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Transform primary care and long-term care settings to be age-friendly and dementia-friendly. Deliver community-based education and training to improve dementia care and support. See below for the many ways OkDCN can help support professional and family caregivers.
- 105 S. Bryant Suite 210, Edmond, 73034, OK
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Jul 11, 2024 · With the Oklahoma Dementia Care Network, OU is working to improve the quality of life for older adults through several primary objectives: helping staff at existing clinics and nursing homes become more skilled in caring for people with dementia; placing current OU nursing, medicine and social work students in rural clinics and nursing homes ...
Sep 12, 2022 · Issues may include schizophrenia, bipolar, and dementia. They may have experienced incremental periods of sadness and grief that culminated into a deeper depression until being addressed at Autumn Life Center.
Jul 31, 2024 · A second round of federal grant funding to the University of Oklahoma will allow the school to expand its work with rural and tribal nursing home employees caring for residents diagnosed...
Jul 10, 2019 · To enhance care for the growing number of people with Alzheimer’s and other dementia, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has awarded the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center a $3.75 million grant.
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Aug 27, 2024 · During the first iteration of the grant, accomplishments include training 1,578 nursing home direct-care workers in dementia-specific care; supporting 10 primary care clinics and 9 nursing homes as they achieved national Age-Friendly Health System recognition; training 586 family caregivers; creating a dementia training program for community ...
Oklahoma Dementia Care Network's Project ECHO specifically focuses on age-friendly nursing home and community care topics. These sessions will help professional and family caregivers gain important skills and capabilities designed to improve care for older Oklahomans living with memory disorders, including Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias.
