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Dementia Care in Residential Care Facilities for the Elderly (RCFEs) and Miscellaneous Regulation Changes Information and Resources. This webpage serves as a hub for communications, resources, and documents related to this regulation package. The regulation package updates are effective January 1, 2025. This webpage will be regularly updated ...
this workforce, in fact, holds promise for effective dementia care management for California and other states. We examined the roles and implementation of DCSs in California and how the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) requirements for dementia care coordination are being met. We also assessed the workforce attributes
Oct 26, 2023 · CA New Staff Orientation Requirements for Skilled Nursing Facilities. While a minimum number of training hours on Alzheimers’ and Related Dementias are required in a C.N.A. Training program, required new staff orientation does not specify that new staff orientation must include training on dementia care.
dementia-specific education: California, Delaware, and Indiana require dementia-specific continuing education. (California also has a non-dementia-specific in-service requirement.) Arkansas, Maine, Ohio, and Texas require continuing education, which must include dementia care education.
As of January 1, 2016, all direct care staff at all residential care facilities for the elderly must have twelve hours of dementia care training, with six (6) hours completed before the staff person begins working independently with residents, and the other six (6) hours
but direct care staff in special care unit must have eight hours of dementia-specific training within the first 90 days of employment, plus eight hours of annual dementia-specific continuing education.
Ensuring an informed and effective dementia workforce is of international concern; however, there remains limited understanding of how this can be achieved. This review aimed to identify features of effective dementia educational programs.