Current through Register Vol. 47, No. 6, September 18, 2024
(1) All personnel employed by or contracting
with a dementia-specific program shall receive a minimum of eight hours of
dementia-specific education and training within 30 days of either employment or
the beginning date of the contract, as applicable.
(2) The dementia-specific education or
training shall include, at a minimum, the following:
a. An explanation of Alzheimer's disease and
related disorders;
b. The program's
specialized dementia care philosophy and program;
c. Skills for communicating with persons with
dementia;
d. Skills for
communicating with family and friends of persons with dementia;
e. An explanation of family issues such as
role reversal, grief and loss, guilt, relinquishing the care-giving role, and
family dynamics;
f. The importance
of planned and spontaneous activities;
g. Skills in providing assistance with
instrumental activities of daily living;
h. The importance of the service plan and
social history information;
i.
Skills in working with challenging tenants;
j. Techniques for simplifying, cueing, and
redirecting;
k. Staff support and
stress reduction; and
l.
Medication management and nonpharmacological interventions.
(3) Dementia-specific continuing education.
a. Except as otherwise provided in this
subrule, all personnel employed by or contracting with a dementia-specific
program shall receive a minimum of two hours of dementia-specific continuing
education annually.
b.
Direct-contact personnel employed by or contracting with a dementia-specific
program or employed by a contracting agency providing staff to a
dementia-specific program shall receive a minimum of eight hours of
dementia-specific continuing education annually.
c. Contracted personnel who have no contact
with tenants (e.g., persons providing lawn maintenance or snow removal) are not
required to receive the two hours of training required in
paragraph"a."
d.
The contracting agency may provide the program with documentation of
dementia-specific continuing education that meets the requirements of this
subrule.
(4) An employee
or contractor who provides documentation of completion of a dementia-specific
education or training program within the past 12 months shall be exempt from
the education and training requirement of subrule 69.30(1).
(5) Dementia-specific training shall include
hands-on training and may include any of the following: classroom instruction,
Web-based training, and case studies of tenants in the program.
