Objectives

After participating in this educational activity, attendees should be able to:
1. Understand the value and use of GEMs strategies in supporting patients with dementia throughout the hospital
2. Verbalize the GEM levels and best strategies to support each GEM
3. Demonstrate the use of Hand under Hand

Faculty

Jodie Genovese, M.ED., OTR/l
Occupational Therapist
Behavioral Health
Baystate Wing Hospital
Adjunct Professor at Springfield College

Faculty Disclosure

The design and content of Baystate Continuing Interprofessional Education ( CE ) activities support quality improvement in healthcare and provide fair and balanced views of therapeutic options.  Faculty or planner conflicts of interest are resolved before the educational activity.

None of the members of the faculty and planning committee for this educational event have commercial relationships with any entity producing, marketing, re-selling or distributing health care goods and services consumed by or used on patients.