Professional Development Resources Releases New Online CE Course on Alzheimer's Disease

Professional Development Resources (PDResources) adds a new online continuing education (CE/CEU) course to their extensive online catalog: Alzheimer’s Disease Progress Report: Intensifying the Research Effort
 
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Sept. 24, 2013 - PRLog -- Professional Development Resources (PDResources), a nationally-approved (APA, NBCC, ASWB, AOTA, CDR) provider of online continuing education (CE) is pleased to announce a new course on Alzheimer's disease to its extensive online course catalog for psychologists, social workers, counselors, marriage and family therapists (MFTs), occupational therapists (OTs) and registered dietitians (RDs).

Alzheimer’s disease is an age-related brain disorder that gradually destroys a person’s ability to remember, think, learn, and carry out even the simplest of tasks. Alzheimer’s is a type of dementia, a broad term for diseases and conditions that damage brain cells and, over time, impair brain function. Alzheimer’s causes once-healthy brain cells, or neurons, to lose their ability to function and communicate with each other. Eventually, they die.

Typically diagnosed in people age 60 and older, in extremely rare cases the disease occurs in people in their 30s, 40s, and 50s. The first symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease typically include memory loss or other cognitive problems, such as trouble with language or decision-making. As cognition continues to decline, people may experience disturbing changes in personality and behavior. In the final stage of Alzheimer’s dementia, people lose the ability to recognize family and friends and become totally dependent on others for daily care. Ultimately, Alzheimer’s disease is a terminal illness.

Research shows that Alzheimer’s causes changes in the brain years and even decades before the first symptoms appear, so even those who seem free of the disease today may be at risk. The fight against Alzheimer’s is urgent because, without new ways to prevent or more effectively treat this age-related disease, it will become increasingly prevalent in our aging population.

This new course from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) focuses on research findings reported and projects funded in 2011 and the first half of 2012. These highlights, prepared by NIH’s National Institute on Aging (NIA), the lead institute within NIH for Alzheimer’s research, covers work by an active scientific community. This work aims to elucidate the basic mechanisms and risk factors of Alzheimer’s disease, and then apply this knowledge to the development and testing of new interventions to treat or prevent Alzheimer’s disease.

Learn more @ https://www.pdresources.org/course/index/6/1168/Alzheimers-Disease-Progress-Report-Intensifying-the-Research-Effort

Professional Development Resources (https://www.pdresources.org/) is approved by the American Psychological Association (APA) to sponsor continuing education for psychologists; the National Board of Certified Counselors (NBCC ACEP #5590);  the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB Provider #1046, ACE Program); the American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA Provider #3159); the Commission on Dietetic Registration (CDR Provider #PR001); the California Board of Behavioral Sciences (#PCE1625); the Florida Boards of Social Work, Mental Health Counseling and Marriage and Family Therapy (#BAP346), Psychology & School Psychology (#50-1635), Dietetics & Nutrition (#50-1635), and Occupational Therapy Practice (#34); the Illinois DPR for Social Work (#159-00531); the Ohio Counselor, Social Worker & MFT Board (#RCST100501); the South Carolina Board of Professional Counselors & MFTs (#193); and the Texas Board of Examiners of Marriage & Family Therapists (#114) and State Board of Social Worker Examiners (#5678).
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