Community-Based & Allied Health Professionals
The following free educational materials, tools, and local resources are designed for community-based organizations and allied health professionals that provide support and services to individuals living with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias, caregivers, friends, and families.
Free Alzheimer's & Dementia Training
- Alzheimer's Disease Public Health Curriculum
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Offers a 4-module introductory curriculum with an accompanying faculty guide designed for public health programs at schools.
Target Audience: Educators, practicing professionals, students. - Approaching Alzheimer's First Responder Training
Alzheimer's Association
Offers training videos on responding to calls with people living with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias and a certification of completion.
Target Audience: First responders. - Brain Health Academy
UsAgainstAlzheimer's
Provides free evidence-based courses on topics like obesity and dementia, diabetes and dementia, and hearing and dementia, to enhance the knowledge and support of professionals caring for people with dementia.
Target Audience: Health care and wellness providers. Continuing education credit available. - Dementia Care Training Course
Bureau of Health Workforce, Health Resources and Services Administration
This self-paced training includes 37 modules across four series: overview of dementia and health care provider roles, helping caregivers, addressing caregiver needs, and nursing home training.
Target Audience: Primary care practitioners, health professions faculty, students, members of a geriatrics care team, direct service workers. - Dementia Curriculum
Act on Alzheimer's
Offers a 10-module curriculum on Alzheimer's disease and related dementias with an accompanying facilitator guide and topics on cognitive assessments, screenings, and ways to provide caregiver support.
Target Audience: Educators, practicing professionals, students. - Social Work and Dementia Training Presentation
USC/Rancho California Alzheimer's Disease Center
Find a PowerPoint presentation focused on strengthening social worker's knowledge about Alzheimer's disease and related dementias and highlighting their role in supporting people and families living with dementia.
Target Audience: Social workers - Training Videos for First Responders
Alzheimer's Los Angeles
Offers four training videos on responding to people with memory problems while stopped in traffic, wandering, home confrontation, and house calls.
Target Audience: First responders.
Resources to Support Brain Health and Dementia Friendly Communities
- Brain Health Resources for Community Based Organizations
Administration for Community Living
Offers resources for promoting brain health in the community.
- Community Sector Guides
Dementia Friendly America
Offers guidance and on creating Alzheimer's disease and related dementias friendly communities across multiple sectors including businesses, faith communities, libraries, and more.
- Healthy Brain Habits: Reducing Your Risk for Alzheimer's Disease Curriculum (English/Spanish)
Alzheimer's Los Angeles
This packet contains a presentation and 2 public-facing tip sheets. The course provides tips to keeping your brain healthy and reducing the risk of Alzheimer's and related dementias and was designed for Latino and African American communities living in South Los Angeles. To request training to deliver this curriculum and access to the facilitator's guide, please email permission@alzla.org. For other inquiries, please email classes@alzla.org.
- Mobilizing Faith Communities in the Fight Against Alzheimer's
UsAgainstAlzheimer's
Offers information and resources in creating Alzheimer's disease and related dementias friendly faith communities.
- Nourish Nutrition Project
Stanford Medicine
Provides free, culturally tailored resources that empower Filipino, Indian, Vietnamese, Chinese, and Japanese communities on ways to adapt and modify traditional dishes to meet their health goals.
Communications and Field Practice Toolkits
- Advance Care Planning and Dementia Social Media Toolkit, 2023
Los Angeles County Department of Public Health
The purpose of this social media toolkit is to raise awareness about the advance care planning process, highlighting the benefits of planning ahead for people living with dementia, their families, and caregivers. This toolkit features sample social media messaging, images, and videos in both English and Spanish.
- Brain Health and Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias Awareness Social Media Toolkit
Los Angeles County Department of Public Health
This toolkit includes social media content and graphics to help promote brain health, increase awareness about Alzheimer's disease and related dementias, and support caregivers. Graphics are available to download for Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.
- Dementia Resource Toolkit for First Responders
City of Los Angeles Department of Aging
Offers tips, educational information, and resources for first responders such as law enforcement officers, firefighters, EMTs, and paramedics on engaging individuals with dementia and their caregivers in the community.
- Early Detection of Dementia Social Media Toolkit
Los Angeles County Department of Public Health
The purpose of this toolkit is to raise awareness about the early detection of dementia and help combat the stigma commonly associated with Alzheimers disease and related dementias. This toolkit features sample social media messaging and images in both English and Spanish.
- Handbook for Helping People Living with Alone with Dementia Who Have No Known Support
National Alzheimer's and Dementia Resource Center
Offers guidance and tools on working with individuals with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias that live alone.
- Mind Your Risks Health Campaign
National Instiute on Aging
Find information and resources about controlling high blood pressure, and the connection between blood pressure and keeping the brain healthy.
- Supporting People with Dementia: A Resource Guide for Social Workers
Los Angeles County Department of Public Health
Offers information and resources that enhance the knowledge and skills of social workers working with people living with dementia, their families, and caregivers.
- The Heart-Brain Connection Social Media Toolkit
Los Angeles County Department of Public Health
This toolkit includes social media content in English and Spanish, including messaging, images, and videos. It emphasizing the link between heart health and brain health.