strategies for behaviors, and collaborating effectively with families and healthcare teams to ensure respectful, safe support.
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Develop skills
- Advanced dementia assessment: stage, function, behavior, and fall risk.
- Safe Alzheimer’s care: transfers, fall prevention, continence and skin protection.
- Person-centered care plans: measurable goals, ADLs, and comfort-focused outcomes.
- Non-drug behavior management: agitation, wandering, sleep and pain in late-stage AD.
- Family and team collaboration: clear communication, support, and ethical decisions.
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