Memory Care Training for Assisted Living

Add Memory Care to Retain More Residents and Grow Your Home

When a resident develops dementia, most assisted living homes have to send them somewhere else. It’s hard on the resident, the family, and your business.

This course teaches Residential Assisted Living professionals the business, system, and home design to ad memory care to keep them and care for them even when their memory goes.

Why Add Memory Care

Elevate Your Home, Keep the Residents You Already Serve, and Give Them Better Care

You’ve built a successful assisted living home. Memory care is the next level of that business: the same house and the same team, prepared to serve residents whose needs are changing.

01 Retain Your Residents

When an assisted living resident develops dementia, they usually have to move, and their family has to start over somewhere new. A home prepared for memory care lets them stay as their needs change, which means longer stays and fewer beds to refill.

02 Elevate Your Home

Memory care is a higher level of care, and it is typically priced at a higher monthly rate than standard assisted living. The house, the kitchen, and much of your team stay the same, so the upgrade builds on what you already have.

03 Take Better Care of People

Many families arrive after a stay elsewhere that didn’t deliver what was promised. Trained caregivers and a home designed for residents living with dementia let you give them what was missing, and those families tell other families.

“Yes, memory care does bring in higher bed rates. But at the end of the day, the quality of care we’re providing becomes the change, and you get to be a part of that.” — Dana Robinson

What you will be able to do

A Calmer Home, A Steadier Team, and Residents Who Stay

Residents Accept Care Instead of Resisting Caregivers

A startled resident defends themselves, and bathing, dressing, and transfers turn into incidents that injure staff and push residents out of your home. The see, hear, then touch sequence and Hand-under-Hand, demonstrated for greeting, guiding, and oral care, help your caregivers start with connection so residents cooperate.

You Identify Resident Changes Before They Become Emergencies

When every caregiver on every shift records each resident’s gem state, you replace verbose language with one word indicators informing the next person what the resident can do today. Sudden shifts become alerts for medical evaluation. Handoffs get faster. Families see your team as proactive.

Fewer Falls, Calmer Residents, Happier Families

Efficient Mealtime that Preserves Dignity

Every resident who can still feed themselves frees a caregiver and keeps a skill that matters to them. Adaptive utensils, plates, and cups matched to each resident’s needs, along with plates that contrast with the food, extend that independence.

Residents Are Engaged with Programming Not Agitated

Residents without a purpose drift into boredom and agitation that your staff then has to manage. Montessori principles for dementia and the use of music give them meaningful roles in the household, which makes days calmer for residents and easier for caregivers.

Higher Job Satisfaction and Greater Staff Retention

Staffing is the hardest part of memory care, and every departure costs you money and continuity with residents. Get real-life models for recruiting through your current caregivers. Learn how to watch candidates with residents before hiring, so you build a team that cares about the people it serves.

Growing with Memory Care Curriculum

Twelve Sessions, From First Principles to Hands-On Demonstrations

Each session pairs what to know with what to do, including exercises you can run with your own caregivers.

01

Welcome and Instructor Introduction

Why your instructor, Dana Robinson, gathered her dementia training into one course

02

What Is Considered Memory Care?

Dementia as brain change, and the staffing model that sustains care

03

Assisted Living vs. Memory Care

Structure, caregiver demands, security, technology, and home design

04

Typical vs Atypical Aging

How the brain takes in information, with two staff exercises

05

Professionals and Community Partners

Coordinating physicians, pharmacies, hospice, and home health

06

Case Studies of Thriving Memory Care Residents

Residents who thrived when the home met them where they were

07

Stages of Dementia and the GEMS Model

Teepa Snow’s GEMS model and how professionals use it in daily documentation

08

The Montessori Method for Dementia

Twelve principles, followed by a Q&A with Dr. Cameron Camp and Gary Johnson

09

Mealtime Support and Adaptive Dining

Tools and table settings that extend independence

10

Hand-Under-Hand Demonstration

Physical demon strations of effective touch including offer, slide, hold, and turn, standing and seated

11

Hand-under-Hand for Oral Care

Brushing teeth with a resident instead of brushing teeth for him

12

Color, Contrast, Design, and the Senses

Room critiques, the chair test, lighting, and scent

From Operators Trained by Dana Robinson

What Professionals Say

“A really enlightening experience, learning how much slower I need to go and how things just take a lot longer to process. I’ve learned that I need to be more verbal and be slower.”

Janae

“Unbelievable experience. The knowledge that I now have of the disease, I wish I would have had it sooner.”

Scott and Michelle

“Very eye-opening. Dana takes a great approach. I like how she presents the information and then we get involved. She makes it easy for us to visualize or feel what it will be like for a patient.”

Stefanie

I now have much more compassion and empathy for my clients. Now I have a lot more tools and training so important for anyone who is providing memory care. I am really excited to be able to use all of this in the home I start.

Reba

Your Instructors

Taught By Operators Who Run Memory Care Homes

Dana Robinson

Registered Nurse and Care Home Operator

Dana has operated care homes for years and sought out specialty dementia training along the way. She is a Positive Approach to Care Certified Trainer and Consultant and a Second Wind Dreams Virtual Dementia Tour Certified Trainer, and she teaches the methods she uses in her own homes.

Jamie Robinson

Co-Founder, RoundBox Equity

Jamie operates homes with Dana and manages them remotely across multiple states using cameras, fall alerts, and electronic medication records. He covers how memory care differs from assisted living in daily operations and home design.

Special Guest Instructors

Dr. Cameron Camp and Gary Johnson of the Center for Applied Research in Dementia and Dr. Lorn Miller, Board Certified Neurologist.

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Start Growing with Memory Care

$795

Do What’s Best for Your Residents and Your Business

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