Dementia Certification for Agencies & Facilities
Are you struggling to find dementia certification materials for your staff? Do you have high turnover due to burnout? Join our DAWN Partner program for access to the DAWN Method dementia certification course. This online dementia caregiver training consists of 36 videos and accompanying quizzes that will teach your caregiving staff how to work with dementia and avoid inadvertently causing negative behaviors.
Dementia Certification for Agencies & Facilities
Are you struggling to find dementia care training materials for your staff? Do you have high turnover due to burnout? Join our DAWN Partner program for access to the DAWN Method dementia certification course. This online dementia caregiver training consists of 36 videos and accompanying quizzes that will teach your caregiving staff how to work with dementia and avoid inadvertently causing negative behaviors.
Struggling to slow caregiver turnover?
Struggling to slow caregiver turnover?
When employees experience success and happiness at work, they stay longer. Yet working with people who are experiencing dementia is exhausting and difficult—unless you know how to recognize and work with the strengths and skills dementia does not take away. Understanding the emotional needs caused by dementia, and the skills people do not lose, will result in less stress for your caregivers and fewer negative behaviors. Using the tools of the DAWN Method will improve the environment for both your staff and residents.
Here's a sample video from the DAWN Partner Employee Dementia Certification course. Listen as Judy describes why person-centered dementia care works in a video topic from Lesson 1:
DAWN Partner program: What is included?
DAWN Partner program: What is included?
- "Preparing for Dementia" video series to help your clients' families work with you.
Sign up to preview the Video Series - Online dementia certification course for all staff: 36 videos and quizzes that can be watched as many times as needed for competency.
- Employees trained in strength-based, person-centered dementia care with two-year certification.
- Consultation and problem-solving with DAWN Trainers.
- DAWN Dementia Care Specialist Handbook for employee quick reference.
- Nationwide recognition as a DAWN Partner.
- Listing on the "Find a DAWN caregiver" page on the DAWN Method website.
- Use of the DAWN Partner logo on promotional materials.
Other dementia training resources
Other dementia training resources
BOOK (the “why”) – The Dementia Handbook: How to Provide Dementia Care at Home – This little book (108 pages) covers the philosophy of the DAWN Method and explains why it works. Many people find that just reading this short book has helped them to make the mind shift necessary to provide strength-based, person-centered care.- BOOK (the “how”) – Dementia with Dignity: Living Well with Alzheimer’s or Dementia Using the DAWN Method – This book is longer (247 pages) and goes into more detail on how to provide care. It covers all the tools of the DAWN Method in depth with many real life examples taken from Judy’s experiences working with her clients. In Dementia with Dignity, Judy also explains how the DAWN Method came to be and gives ideas for further study.
- BLOG articles (tips and thoughts on dementia care) – Explore our blog topics for helpful tips and stories on how to provide strength-based dementia care.
Most popular blogs:
- Dementia and the telephone
- Dementia and the calendar
- Behaviors aren’t the problem, it’s the emotions that cause them
- Shaping the mood in dementia
- There is a roadmap for dementia
- Be demented happily–live in the intuitive world
- How to enable choice, not restrict it
- Let’s talk about ABILITIES and dementia
BOOK (the “why”) – The Dementia Handbook: How to Provide Dementia Care at Home – This little book covers the philosophy of the DAWN Method and explains why it works. Many people find that just reading this short book has helped them to make the mind shift necessary to provide strength-based, person-centered care.- BOOK (the “how”) – Dementia with Dignity: Living Well with Alzheimer’s or Dementia Using the DAWN Method –This book is longer and goes into more detail on how to provide care. It covers all the tools of the DAWN Method in depth with many real life examples taken from Judy’s experiences working with her clients. In Dementia with Dignity, Judy also explains how the DAWN Method came to be and gives ideas for further study.
- BLOG articles (tips and thoughts on dementia care) – Explore our blog topics for helpful tips and stories on how to approach issues that arise with dementia care.
Most popular blogs:
- Dementia and the telephone
- Dementia and the calendar
- Behaviors aren’t the problem, it’s the emotions that cause them
- Shaping the mood in dementia
- There is a roadmap for dementia
- Be demented happily–live in the intuitive world
- How to enable choice, not restrict it
- Let’s talk about ABILITIES and dementia
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Providing dementia care is difficult and exhausting if you don't understand the emotional needs that are causing what we refer to as dementia-related behaviors, or which skills people continue to use.
Care agencies and facilities can lower staff turnover and burnout by training their staff how to work with the skills dementia does not take away. Become a DAWN Partner and have this person-centered, strength-based dementia caregiver training program at your fingertips.
Contact us today to learn more about DAWN dementia certification and becoming a DAWN Partner.