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16/08/2025

Webinar on Grant to Growth: Building Sustainable Dementia Services, Supports, and Training
Tuesday, September 9, 2025 | 1:00-2:00 p.m. ET

Federal grant funding for dementia programs - though time limited - can play a critical role in jumpstarting and maintaining vital services and supports. However, achieving long-term sustainability requires careful planning from the outset.

In this webinar, participants will hear from a community-based organization that successfully leveraged funding from ACL to create and implement dementia programs that have continued beyond their federal grant period. Presenters will explain practical strategies for embedding dementia best practices into enduring, community-based care systems. The session will also highlight a new National Alzheimer's and Dementia Resource Center (NADRC) report that offers actionable insights and real-world examples of sustained dementia initiatives at both the state and community levels.

Presenters

Jill Cigliana, MSOT, OTR/L, Executive Director, Memory Care Home Solutions
Melissa Hunter, MSW, Research Public Health Analyst, Aging, Disability, and Long-Term Care Program, RTI International
NADRC webinars are free of charge and open to the public. Webinars are recorded and will be available for viewing on the NADRC website. Pre-registration is required to attend the live webinars. Closed captioning is available during the live event and is included in the recording for all NADRC webinars.

If you have questions, please email NADRC-Webinars@rti.org.

13/08/2025

https://www.khca.org/education/education-calendar/?ill_calendar_event_id=19080
Nursing Documentation Practice Expectations

Wednesday, August 27, 2025

2:00 PM - 3:30 PM

$55 for Members | $110 for Non-Members

Accurate and thorough nursing documentation is critical in nursing homes, ensuring high-quality resident care, legal protection, regulatory compliance, and effective communication among healthcare providers. This presentation explores the best practices for nursing documentation, highlighting key principles such as clarity, completeness, timeliness, and adherence to regulatory standards. Attendees will learn strategies to improve documentation efficiency while maintaining compliance with healthcare policies, reducing errors, and enhancing resident outcomes. The session will also cover common challenges in nursing documentation and practical solutions to ensure records accurately reflect the care provided.

Whether you’re an experienced nurse or new to long-term care, this presentation will equip participants with essential skills to refine documentation practices and enhance resident care in nursing homes.

Learning Objectives:

· Participants will understand the importance of documentation by recognizing how accurate nursing documentation impacts resident care, legal protection, and interdisciplinary communication.

· Participants will understand how to implement key principles such as clarity, completeness, timeliness, and adherence to regulatory standards in daily documentation by applying best practice.

· Participants will develop strategies to improve documentation workflow without compromising accuracy or resident safety.

· Participants will understand how to identify and follow federal, state, and facility-specific regulations governing nursing documentation in nursing homes.

· Participants will learn common documentation pitfalls and how to avoid them to minimize miscommunication and enhance care quality.

· Participants will utilize effective documentation techniques that support collaboration among healthcare teams and provide continuity of care.


Presented by:

· Linda Farrar, RN, LNHA

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07/04/2025

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Very interesting article!
https://yb.alzheimersweekly.com/4-antidepressants-speed-up-dementia-decline/?fbclid=IwY2xjawI1ZsZleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHW8nS6ByqOHpl3_xJ2_wLkjXEF2-CstJkczogjDY1LmhevDNs0XWr4P1Mw_aem_-7g5KDlNWWU-exb9VmuM8Q

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Federal regulators should nursing home staffing to the metrics they use to rate facilities for consumers, researchers recommended.

12/12/2024

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Residents who were prescribed antipsychotics were found to have increased bad behaviors compared to those who were not given such drugs.

20/11/2024

Opportunity for family/unpaid caregivers of residents with dementia

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07/10/2024

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The use of antidementia and antipsychotic drugs for treating nursing home residents with dementia varies considerably across the United States, suggesting the need for better guidelines for healthcare providers to follow in prescribing those medications to residents, according to a new study.

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