Dementia & Cognitive Care equips front-line caregivers to support clients living with Alzheimer's disease and other dementias in their homes and communities. Many home care clients have cognitive changes, and skilled, patient care measurably improves their quality of life and reduces distress for everyone. This course explains what dementia is and is not, how it affects memory, language, judgment, and behavior, person-centered and validating communication, supporting daily living, problem-solving challenging behaviors, and home safety for clients with cognitive changes. Behavior is treated as communication of an unmet need. The throughline is dignity through understanding: when you understand what the person is experiencing, you can meet the need behind the behavior instead of reacting to the behavior itself.