Аннотация:Abstract Aliviado Champions are hospice employees selected by their agency to lead the local implementation of the Aliviado program. Accordingly, training and retention of champions are critical to hospices’ success (or failure) of program implementation. As of February 2022, we have trained 308 champions across 19 agencies; 94% of the champions agreed all learning objectives were met. A total of 144 champions (97 nurses, 27 social workers, 16 chaplains, and 5 providers) completed pre- and post-training dementia knowledge surveys, demonstrating significant improvements in dementia knowledge, attitudes, and confidences in 7 out of 10 domains post training (p<0.005). The champion turnover rate during COVID-19 (March 2020-Feb 2022) was 11%. In addition, we share our experience adapting the originally 2 full-day, in-person Aliviado Champion Training into a Zoom-based format in response to COVID-19 including strategies to prevent Zoom fatigue. We also discuss strategies to address turnover and rapidly onboard new champions during COVID-19.
