Aging and Long Term Care
Workshops and certificate programs explore topics in gerontology
care management, cultural competence, nursing home administration
and person centered dementia case.
Aging and long term care workshops:
View chronological listing
Certificate programs
The Case Management Certificate
Program is a continuing education training series for professionals in the field of aging and long-term care. There are two levels of certificates: introduction to case management and advanced case management.
Professional Certificate Program on Mental Health and the Older Adult. This certificate program begins with the July 2008 Summer Institute on Mental Health and the Older Adult. The topic of these two one-day workshops are: fundamental assessment and treatment of mental disorders in the older adult. This advanced training program is for licensed practitioners and allied health and human service professionals that work with older adults.
Resources
We now have a Web page dedicated
to resources for professional
development in case management including the care
management certificate programs.
Audio series correspondence course
The nursing home administration
licensing exam preparation course is available on cassette or
CD.
Chronological list of workshops
2008:
April 3: Culture counts: providing culturally competent care
April 18: Health and psychosocial changes in aging
April 23: Essential care: improving medication management for older adults
May 8: Care that matters: providing person-centered dementia care
July 30: Understanding and assessing the dementias
July 31: Understanding and assessing late life mental disorders and symptoms
Other resources
The University of Wisconsin Institute
on Aging: http://aging.wisc.edu
Contact
Suzanna Castillo 608-263-3174 or 800-442-4617;
e-mail scastillo@dcs.wisc.edu.
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