Dementia Behaviors – ACEU 2025

What You’ll Learn in This Lesson

 After taking this lesson, you’ll learn the following:

1. Redirecting dementia residents away from their hallucinations
2. What to do when the resident exhibits repetitious behavior
3. Feeding your residents who are in different stages of dementia
4. Recognizing what can trigger a dementia resident to be excited sexually
5. What to do when a resident is “sundowning”
6. What to do when a resident refuses to take his/her medication
7. Calmly approaching and distracting your resident from wandering.
8. Actions to take if the resident with dementia is apathetic or mildly depressed
9. How to handle aggressive behavior in residents with dementia