Houston, TX - January 30, 31 & February 1, 2024

The NTG's evidence-informed Dementia Capable Care of Adults with Intellectual Disabilities and  Dementia is offered as a two-day "foundation" workshop or a three-day "Train-the-Trainer" workshop.  It is based on the NTG's evidence-informed national model Education and Training Curriculum on Dementia and Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities and is held at various locations across the United States and Canada.

2 Day Foundation Workshop:  The workshop is appropriate for any staff with direct or ancillary care responsibilities of older adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities in both disability-related, health care, and aging-related agencies.

Description:  The 2-day Foundation workshop covers the basics of providing dementia-capable care to aging adults with ID/DD who are at risk of or who have developed Alzheimer's disease or a related dementia.  The workshop begins with an overview of aging with intellectual disabilities, how the various forms of dementia present in adults with ID/DD, an overview of the NTG-Early Detection…