Jane Yakel – Innovations in Dementia Rehab: A Multidisciplinary Guide to Staging & Interventions
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Jane Yakel – Innovations in Dementia Rehab: A Multidisciplinary Guide to Staging & Interventions
- Faculty:
- Jane Yakel
- Duration:
- 1 Hour 54 Minutes
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Copyright:
- Jul 28, 2018
Description
In this recording, you’ll explore the top interventions and goal-setting strategies used by leading clinicians in the field of dementia. Walk through a differential diagnosis of all degenerative neurological disorders, and learn how to stage a patient’s dementia with accuracy to assure safety and appropriate expectations. Practice time-tested communication strategies for each stage of dementia that can help prevent social withdrawal by reducing feelings of distress and helplessness.
Step-by-step directions with live demonstrations will give you the confidence and skills to achieve functional goals with patients of all levels, as well as document functional outcomes and justify goals necessity.
Handouts
Outline
Accurately Stage Patients with Dementia – the Seven Clinical Stages of Dementia
- Clinical name
- Clinical signs & symptoms of stages
- Mental ages of each stage
- Treatment/interventions for each stage
Incorporate Successful Interventions
- Errorless learning techniques
- Spaced retrieval
- Montessori-based dementia programming
- Reminiscence therapy
- Ability-based approach
- Written goals
- Case studies
Faculty
Jane Yakel, M.S., CCC-SLP
Speech-Language Pathologist
American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
Jane Yakel, M.S. CCC-SLP, is a certified and licensed (VA #2202005215) Speech- Language Pathologist with over 40 years of experience in the care of persons suffering from neuropathology disorders. Jane is currently a private contractor and consultant in Virginia and has worked in a variety of settings including acute care, outpatient clinics, home health agencies, skilled nursing homes, independent and assisted living facilities, hospitals and schools. She has taught at the University of Wyoming, Utah State University and DeVry University (Phoenix). She has been a regional clinical specialist and a national trainer for rehabilitation program directors and has served as a director of a community re-entry program for traumatic brain injury survivors. She has shared her expertise as an author and presenter at national and state board continuing education courses on various topics including, Prospective Payment System; Medicare Documentation; Ethics and Professionalism; Comprehensive Assessment of the Adult Patient; Quality Indicators: QA / QI; Customer Service; Nursing Documentation; Managing Dysphagia as well as Cognitive Communication Disorders in the Neurological Impaired; Cognitive Rehabilitation and Dementia.
Jane is the author of two comprehensive manuals and informative guides in the field of Dysphagia and Cognitive Rehabilitation. Jane’s book on Dementia: Interventions for Severe Cognitive Impairments gives detailed intervention strategies for professionals working with patients who suffer from significantly decrease cognitive status. The book is tailored for multiple disciplines within the healthcare field as well as caregivers.
Jane is a member of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, served as a representative for the People to People Ambassador Program for America Speech and Hearing Association and is a prior member of the Wyoming Board of Examiners for Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology. She completed her undergraduate and graduate studies at the University of Wyoming, specializing in neuropathology. Jane currently owns ProStar Communications, LLC, a professional communications company, and Yakel Educations, LLC, a professional publishing company.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Jane Yakel is the owner of ProStar Communications, LLC and Yakel Educations, LLC. She receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc.
Non-financial: Jane Yakel is a member of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association.
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