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By 2030, older Americans will make up 20% of the population. Increasingly, you will be called upon to identify dementia and assist with treatment planning for your clients with memory complaints. What constitutes “normal aging” and how does it differ from Alzheimer’s and other pathologies? How do you distinguish among these disorders, and what is Mild Cognitive Impairment?
What can you share with your clients about the role of nutrition and exercise? And what about ginkgo and other natural supplements – can we recommend these from an evidence-based treatment perspective? Join Dr. Nowell for this seminar recording designed to help clinicians identify, support, and treat the client with memory complaints.
OBJECTIVES
- Describe the clinical presentation of the most common subtypes of dementia
- Distinguish normal aging from memory disorders
- State risk factors for the development of dementia
- Form treatment plans with greater sensitivity to the needs of clients with dementia
OUTLINE
Types of Dementia
- Mild Cognitive Impairment – a new diagnosis?
- Alzheimer’s
- Vascular type
- Frontotemporal type
- Dementia with Lewy bodies
- Alcohol-related memory disorders
Identifying the Client with Dementia
- What questions to ask in the interview
- Signs of early dementia, or milder memory disorder
- Providing real support for the “worried well”
- How to use the mental status exam to assess for dementia
- What is “functional impairment”?
- Clinical evaluation or pseudodementia
- Appropriate medical referral regarding reversible causes of cognitive changes
Supporting and Treating the Dementia Client
- How to make use of other professions – Neurology, Neuropsychology, Geriatric Case Management, etc.
- Community support programs and services for your clients with dementia
- Involving spouse and family in treatment
- Dealing with resistance among family members of the newly diagnosed client
- Adult children, dementia, and “unfinished business” in the family of origin
- Managing the substance abuser with dementia
- Ethical issues related to providing, and billing for, services to clients with dementia
- Overview of guardianship and conservatorship
ABOUT DAVID NOWELL, Ph.D.
David Nowell is a clinical neuropsychologist with extensive experience in diagnostic evaluation. In addition to maintaining a private practice, Dr. Nowell provides dementia and competency consultations to physicians in an acute rehabilitation hospital setting and provides feedback and treatment planning for clients and families coping with memory disorders. He provides consultation in an inpatient psychiatric setting for difficult clinical presentations involving both psychiatric and dementia elements.
Dr. Nowell speaks nationwide to clinicians on the topics of clinical interview procedures, risk assessment, and ADHD/Processing Disorders. His research interests include cultural competency in the clinical interview and the impact of traumatic brain injury on social and vocational functioning.
Dr. Nowell earned his doctorate at the University of Alabama and completed an internship program in neuropsychology at Tulane University Medical Center.
CONTINUING EDUCATION INFORMATION
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This self-study activity qualifies for 1.5 contact hours.
TARGET AUDIENCE
Counselors, Social Workers, Psychologists, Psychotherapists, Therapists, Addiction Counselors, Marriage & Family Therapists, Case Managers, Nurses, Other Mental Health Professionals
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