GA-DEM-MCC-100: Georgia 4-Hour Dementia Orientation

CECTE Georgia seal: 4-Hour Dementia Orientation

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This Georgia dementia orientation training is a four-hour dementia-specific orientation designed to address the topics identified in Ga. Comp. R. & Regs. 111-8-63-.19(1)(d)(i) (assisted living communities) and 111-8-62-.19(6)(a) (personal care homes): the nature, progression, and management of dementia; creating an environment that minimizes challenging behavior; identifying and minimizing safety risks; and techniques for successful communication. Required for all staff working in a Georgia certified memory care center, within 30 days of starting.

This course does not constitute approval by the Georgia Department of Community Health and does not transfer the employing facility’s responsibility for determining and documenting its own regulatory compliance.

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Before You Begin

1.1 Why you are here

1.2 What the rule requires

1.3 The four pillars

1.4 What a memory care center looks like, and why

1.5 What is expected of you, whatever your role

1.6 How this course works

Reflection: What Was Missing?

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2.1 What dementia is, and what it is not

2.2 A sorting tool, not a diagnosis

2.3 Four diseases, four patterns

2.4 Functional changes are disabilities

2.5 Best-practice guidance

2.6 Progression: what changes, and roughly when

2.7 “Management” does not mean medication

2.8 A word about the person underneath

Case study — Mrs. Walker

Case study — Mr. Carter

Reflection & Practice — Change from Baseline

Case study — Mrs. Okafor and the afternoon that was not sundowning

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3.1 Behavior is communication

3.2 Know-Me / Need / Trigger / Support

3.3 Designing the environment

3.4 P-A-C-E — when distress is already happening

3.5 Person-centered does not mean anything goes

3.6 The behaviors you will actually meet

3.7 The ten-second approach

3.8 Building the day around the person

Case study — the 4:00 p.m. pattern

Reflection & Practice — Behaviors You Will Meet

Applied activity — build a Know-Me profile (10 minutes)

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4.1 Observe, respond, escalate

4.2 The four safety lenses

4.3 Elopement in a certified memory care center

4.4 Objective documentation

4.5 Falls in depth

4.6 Exit-seeking in depth

4.7 Eating, drinking, and swallowing

4.8 Abuse, neglect, and exploitation

4.9 Emergencies and evacuation

Practice — Scenarios & Documentation

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5.1 The basics that carry most of the weight

5.3 Refusal without a power struggle

5.4 Communicating across culture and language

5.5 When families ask you to correct the resident

5.6 Non-verbal communication

5.7 Communicating across the stages

5.8 Talking about residents

Case study — “where is my mother?”

Practice — Rewriting What We Say

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Why CECTE

The training is practical, operations-focused, and designed for real-world use. CECTE programs focus on topics such as resident rights, staffing, documentation, medication oversight, incident response, survey readiness, dementia care, quality improvement, and leadership accountability.

CECTE’s goal is to help Assisted Living leaders and care teams better understand what compliance looks like in practice, how to document training and operations appropriately, and how to build systems that support safe, resident-centered care.