Jane Yakel – Promoting Function & Maintaining Independence in the Face of Dementia

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Jane Yakel is a professor.
5 hours and 40 minutes.
Audio and video formats are available.
Copyright: 14 June 2018
Description

It will affect us all sooner or later: one of our patients, family members, or someone close to us may be diagnosed with dementia. With our population aging, we are constantly swept into a flurry of daunting tasks to teach the demented patient skills that are difficult to come by, such as locking wheelchair brakes for safety, drinking liquid to prevent dehydration, increasing functional independence in toileting, and, most importantly, assisting with caregiver training. As we enter the realm of dementia and the paradigm of service delivery shifts to the caregiver, it is becoming increasingly vital to raise our knowledge and skill levels, not just for our patients, but also to teach carers and family members.

Understanding how dementia disorders develop is a crucial tool for success. Knowing how, when, and what to do for the patient is based on an understanding that our professional, and ethical, responsibility is to assist the patient in achieving and maintaining their highest level of functioning; thus, we must know what they require – and this knowing begins with the ability to accurately “stage” a patient’s dementia. When a patient is staged, the patient’s requirements become more visible.

This novel recording provides staging tools that clearly delineate the patient’s remaining abilities and the patient’s lost abilities at each different level; this is the understanding that drives action. Through role play, discuss and display the best evidence-based communication approaches in the field of dementia. Completing this dynamic and collaborative recording will provide participants with the confidence and skills to construct structured, methodical, and highly tailored therapy programs, as well as the ability to explain their practice.

Handouts

Manual for Promoting Function and Maintaining Independence in Dementia (4.65 MB)

Outline 102 Pages Available After Purchase

DEMENTIA AND OTHER DISEASES

Differential diagnosis of neurodegenerative disorders
Determine how dementia symptoms differ between disorders.

ARE YOU ASSESSING OR STAGING? WHAT DO THEY TELL US, AND WHAT SHOULD WE DO?

Standardized evaluations
Patient-centered evaluations
“Staging Equipment”
What patient abilities may be expected at each stage
Chronological eras that correspond to the phases

DOCUMENTING SKILLED DEMENTIA INTERVENTIONS

Create patient-centered objectives.
Assess progress and demonstrate medical need
Keeping daily records “skilled”
Key phrases in dementia therapy that represent functional results

MEMORY SYSTEM ASSESSMENTS

Memory system for new learning and conscious memory
Unconscious memory method for procedural learning
Memory systems documentation based on medical diagnosis

THERAPEUTIC INTERVENTIONS BASED ON EVIDENCE

Errorless Learning vs. Error-prone Learning
Directions for Using Errorless Learning Successfully
Lab/case discussion that is interactive
Retrieval in Space

Specific spaced retrieval time and routes for the dementia population
Creating a “prompt question”
Spaced Retrieval demos for certain disciplines
Written objectives and skillful documentation
Dementia Programming Based on Montessori

Translate Montessori instruction into effective treatment intervention
Understanding the First In – Last Out Theory of Retrogenesis
Create organized stimulating activities that are suited for each person’s cognitive level.
Written objectives and skilled documentation for Montessori approaches
Approach Based on Capabilities

Create effective treatment interventions based on the patient’s ability.
Determine the patient’s best functional ability.
Written objectives and skilled documentation for ability-based approaches
There are examples and case studies offered.
Therapy for Reminiscence

A powerful use of the “senses” to awaken the soul.
Recognize that the patient is “living on the inside.”
Individual and/or group design Sessions of Reminiscence Therapy
Choose activities and develop reminiscence themes and kits.
Written objectives and skillful documentation
Memory Aids/Books

Proven techniques for delivering functional and factual information in textual and graphic form Suggestions for distinct stages of life/”stages” of dementia

THE KEYS TO BEHAVIOR: COMMUNICATION SKILLS

Listening with Intention
Listening with empathy and emotional intelligence
Practice many successful verbal formulations.
Client-centered communication – Feeling Reflection Avoiding Pitfalls All participants in the interactive lab/case examples and discussion
Validation Therapy as a Communication Tool

Principles and suggestions for managing conflicts and power struggles
Accepting ideals, ideas, and realities without concern for accuracy
Managing hallucinations, delusions, hoarding, accusers and blamers
Discussion and interactive lab/case examples
Re-direction

Through dialogue, learn how to “agree” with what the patient wants/needs.
Safety, ambulation, hallucinations, and delusions case study
Discussion and interactive lab/case examples
Faculty

Ms. Jane Yakel, CCC-SLP Seminars and items that are related: 6 American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Speech-Language Pathologist

Jane Yakel, M.S. CCC-SLP, is a certified and licensed (VA #2202005215) Speech-Language Pathologist with over 40 years of expertise caring for people with neuropathology diseases. Jane is presently a private contractor and consultant in Virginia, where she has worked in acute care, outpatient clinics, home health agencies, skilled nursing homes, independent and assisted living facilities, hospitals, and schools. She has taught at Wyoming University, Utah State University, and DeVry University (Phoenix). She has worked as a regional clinical expert, a national trainer for rehabilitation program directors, and as the director of a traumatic brain injury community re-entry program. She has shared her knowledge as an author and presenter at national and state board continuing education courses on a variety of topics, including Prospective Payment System; Medicare Documentation; Ethics and Professionalism; Comprehensive Assessment of the Adult Patient; Quality Indicators: QA / QI; Customer Service; Nursing Documentation; Managing Dysphagia; Cognitive Rehabilitation and Dementia.

Jane has written two detailed manuals and useful guidelines on dysphagia and cognitive rehabilitation. Jane’s book, Dementia: Interventions for Severe Cognitive Impairments, provides extensive intervention options for professionals dealing with individuals who have drastically reduced cognitive status. The book is intended for a variety of healthcare fields as well as caretakers.

Jane is a member of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, has served as a representative for the America Speech and Hearing Association’s People to People Ambassador Program, and has previously served on the Wyoming Board of Examiners for Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology. She earned her undergraduate and graduate degrees in neuropathology from the University of Wyoming. Jane is presently the owner of two businesses: ProStar Communications, LLC, a professional communications firm, and Yakel Educations, LLC, a professional publishing firm.

Disclosures for Speakers:

Jane Yakel is the sole proprietor of ProStar Communications, LLC and Yakel Educations, LLC. PESI, Inc. pays her a speaking honorarium.

Jane Yakel is a non-financial member of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association.

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