Afternoon Breakouts (1.0 CEU)
2:00p - 3:00p
Survey & Certification Team Updates
Michael Fleming, RN
& S&C Survey Team
NH DHHS
The members of the C&S Survey team will talk about recent regulatory updates, survey trends, and current happenings with CMS.
Assisted Living…Trends and Happenings
Licensure Survey Team
NH DHHS
The clinical team will address sections of the He-P 804 and 805 rules and changes, trends observed, and provide education regarding the trends and inspections.
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Do You Speak Dementia?
Cheryl Barnes, RN
The Peabody Home
People living with Dementia experience a progressive brain failure. Teepa Snow, nationally recognized speaker and expert in Dementia, has stated, "We all are living with Dementia, those who live on the inside and those who live on the outside", hence, her term "Care Partners", which she uses in the specialized program she has developed, “The Positive Approach to Care”.
At present there is no current cure for Dementia. We are going to all be affected by it in our lifetime, either on the ‘inside or the outside’ of the Disease. Dementia will become more prevalent, affecting 1 out 2 people age 85 or older within the next decade.
Today’s seminar will address how we can improve the quality of life both for persons living with Dementia and their Care Partners by focusing on what they have left rather than on what they have lost.
The seminar will increase your understanding of why the perception of people living with dementia differs from your own.
This workshop presents several highlights from Cheryl Barnes’ full day workshops regarding Dementia.
Cheryl Barnes, RN, CDP, CADDCT has worked with elders for more than 38 years, mostly as a Director of Nursing Services. For the past 20 years, she has been DNS at Peabody Home in Franklin, NH.
Cheryl is a founding member of NADONA-NH (National Association of Directors of Nursing Administration in NH) and has served on the Executive Board for more than 25 years. She was recognized, by NADONA, as the Nurse Leader for the Northeast Region in the USA, for the year 2018.
Cheryl became certified by the (NCCDP) National Council of Certified Dementia Practitioners as a (CDP) Certified Dementia Practitioner and a (CADDCT) Certified Alzheimer's Disease and Dementia Care Trainer in 2018.
In 2019, she became Certified as a (PAC) Positive Approach to Care Trainer, a Teepa Snow program.
Cheryl has facilitated several supportive & educational sessions for families, friends and other care partners faced with the responsibility of walking this path. These have been hosted by Peabody Home, the First Baptist Church of Brentwood and the Franklin Visiting Nurses Association.
Until a cure is found, we all need to become more skilled in supporting people living with dementia. Cheryl's mission is to be part of providing the needed education to help accomplish this in a caring and compassionate way.
If interested in hosting a workshop, please contact Cheryl at cbarnes@peabodyhome.org for further information.