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Compassionate Care Dementia Training

Building empathy and knowledge for positive outcomes in dementia care.

  • More than 90,800 Coloradans are estimated to be living with Alzheimer’s disease. See the Alzheimer's Fact Sheet for Colorado.

  • Education in effective dementia care techniques improves health outcomes and reduces stress for patients and providers.

  • Health professionals currently receive limited training in Alzheimer’s and other dementias; however, a 4-hour state mandated training is now required for direct care staff in residential care communities.
     

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THE PROGRAM

The Compassionate Care Training educates healthcare students and professionals on how to successfully interact with and provide appropriate care for the influx of dementia patients they will encounter in their careers.

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The curriculum focuses on building empathy and understanding of unique needs, disabilities and strengths of people living with dementia, paired with specialized approaches for communication and positive provider/patient interactions.

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The Compassionate Care Training Program is offered through Centennial AHEC serving 12 counties in NE Colorado.

CE credits available.
To schedule a dementia education experience contact:

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Wendy Abbott
MA, CDP,VDT®,SPECAL®

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Compassionate Care Training Specialist
970.214.6896
wendy@cahec.org

THE NEED

  • Half of primary care physicians report feeling unprepared to care for those with Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias.* Healthcare students receive limited training in dementia.​

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  • Benefits include better quality care and improved health outcomes for those with dementia and their caregivers, as well as increased wellbeing for providers.

*Alzheimer’s Association, 2023 & 2024 Alzheimer’s Disease Facts & Figures reports

Who is this for?

The Compassionate Care Dementia Training program can be tailored to a variety of healthcare professionals and students, and other professionals serving older adults. Contact us for details.

Help us grow this program with a gift!

While we will be rolling out the training in late 2024 to healthcare students in the four community colleges and two universities as well as all medical providers throughout our 12-county region, we are hoping to hire another CCI trainer (bilingual) to ensure sustainability of the program and to be able to offer the training in Spanish.

 

Training for the specialist takes a full year to complete and we need the funding to support this position as well as to keep the training free for healthcare students.

Dementia Resources

Care & Education

(websites, podcasts, live trainings, videos, newsletters, blogs, chat rooms and more)

Research

(diagnosis, treatments, studies, clinical trials)

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