Practical Strategies for Managing Behavioral Health Needs of Nursing Home Residents
This one hour training has been designed to support the implementation of facility-wide and individual need based best practices within long term care facilities. Strategies introduced for supporting residents with serious mental health conditions include educating staff on conditions, understanding the importance of accurate diagnoses, and taking different approaches on “good” and “bad” days. The […]
Mental Health and Aging Issues
This self-paced course is designed for health and human service providers working with older adults, costs $120, and provides four hours of continuing education credits. This training provides an introduction to mental health concerns impacting older adults more broadly, but does touch on serious mental health conditions (SMHC). Relating to SMHCs, the training educates providers […]
Improving Social Functioning and Health Self-Management in Older Adults with Serious Mental Illness
When working with older adults it is important for practitioners to distinguish the sometimes overlapping symptomatic expressions of dementia and serious psychiatric disabilities. This hour and a half webinar highlights diagnoses, symptoms, risk factors, and care practices for practitioners working with older adults who may have a serious psychiatric disability, dementia, or both. View webinar […]
Implementing a Behavioral Health Ambassador Program
The role of a behavioral health ambassador, their importance to a nursing facility, and tools for implementing this role are outlined in this webinar. Effectively recruiting, training, and maintaining these staff members is vital for the success of such a program to support nursing facility members with mental health and substance use challenges. View training […]
Gentler Journeys: Easing Transitions of Care for Patients with Serious Mental Illness
Transitions of care between acute care, nursing homes, and community settings can be difficult. This webinar shares challenges and supports for making discharges and these transitions as smooth as possible for older adults with serious mental health conditions. Communication between all members of the interprofessional team is vital for facilitating these transitions, and presenters discuss […]
Effective Strategies for Managing Psychotropic Medications in Nursing Facilities
Sharing updates to Centers for medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) guidance, this webinar outlines requirements for convenience and chemical constraints, informed consent, gradual dose reductions, and critical element decisions for practitioners prescribing psychotropic medications in long-term care facilities. Best practices for psychotropic medication management and strategies for implementing a psychotropic medication stewardship team in a […]
Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services (CLAS) Implementation for Behavioral Health Equity in Nursing Facilities
Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services (CLAS) are introduced in this thirty-minute webinar along with the 15 action steps to support their implementation in long-term care facilities. The increased presence of individuals with psychiatric disabilities in nursing facilities indicates the need for incorporating these health equity promoting CLAS. View video This training library was supported by […]
Clinical Confounds and Conflations: Serious Mental Illness, Dementia, or Both
When working with older adults it is important for practitioners to distinguish the sometimes overlapping symptomatic expressions of dementia and serious psychiatric disabilities. This hour and a half webinar highlights diagnoses, symptoms, risk factors, and care practices for practitioners working with older adults who may have a serious psychiatric disability, dementia, or both. View video […]
Challenges and Evidence-based Practices for Older Adults with Serious Mental Illness in Long-term Care
For providers working with older adults with serious mental health conditions (SMHC), it is extremely important to understand how the increase of aging Americans will impact the care provided for this population in long-term care settings. Dr. Steve Bartels provides an overview of mental health care needs of this group along with co-occurring conditions that […]
Artificial Intelligence and Geriatric Psychiatry: Developing New Paradigms
This webinar introduces the emerging presence of AI-based technology in geriatric psychiatric care, including its potential impacts on the diagnosis, intervention, and monitoring of serious mental health conditions for older adults. Specifically discussed is the role of digital phenotyping in the prevention and early detection of late-life psychiatric disabilities. Gaps and opportunities for artificial intelligence […]