Best for individual professionals who want to advance their careers, care strategies, and knowledge. CARES online training, certification, and optional credentialing allows you to stand out in the workplace.
Best for families. This program helps you reduce stress and feel confident in caring for your loved one. It’s rich with activities, resources, and videos of real experts, families, and people living with dementia.
HealthCare Interactive is an organization committed to improving dementia care for people living with Alzheimer’s disease and other progressive dementias.
Click on the video to hear John V. Hobday, CEO and Founder of HealthCare Interactive, talk about the personal impact Alzheimer’s disease has had on him and his family.
CARES® is an evidence-based, award-winning series of 10 online dementia care training and certification programs. Each program incorporates the easy-to-remember CARES® Dementia 5-step Method™ and incorporates additional evidence-based practices from the Alzheimer’s Association Dementia Care Practice Recommendations. CARES® has been proven to increase observable person-centered care, decrease anxiety in the person living with dementia, and decrease the use of antipsychotic medications.
Topics include person-centered care, background on Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias, understanding behavior as communication, safety topics (such as food and fluid intake, wandering, falls, and antipsychotic medication reduction), pain and how it impacts all care, dementia-related behavior, activities of daily living, end-of-life dementia care, serious mental illness, elder abuse awareness and prevention, and dementia care for families. The training is recommended for all staff, clinical and non-clinical. It will help your organization meet state and federal training requirements, and will provide an actual method to increase quality care and quality-of-life.
New in 2025! Train and certify 75% of your staff, and earn the national CARES® Dementia Affiliate designation! Use staff certification and your national CARES® designation in promotion and advertising for your organization.
