Alzheimer's & Dementia Online Academy Course
AFA Partners in Care: Supporting Individuals Living With Dementia Training
Our signature 5½ hour professional training, which offers 5.5 CE credits, underscores the importance of building relationships in dementia care and provides trainees with critical knowledge and skills, conveyed in a convenient, modular format.
About this Course
- This 5.5 hour professional training underscores the importance of building relationships in dementia care and provides trainees with critical knowledge and skills, conveyed in a convenient, modular format. It also features perspectives and insights from renowned dementia care leaders and professionals, as well as families and individuals living with dementia. Individuals who complete the training and pass the associated exam may receive certification as an AFA Dementia Care Partner.
- This training is approved for 5.5 continuing education contact hours for licensed social workers by the Association of Social Work Boards and the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work.
- AFA Partners In Care: Supporting Individuals Living With Dementia ® was created by the Alzheimer’s Foundation of America. This program may not be reproduced in whole or in part without permission from the Alzheimer’s Foundation of America. Individuals seeking continuing education credits through AFA Partners in Care: Supporting Individuals Living With Dementia must view all program modules, pass the course exam, and complete the program evaluation in order to obtain credits—no partial credits will be awarded. All rights reserved.
- AFA Partners In Care: Supporting Individuals Living with Dementia Training, Course #3660, is approved by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program to be offered by Alzheimer’s Foundation of America as an individual course. Individual courses, not providers, are approved at the course level. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. ACE course approval period: 6/11/2021–6/11/2023. Social workers completing this course receive 5.5 General Social Work Practice continuing education credits.
- Alzheimer’s Foundation of America, Inc. is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0222.