PALTC23 Conference Recordings FR04 Resident Engagement in Care Interactions Among Residents with Dementia: Promoting Positive Care

Resident Engagement in Care Interactions Among Residents with Dementia: Promoting Positive Care

This session will provide review barriers to effective, positive care interactions and delineate the factors associated with positive care interactions. Specifically, it will focus on the association between resident engagement and quality of staff-resident care interactions, and provide findings on characteristics of care interactions among nursing home residents living with dementia. In addition, the session will provide practical approaches and suggest interventions to increase positive care interactions between staff and residents while eliminating negative and neutral care interactions.

Learning Objectives:

At the completion of this session, learners will be able to:

  • State the evidence based factors that are associated with quality of care interactions.
  • State the evidence based relationship between resident engagement and quality of care interactions among nursing home residents with dementia.
  • Apply evidence based approaches and interventions to increase positive care interactions and reduce negative and neutral care interactions among residents living with dementia through case studies.

Rachel McPherson, PhD

Rachel McPherson, PhD, is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Maryland School of Nursing. Her research focuses on quality of care interactions between long-term care staff and residents with dementia.

Barbara Resnick, PhD, CRNP

Barbara Resnick, PhD, CRNP, is a professor in the school of nursing at the University of Maryland and the Sonya Ziporkin Gershowitz Chair in Gerontology and combines clinical work as an advanced practice nurse in a CCRC with teaching and research. Her research is focused on optimizing function and physical activity among older adults.

E​lizabeth Galik, PhD, CRNP

Elizabeth Galik, PhD, CRNP, is a professor at the University of Maryland School of Nursing and the Chair of the Department of Organizational Systems and Adult Health. She provides clinical care to patients in a variety of settings focused on optimizing mental health.

  • 1.25 CME
  • 1.25 CMD Management
  • 1.25 MOC

Release Date: 03/29/2023   |   Expiration: 03/01/2026

Credit Statements:

Accreditation: Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medical Association is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians. 

CME Designation: Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medical Association designates this enduring material for a maximum of 1.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

CMD Credit Hours: This CME activity has been pre-approved by the American Board of Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine (ABPLM) for up to 1.25 management hour(s) toward certification or recertification as a Certified Medical Director (CMD) in post-acute and long-term care medicine. Each physician should claim only those hours of credit actually spent on the activity.

The CMD Program is administered by the ABPLM. For further information, contact ABPLM at 410-992-3117 or at cmd@paltmed.org.

ABIM Maintenance of Certification (MOC): Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 1.25 Medical Knowledge MOC points and patient safety credit in the American Board of Internal Medicine’s (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program.

Participants will earn MOC points equivalent to the amount of CME credits claimed for the activity. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit.

Financial Disclosure Statement:

The Association requires the disclosure of all speaker/faculty/planner’s relevant financial relationships; presence of off-label use of a device or medication; and discussion of any experimental, new or evolving topic prior to each accredited education activity.

If the learner perceives any bias toward a commercial product or service, advocation of unscientific approaches to diagnosis or therapy, or recommendation, treatment, or manners of practicing healthcare that are determined to have risks or dangers that outweigh the benefits or are known to be ineffective in the treatment of patients please report this to the Association's staff.


The following speaker(s) disclosed relevant financial relationship(s): 

  • Julie Gammack, MD, CMD (Planner & Speaker): Stockholder: Amarin
  • Kenya Rivas Velasquez, MD, CMD, FAAFP (Planner & Speaker): OptumRx: Stockholder
  • All other planners, speakers, and AMDA staff have no relationships with ineligible companies.

All relevant financial relationships have been identified and mitigated.

Components visible upon registration.