Mastering ADLs with Patience and Respect

Learn how to support residents in bathing, dressing, grooming, and toileting while maintaining dignity. Through step-by-step strategies, you’ll discover how patience and encouragement can transform routine care into meaningful engagement.

Creating Positive Mealtime Experiences

Explore how to design calm, supportive dining environments, adapt meals for chewing and swallowing difficulties, and honor residents’ preferences. These techniques reduce frustration, enhance nutrition, and encourage social interaction.

Safe & Supportive Environments

Discover how lighting, room design, personal items, and fall-prevention strategies shape daily life for residents with dementia. Small environmental adjustments can significantly reduce anxiety, confusion, and risk of injury.

About the course

As an RCFE administrator or care provider, you face the daily challenge of balancing safety, compliance, and compassion. Tasks like helping with toileting, managing mealtimes, or reducing fall risks can feel overwhelming when dementia adds layers of complexity. This course breaks down those challenges into practical, easy-to-apply strategies backed by Title 22 regulations and the latest evidence-based practices. You’ll learn how to preserve independence in ADLs, build positive mealtime routines, and create safe environments that truly support residents. The course provides not only the “what” but the “how”—showing you ways to reduce resistance, encourage participation, and foster dignity. Developed by experts in dementia and residential care, this training reflects decades of hands-on experience and up-to-date research. It’s designed to be straightforward, affordable, and immediately usable in your facility.

Dr. Anita Semple, DNP, MSN, RN, FNP

Founder & Lead Educator, SapphireBlue CEU & Consulting With over 30 years of hands-on experience in senior care, healthcare operations, and clinical nursing, Dr. Anita Semple brings unmatched expertise to continuing education for residential care professionals in California. She is a board-certified, doctorate-prepared Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP-BC) who has worked across nearly every care setting—including hospitals, home health, skilled nursing, adult residential care, and assisted living. As a former administrator and owner of a 72-bed Residential Care Facility for the Elderly (RCFE) in the San Francisco Bay Area, Dr. Semple understands not only the clinical demands but also the operational and regulatory challenges administrators and staff face daily. She has also served as the administrator of a large Visiting Nurse Association, gaining insight into home health compliance and management. Today, she continues practicing as a nurse practitioner, providing direct care to adult and geriatric patients in assisted living, board and care homes, and skilled nursing facilities. Her continuing education courses are built on real-world insight, evidence-based best practices, and deep respect for the professionals working in residential and long-term care. Every course is designed to be practical, compliant with California Title 22 regulations, and truly supportive of the learners who keep our most vulnerable populations safe and well.

Curriculum

6 Chapters · 15 Lessons

  1. 1

    Activities of Daily Living: Promoting Dignity

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      Course Overview

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      Activities of Daily Living: Promoting Dignity

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      QUIZ 1

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      Study Guide: Daily Life For Those with Dementia

  2. 2

    Dining with Dignity: Practical Approaches

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      Mealtime Strategies in Dementia Care

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      QUIZ 2

  3. 3

    Creating Dementia Friendly Environments

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      Living Spaces

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      QUIZ 3

  4. 4

    Daily Life with Dementia: Establishing Routines

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      Establishing Routines

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      QUIZ 4

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    Course Wrap Up

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      Course Completion and Next Steps

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      Course Feedback

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      Final Exam: Daily Life with Dementia

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    References and Resources

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      References

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      Dementia Resource Guide

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