America is aging, with those 65 years and older estimated to account for 20% of the population by 2030. With aging comes chronic disease and many older adults possess two or more. The inability to appropriately manage these chronic disease processes leads to debility and increase use of medical services. Dementia is a chronic disease, which the majority of health care providers fail to recognize especially those dementing processes that affect the frontal lobe and executive cognitive functioning. The purpose of this capstone project was to describe the Advanced Practice Nurses’ (APN) attitudes concerning executive cognitive impairment (ECI) and knowledge regarding dementias of the frontal lobe, Type 2 dementia. The rationale for the project was that an educational intervention to APN’s would increase recognition of Type 2 dementia, ECI, in the APN. The goal of this capstone project was to successfully implement an educational intervention on the internet for APN’s concerning ECI and Type 2 dementia. Objectives were, first, to determine the level of the healthcare provider’s knowledge, regarding ECI, frontal lobe dementia, Type 2. Second, describe the demographic characteristics of APNs’ who elected to participate in an online educational intervention program. Third, describe the APNs’ attitudes about ECI and knowledge regarding dementia of the frontal lobe, Type 2, before participation in an online teaching intervention. Fifth, measure changes in attitudes about ECI and knowledge regarding dementia.
