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NEW! Biomarkers and Alzheimer’s Science

4 CE hrs. $12
This course covers recent scientific research on Alzheimer’s disease, including biomarkers that have been identified, modifiable and genetic risk factors, drug research, studies on the effects of different kinds of care, and discoveries from basic science research.

New! Ethics for Licensed Professional Counselors and National Certified Counselors

2 CE hrs. $6
This short Ethics course is based on the Code of Ethics by NBCC – The National Board of Certified Counselors. It’s applicable to all Licensed Professional Counselors and National Certified Counselors.

New! Generation Alzheimer’s

2 CE hr. $6
This basic course is intended to provide participants with information about the personal, social and economic costs of Alzheimer’s Disease now and in the coming half-century, and why we should support research on finding a cure.

New! Screening for Drug Use in Medical Settings

10 CE hrs $30
This course is intended to provide in general medical settings the screening tools and procedures necessary to conduct screening, brief intervention, and/or treatment referral for patients who may have or be at risk of developing a substance use disorder.

New! Supporting Families Impacted by Mental Health, Substance Abuse, and Trauma

10 CE hrs. $30
Besides the difficult task of raising children—often while working full-time, many caregivers deal with added stressors such as mental health problems, substance abuse, and a history of trauma. The aim of this course is to build a responsive community: a community that has as its goal to respond as sensitively to the needs of a family as a committed caregiver does to his or her child.

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Judy Warzenski didn’t realize how bad her father, Donald’s, memory had gotten until he turned to her sister Joyce and asked, "Where’s the girl who was sitting next to you?" He did not recognize Joyce as his own daughter.

This Thanksgiving, Warzenski and her younger siblings will eat Thanksgiving dinner with their father in a private dining room at a nursing home in Pennsylvania. Moving her father there in October was an agonizing decision.

"It’s really very upsetting to me," said Warzenski, 62, of central New Jersey. "I promised him I would never do this. I promised him I would never put him in a nursing home, which I’ve come to realize is an unrealistic promise."

Warzenski is one of many baby boomers who must watch their loved ones suffer from Alzheimer’s, the most common form of dementia. The condition, which robs people of their memory and thinking skills, necessitates tough decisions about caring for people as their minds slowly slip away.

"Often, the baby boomers are thrust into the position of caring for a loved one with dementia because that loved one declines and needs 24-hour supervision," said Laura Wayman, a dementia care specialist and author of "A Loving Approach to Dementia Care."

Full story of thanksgiving with Alzheimer’s at CNN Health

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LGBT Cultural Competence in Hospital Settings

This course describes and recommends a number of practices and strategies that health care providers and hospitals can implement to begin building trust and making the health care environment more welcoming, inclusive, and safe for LGBT patients and their families. Putting these practices and strategies in place can serve to improve healthcare and increase wellness for all people who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, and/or transgender. 10 CE hrs. $30.

Prevention of Sexual and Intimate Partner Violence

This course is taken from a planning guide developed by the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control and the Centers for Disease Control and prevention. It’s an effective and comprehensive program based upon a multitude of approaches to prevent sexual violence and/or intimate partner violence. This guide describes how to develop, implement and evaluate a training process utilizing your available resources. 8 CE hrs. $24.

Sexual Harassment in the Workplace

This primer was originally written for attorney’s as a way to advise their clients on how to address sexual harassment in the workplace. This is an extremely useful tool and full of valuable information for any business. Covered topics include: recently strengthened federal law governing sexual harassment and suggested policies and procedures for establishing and implementing a sexual harassment policy. 2 CE hrs. $6.

Schedule II Controlled Substances

This course is based on The Controlled Substances Act and taken from the larger manual and course titled: Drugs of Abuse. The CSA places all substances which were in some manner regulated under existing federal law into one of five schedules. This placement is based upon the substance’s medical use, potential for abuse, and safety or dependence liability. 3 CE hrs $9.

Tips for Caregivers of People with Alzheimer’s

This course is a support guide for caregivers of Alzheimer’s patients. It offers “best practices” for people who have taken on the role of caring for someone with Alzheimer’s disease. It includes ways to minimize stress and make the most of all of the situations such people encounter daily, such as communication, bathing, dressing and eating, and exercise. It covers how best to deal with common Alzheimer’s patient issues, e.g., sleep problems, hallucinations and delusions, and wandering, as well as such topics as home safety and doctor visits.
1 CE hr $3.

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This week, health care professionals and scientists from around the world met in Vancouver to present the latest cutting-edge research on Alzheimer’s disease for the annual Alzheimer’s Association International Conference. There was a lot of buzz about new studies, including drug advancements that could be potential treatments in the future. But for the average patient with Alzheimer’s, or for their caregivers, it’s easy to get lost in the abundance of abstracts and scientific minutia.

The ravages of the disease — memory loss, mood swings, depression and poor judgment, to name just a few — not only affect the 5.4 million Americans with Alzheimer’s but also the 15 million-plus unpaid men and women who care for them. Symptoms of the disease can manifest themselves differently in each patient, but ultimately most people living with Alzheimer’s will end up unable to function independently. They will have to rely on spouses, siblings, children, friends, neighbors or paid professionals for help.

"Alzheimer’s disease is really difficult for everybody, and families can really struggle," said Beth Kallmyer, vice president of constituent services at the Alzheimer’s Association.

Full story of care for Alzheimer’s at CNN Health

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Finding drugs that can halt or reverse the effects of Alzheimer’s disease is one of the holy grails in pharmaceutical research.

While the already-approved Aricept and Namenda medications have shown promise for temporarily easing symptoms, what’s desperately needed are treatments that will reverse or prevent the brain decline produced by Alzheimer’s.

Researchers are seeing promising results of the first long-term clinical trial that measured stabilization of Alzheimer’s symptoms, including thinking, memory, daily functioning and mood. The early stage results were presented at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference in Vancouver, British Columbia, this week.
The treatment, Gammagard by Baxter, is an intravenous immune therapy that is already approved for treating other immune disorders and infections.

The small study of Gammagard included 16 subjects with mild to moderate Alzheimer’s disease who were in the first part of the trial and agreed to continue the study for three years.   What’s exciting about the results of this trial is that doctors say  four of the patients who continued treatment at the highest dosage showed a stop in the worsening of symptoms, making this small study the first to report symptom stabilization without decline over that longer time span.  Larger studies will begin later this year.

Full story of alzheimer’s therapy at CNN Health

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