The “MDCP Montessori Dementia Care Professional” is the best place to start for professional care partners, long term care administrators, or anyone that wants a comprehensive introduction to Montessori for dementia. The 6-hour course is easily completed online from your home or office. If you are from an organization and looking for in-person training opportunities, please send a message via our contact form or by email to stacey@cen4ard.com.

What you’ll learn:

Current models of care and the need for culture change
Review of the care model consumers are increasingly demanding and expecting for memory care: resident-driven communities
Background and overview of the Montessori-based approach to providing new model of memory care
Demonstrations of how the Montessori-based approach makes person centered care feasible and sustainable
Emphasis on dementia as a disability and not a disease
Enabling persons with dementia to utilize existing abilities to engage in personally meaningful activity
Using Montessori approaches to engage persons with dementia in meaningful activity throughout the day
Empowering staff in all departments to effectively engage with persons with dementia as part of an overall culture of delivering person-centered care
Methods of creating supportive social and physical environments to support independence and meaningful engagement
Enabling persons with memory impairment to be actively engaged with the outside world, their communities and culture
Action planning for effective implementation and sustainability of the Montessori approach