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USI GWEP offers free online dementia training with Teepa Snow
Monday, March 29 - Thursday, April 1
USI GWEP offers free online dementia training with Teepa Snow
Monday, March 29 - Thursday, April 1 3/15/2021 | University Communications
The University of Southern Indiana’s Geriatrics Workforce Enhancement Program (GWEP) is hosting a free, online dementia care series for direct care providers Monday, March 29 – Thursday, April 1. The live, virtual learning is the result of a collaboration with Teepa Snow and her company, Positive Approach
® to Care (PAC), to improve the lives of people living with dementia and transform the culture of dementia care.
Snow, an occupational therapist from North Carolina, developed the PAC training model to support a skills-based approach to dementia education. She shares new information in a manner that anyone connected to dementia can understand brain change and ways to offer support.
USI joins initiative to bolster nursing homes during pandemic
USI joins initiative to bolster nursing homes during pandemic 2/5/2021 | University Communications
Thirty-one nursing homes have enrolled in the University of Southern Indiana’s cohort in a state-wide effort to assist facilities in dealing with COVID-19 and its challenges. USI is part of the Indiana Nursing Home COVID-19 Action Network (NHCAN) Extension of Community Healthcare Outcomes (ECHO), which seeks to improve COVID-19 preparedness, safety and infection control.
More than 230 nursing homes from across Indiana are participating in the ECHO project, led by the Indiana University School of Medicine and Indiana University Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health at IUPUI. In addition to USI, collaborators include the Regenstrief Institute, Parkview Health and the University of Indianapolis. The ECHO project is funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), part of t