Mary E. Matthiesen: Preparing Yourself to Start the Conversation: Tips & Tools

Starting the conversation isn't easy for anyone. Ms. Matthiesen led an interactive activity to connect attendees to the 'why' of advance care planning and shared two tools for attendees to use when implementing community-based initiatives to increase advance care planning, including the "Take Charge!" toolkit that Mission Hospice & Home Care developed together with 13 other non-profits and agencies, as well as the Conversation Project's Starter Kit.
Updates on Dementia 2018 Objectives:
- Explain advances in Alzheimer’s research related to etiology, diagnosis, risk factors and treatment, and describe how research breakthroughs may impact care.

- Describe the latest empirical support linking cognitive impairment with anxiety in older adults and summarize the evidence base for treating late-life anxiety in the presence of cognitive dysfunction.

- Describe the multiple intersections between depression and dementia - that is, depression as a risk factor for dementia, depression as a premonitory symptom of dementia, depression as one of the behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia, and depression as a potentially treatable cause of dementia symptoms (pseudo-dementia).

- Discuss the association between antidepressant drugs and the development of dementia, and the evidence for efficacy of antidepressant drugs in persons with dementia.

- Describe some of the challenges of symptom management in individuals with a diagnosis of dementia and another mental health disorder, and discuss better practices for supporting these individuals and their families.

- Describe the relationship between caregiver depression and care recipient mortality in dementia, and identify factors that contribute to caregiver depression.

- Describe salient issues in early- versus late-stage dementia caregiving, as well as describe coping tools provided for caregivers through cognitive behavioral therapy.

- Identify strategies for implementing person-centered care across all care settings and throughout the disease course.

- Understand the importance of detecting dementia, medical management, and ensuring appropriate care transitions for long term care providers.

- Discuss shortcomings of standard advance directives when it comes to dementia and how to address these shortcomings with a dementia-specific approach.

- Explain basics of estate planning (wills, trusts, finance, health care, taxes) and long term care planning and benefits (including public benefits to pay for care).

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