Its innovative, evidence-based curriculum offers the potential to improve resident care, reduce direct care job stresses, and have proven outcomes that demonstrate a reduction in staff turnover rates for long-term care facilities (LTCFs). Participants learn skills to help them navigate some of the most challenging obstacles they experience in their daily engagement with older adults. The Engage with™ Older Adults Skills Training Program is an innovative instructor-led, immersive virtual skills training that provides long-term care staff and others that care for older adults a unique and engaging virtual skills training experience. The training emphasizes a person-centered approach, dispels myths, increases awareness, and promotes meaningful engagement BACKGROUND Their intentional instructional methods help participants better understand with whom they interact.
Topics include mental, behavioral health conditions, substance use and medication misuse, neurocognitive disorders, traumatic brain injury (TBI), de-escalation, and suicide risk identification. The Engage with™ Skills Training program uses an innovative gamification approach in a virtual environment to help student avatars develop the skills and understanding they need to engage in healthy relationships.
They are on a mission to expand the accessibility and effectiveness of skills training by offering a unique digital experience for participants to learn from live, certified instructors in an immersive virtual world. Engage with ™ Skills Training Programs is a non-profit organization with a 106-year legacy advancing innovative solutions to ensure a just, humane, and healthy society.