speaker's forum

Assisted has a team of experienced public speakers who are available to speak on a wide variety of topics, listed below. There is no charge for these presentations. Many programs can be tailored to either the professional or lay audience. Continuing education units are available for some presentations.

Home Health Care

• Care Plan Oversight for Physicians
• Advanced Directives
• Home Health Care: What it Is and Isn’t
• A Day in the Life of a Home Care Nurse

Private Duty Care

• Pediatric Private Duty Care
• Transitioning the Ventilator Dependent Patient
  from Hospital to Home
• What to Expect from Private Duty Nursing
• Understanding Medi-Cal Waiver Programs

Holistic Health

• Holistic Nursing: An Overview
• Holistic Health Interventions for Alzheimer’s Disease/Dementia Patients

Hospice

• The History of Hospice and Palliative Care in America
• The Medicare Hospice Benefit
• Pain-Management with the Terminally Ill Patient
• Pain Assessment Tool for People with Advanced Alzheimer’s Disease and Other Progressive Dementias
• Non-Pain Management and Symptom Control in Terminally Ill Patients
• Dignified Care of the Actively Dying Patient
• Communication with Compassion: How to Break Bad News
• How to Communicate Terminal Illness to the Patient (A program designed for physicians.)
• Death and Dying
• Hospice Care in the Skilled Nursing Facility: Collaboration of Care
• Hard Choices for Loving People
• Hospice Billing Procedures for Physicians
• Grief and Loss
• Transitioning the Patient from Home Care to Hospice

Other Topics

• Trouble-Shooting Hearing Aides (A c.e.u. program for facility employees.)
• How to Maximize Your Residual Hearing, or, “I Hear Fine, Everybody Mumbles”
• Alzheimer’s Disease – An Overview
• Alzheimer’s Disease – Tips and Tricks for Memory Loss
• Alzheimer’s Disease – Care for the Caregiver
• Alzheimer’s Disease – Managing Challenging Behavior
• Alzheimer’s Disease – Update of Research and Treatment Options