DementiaLiveTM Training

DementiaLive^TM is a sensitivity awareness training program provided through the Age-u-Cate Institute. Participants can experience what it is be like to live with dementia and cognitive impairment, building awareness of the condition’s symptoms and gaining an in-depth understanding of the neurodegenerative disease.

The training helps participants to improve communication and decrease misunderstanding with patients and their families. It also advocates for person-centered care. Right at Home Salem and Marblehead introduced the training to Salem, Haverhill, and Somerville in the summer of 2016. Since then, hundreds of medical professionals including nurses, case managers, caregivers and social workers had completed the program.

Dementia Education for Communities in Salem

Facilitators of the training program include Celeste Begley, Community Relations Director and Victoria Guskiewicz, Community Relations Coordinator of Right at Home Salem and Marblehead. All staff members of Right at Home Salem and Marblehead have also completed the training program. DementiaLive^TM is currently offered to all Right at Home caregivers as part of their on-the-job training.

As a part of our effort in educating our community of senior care, DementiaLive^TM had been offered to numerous caregiver support groups in the local areas Right at Home Salem and Marblehead serves. Interested party can contact Community Relations Coordinator Victoria Guskiewicz at (781)-568-0623 or email her at vguskiewicz@rightathomemass.com for more information.

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The program meets the requirements of the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Nursing at 244 CMR 5.00 for 1 contact hour. It has also been pre-approved by The Commission for Case Manager Certification to provide continuing education credit to CCM board certified case managers. Right at Home Salem and Marblehead is an approved provider of continuing education, social work education, and continuing case manager education by the NASW-MA chapter and the Boston College and Simmons College Schools of Social Work. Please contact Celeste Begley at Right at Home Salem and Marblehead at (781)-548-0017 for the status of CE accreditation.

Two CEU credits for this program will be provided by Right at Home Salem and Marblehead.