The American Parkinson Disease Association (APDA) has just launched Taking Care of the Person with Advanced Parkinson’s Disease©, a free, specialized online training course to help those who care for people with PD – particularly home health aides, nursing home staff, and visiting nurses – better understand the symptoms and challenges that come with advanced PD and how to best manage them.
If your family has healthcare professionals doing hands on care for your loved one with PD, share this new resource with them! Upon completion of the course healthcare professionals will feel better equipped to handle the challenging and complex obstacles that may come their way when caring for someone with advanced PD, and as a result, help the people they care for have a better quality of life.
The course presents an overview of PD, with a focus on the person with advanced PD. Each section provides information presented by experts in the field, followed by a brief quiz, and a final certification test. The course is provided free of charge and takes approximately one hour to complete. A certificate of completion will be provided to those who successfully complete the course. (One hour of CEU credit will soon be available. Those who complete the course now will be notified when CEUs are available.)
Taking Care of the Person with Advanced Parkinson’s Disease© is one of three free online training courses for professionals created by APDA. You can find them all at www.apdaparkinson.org/training.