Home Health Aide (Dementia)
Hybrid-based
ONET: 31-1011.00
1
Years
20
Skills
700h
On-the-job training
Classroom instruction topics
- Alzheimer’s disease and related Dementia’s; stages, early signs, treatments, physical changes
- Psychoactive medications in dementia and cognitively impaired adults
- Developing a therapeutic environment for the cognitively impaired client
- Support and resources for family and caregivers
- Role of the HHA Dementia Specialist with family caregivers and the health care team
On-the-job training
- Role of the HHA in caring for cognitively impaired clients
- Use care plan for interventions and report successful interventions to supervisor and family
- Monitor and document episodes of targeted behaviors and/or new behaviors
- Recognize signs of stress and strategies for coping within self other caregivers and family members
- Demonstrate effective communication & interaction with cognitively impaired and their families
- Demonstrate redirecting a client
- Demonstrate use of validation therapy
- Verbalize and demonstrate various approaches for a client who is resisting personal care that will maintain dignity and respect
- Demonstrate appropriate interventions for client who is yelling or screaming
- Demonstrate therapeutic communication with significant others
- Demonstrate coaching techniques to help other caregivers and family members cope with the Dementia process
- Provide assistance with independence, mobility, and therapeutic activities
- Demonstrate use of therapeutic activities/exercises to maintain joint function for the cognitively impaired client
- Implement care strategies that encourage independence in activities of daily living without increasing client anxiety, respect the clients dignity and desire for control
- Implement therapeutic activities appropriate for early, middle, and late states of Dementia
- Demonstrate use of therapeutic activities to de-escalate a client who is anxious
- Uses nutritional interventions to enhance nutritional well being
- Demonstrate adapting meal preparation to maximize nutritional intake (i.e., offering small servings, finger foods, introducing foods one at a time, frequency meals, snacks, and fluids that are acceptable to cognitively impaired clients)
- Explain modifications needed to maintain nutritional status
- Psychoactive medications and side effects
- Describe basic features of psychoactive medications and their side effects
- Demonstrate ability to observe, record and report side effects
- Maintain a safe environment for cognitively impaired
- Maintain a safe environment for wandering clients
- Maintain safety from potential toxic substances that the confused client may attempt to ingest
- Is able to implement interventions to minimize environmental stimuli that may increase a confused client’s agitation, (i.e., noise levels, large groups, television, and radio)
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