Understanding Alzheimer's Disease

*This course has been pre-approved by NCTRC for 5 clock hours.

Learn to better understand and treat Alzheimer's Disease and other dementias. Learn about the different types of dementias, the signs and symptoms of dementia, preventative measures for dementia, and recreational therapy treatment ideas for specific deficits with someone who has dementia.

Course Objectives

  • Learner will demonstrate adequate insight of the various types of dementia

  • Learner will demonstrate adequate insight of the causes of the various types of dementia

  • Learner will demonstrate adequate insight of the most effective treatment options for people who have various type of dementia

  • Learner will demonstrate adequate insight of how Recreational Therapy can be used to treat dementia

  • Learner will demonstrate adequate insight of the the signs and symptoms of dementia

Nathan Lamaster, CTRS

Instructor Bio:

Nathan Lamaster is a nationally Certified Therapeutic Recreation Specialist (CTRS) from Tyler, Tx who has started a handful of both TR and non-TR businesses throughout his career as well as worked in a variety of TR settings as a practitioner. His current TR businesses are SMART CEUs Hub (an online, NCTRC pre-approved source for Recreational Therapy continuing education), CEU Cloud (a mobile phone application for managing your continuing education transcripts/CEUs), and the Rec Therapy Directory (an ultimate resource site for Recreational Therapists). He also has a passion for seeing TR entrepreneurship grow and is both the author of the book “The Entrepreneur Rec Therapist: The Business Education You Missed In School” as well as the creator/moderator for the TR Entrepreneur Connection Facebook group that connects RT entrepreneurs/educates them. Besides these TR businesses, he is also the inventor/creator of the Pill Puncher which is a medical device that opens up blister packs of medication both effectively and sanitarily.

Nathan Lamaster, CTRS

Founder Of SMART CEUs Hub