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March 20, 2025 @ 9:30 am - 12:00 pm
Cost: $10.00
Agitation & Aggression in Dementia:
How to Prevent & De-escalate Hostile Behaviors
Friday, March 7, 2025
In-Person at Messiah Lifeways
100 Mt Allen Drive
Mechanicsburg, PA 17055
This program is made possible through the Emerging Philanthropist Program Endowment fund, a fund of The Foundation for Enhancing Communities.
9:00am – 11:30am
Cost: $10
*2.5 Social Work CEUs Available
No Additional Cost
*2.5 Nursing CEUs Available
No Additional Cost
Description
Aggressive behaviors in dementia patients can be considered common. And while it may be comforting to know you are not dealing with an anomaly it does not make managing the situation easier or less frustrating as a caretaker. Aggressive behaviors could be verbal or physical and at times come for no apparent reason. They can be sudden and identifying the trigger can place pressure on caretakers, especially in a facility setting where other patients could be placed at risk. This training will discuss the causes of this aggressive behavior and share practical, effective responses to these behaviors. We will review case studies and current research on how others have successfully operated with these obstacles. We will also promote the creation of an I.C.E. (In Case of Emergency) action plan that all staff can provide input to, which can be used when urgent situations occur requiring immediate attention.
Objectives
- Understand the cause of aggressive behaviors in dementia patients.
- Identify possible triggers, which can then be avoided to minimize disruption.
- Identify current treatment plans used with dementia patients expressing aggressive behavior.
- Discuss potential options to address these behaviors.
- Discuss how to ensure other residents are kept safe during outbursts.
- Create action steps/ I.C.E. action plan.
- Review case studies to engage real-life application of the action plan.
Target Audience
Professionals, family caregivers, family, and friends of individuals with dementia. Also, those professionals who may have contact with dementia patients on a daily or weekly basis.
Facilitator
Erin Edwards is a Board-Certified Behavior Analysts, with a Masters in Psychology. Erin currently works for Penn State College of Medicine/ Hershey Medical Center with the Division of Autism within the Department of Psychiatry. Erin and PennCares Support Services have worked together for many years developing trainings encompassing older adults and issues surrounding behavioral health. Erin has worked with children with autism and other mental health diagnoses across a variety of services, including specialized schooling, home and community BHRS services, intensive family based mental health services and currently outpatient services. Erin has also worked with adults, in community, home and work settings, with autism and co-morbid mood and mental health diagnoses, as well as hoarding behaviors and anxiety, depression and matters surrounding suicide. In supervisory positions, Erin has provided a large variety of trainings to direct care staff with a focus on practical interventions strategies and reducing frustration or fatigue in caregiver positions.
*CEUs
Social Work: “NASW-PA Chapter is a co-sponsor of this workshop. Upon approval, 2.5 CEUs will be awarded for completion of this course. NASW has been designated as a pre-approved provider of professional continuing education for social workers (Section 47.36), Marriage and Family Therapist (Section 48.36) and Professional Counselors (Section 49.36) by the PA State Board of Social Workers, Marriage & Family Therapists and Professional Counselors.”
Nursing: “Penn State Ross and Carol Nese College of Nursing is approved as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by Pennsylvania State Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. None of the planning committee for this educational activity have relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients (PSNA, 2022). Upon approval, participants with a valid RN license that attend the entire Nursing Continuing Professional Development program (NCPD), can earn 2.5 contact hours.
~If you have any questions, please email Allison Fisher at trainings@penncares.org~
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