Dementia care at home: Raising knowledge and confidence to improve quality and decrease costs

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"The DSM-H program strives to improve the care confidence of HHC clinicians, and in turn, the quality of care delivered to people living with dementia," said Dr. Brody. "We developed the DSM-H primarily for the HHC interprofessional team of RNs, physical therapists, and occupational therapists, as they are the largest provider groups in HHC and provide complimentary but different care to people living with dementia utilizing different bases of knowledge and expertise."

The online interactive education modules were broken up into 45-90 minute blocks (total training time 4.5 hours) for ease of learning and to limit interference with work hours, and they were designed with a mixture of imagery and text with narrative voiceover. Content-specific questions that users had to correctly answer in order to proceed were included to reinforce the learning objectives of the modules.