AN INTEGRATAIVE APPROACH TO CARE
"Understanding Functional Cognition and Personal Factors"

This seminar is designed for all professional/paraprofessionals who work in assisted living, skilled nursing or home health care settings.

DATE: APRIL 24, 2009

LOCATION: Best Western Milwaukee Airport Hotel and Conference Center

ADDRESS: 5105 South Howell Avenue, Milwaukee, WI 53207

PRESENTED BY: Vita Cura, LLC and SELECTOne Rehab

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PROGRAM DESCRIPTION:

This one day course is designed for multidisciplinary teams to help them gain a better understanding of how an individual processes information, what is meaningful and relevant to them and how environmental and caregiver approaches can influence outcomes and promote well-being. Each participant will receive an extensive handout packet with materials that can be used upon completion of this course. This program is designed to empower staff, and reduce the burden of care. Relevant research will be presented.

TARGETED AUDIENCE:

Nurses, Occupational Therapists/assistants, Activity Therapists, CNAs, Physical Therapists/assistants, Speech Pathologists, Social Workers, Psychologists, and other health care staff and Administrators.

EACH PARTICIPANT WILL RECEIVE:

• An extensive handout packet and bibliography to include activity programs, clinical guides, educational handouts, and resources.

• The book Caregivers: Drowning in a Sea of Cognitive Challenges written by Delaune Pollard.

• Contact hour certificates.

COURSE OBJECTIVES

• Understand how global brain functions influence how a person will notice things in the environment, control their body movements and process verbal, visual and tactile information.

• Gain an understanding of how functional cognition as described in the Cognitive Disability Model and personal factors can be used to support improved outcomes, prevent secondary complications, support financial integrity and contribute to specialized dementia programs.

• Learn how to use the Advanced Lifestyle Directive (Pollard, 05) to better understand personal factors and relate them to functional abilities to provide person centered care.

• Identify environmental strategies and caregiver approaches to minimize problematic behaviors, reduce the burden of care, and promote active engagement in meaningful life tasks.

• Learn how Obra 87 regulations support this approach and culture change initiatives.

• Understand how to empower caregivers and the family and how to apply that to a unique skill shifting concept.

• Learn how to provide person centered activities and sensory modulation programs for all cognitive levels that promote active engagement and positive responses according to how an individual processes information.

• Decreasing staff burnout and turnover rates by promoting empowerment and successful interventions.

ABOUT THE PRESENTER

Pat Jakubiec, OTR has twenty-four years of clinical experience as an Occupational Therapist. She has worked extensively with individuals who have had mild to severe deficits in functional cognition in multiple settings and is currently involved in clinical consultation, development and training in geriatric settings to include specialty dementia care training.

Pat serves on the Allen Cognitive Network advisory board and is an expert in the Cognitive Disability Theory. She chairs the education committee which is involved in developing standards for clinical practice and education.

Pat has been recognized for her work in teaching and implementation of the Allen Cognitive model in clinical settings and has been mentored by Delaune Pollard, AccOT, Allen Expert Cognitive Advisor and author of several clinical books.

Pat has lectured regionally and nationally and has been involved in university research involving the ingratiation of the cognitive disabilities model into the studies for individuals residing in long-term care facilities.