Description
Participant Outcomes:
- Feel more competent to handle challenging situations;
- Contribute to a ‘person-centered’ atmosphere;
- Experience the joy of building relationships and communicating with older adults with dementia
Who Benefits from this training
- Caregivers of older adults living with Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias
- MDs, DOs, RNs, LPNs, CNAs
- Therapists, Social Workers
- Chefs, housekeeping staff, maintenance staff, in-home caregivers
- Family caregivers
19 short, online training videos: interspersed with interactive webinars:
- 1st In-person, 2-day live training to practice new skills
- +/- 16 weeks of practicum: practice what you have learned
- Interspersed with interactive webinars: get feedback on video-taped sessions; deepen knowledge
- 2nd in-person, 2-day training to practice new skills
- +/- 10 weeks of practicum: practice what you have learned
- Interspersed with interactive webinars: get feedback on video-taped sessions; learn from one another
Meet your Validation teacher
Craig Rukande, has been a Certified Validation Teacher since 2019 and has taught Validation Worker courses, online as well as in classroom sittings, he has served as an State Tested Nursing Assistant, Executive Director, Sr. Resident Care Coordinator of Memory Care, John Maxwell Team Life Coach & Mentor and Operations Specialist. Craig is currently Regional Director of Memory Care and Engagement. He lives in Westlake, Ohio with his wife and three children and enjoys watching
movies, traveling, family vacations, exercising, reading and drawing.
