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5 lessonsAbout 34 minutesNo CE or licensure credit

Dementia care in residential care: what the rules ask of staff

Five short lessons on the California rules behind dementia care in an RCFE: the training hours the law requires, reading a behavior as a message, exits and wandering, night supervision, and where the current rules live.

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Written for

  • Facility leadership
  • Facility and direct-care teams
  • Caregivers and aides
Course version
2026.10.5
Text checked against its sources

Before you begin

What you will be able to do

  • For a new hire or a certified nurse assistant, state the dementia-care hours owed before independent work, within four weeks and each year, exactly as sections 1569.625 and 1569.626 set them.
  • When a resident with dementia acts in a new way, check and report the physical signs section 87705 names, and leave diagnosis and medicine to the licensed professional.
  • At an exit, follow the alert, delayed-egress and locked-door conditions of section 87705, and after an elopement make each report it names, on time.
  • In a home with fewer than sixteen residents, tell from the appraisal, a reappraisal or observation when one night staff person must be awake, and never count a device as staff.
  • Before teaching or repeating a dementia rule, check it against the current text and guidance on the CDSS dementia-care page.

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In this course

  1. The training the law requiresAbout 7 minutes · Not yet
  2. Read a behavior as a message, and check the body firstAbout 7 minutes · Not yet
  3. Exits, alerts, delayed egress and locked doorsAbout 7 minutes · Not yet
  4. Night supervision, and the limits of devicesAbout 6 minutes · Not yet
  5. Find the current rule before you teach itAbout 7 minutes · Not yet
  6. Course check · 10 questions0 of 5 lessons done

Sources

Sources behind this course

Each lesson lists the sources it uses. Open the original for the exact rule, form or instruction that applies to your work. The source library describes each one in more detail.

California Legislature

Health and Safety Code section 1569.625

The forty initial and twenty annual training hours for RCFE staff who help with activities of daily living, the dementia hours inside them, the topic list and the exemptions.

Where to look: Subdivisions (b), (c) and (d).

Open section 1569.625 on the Legislature’s site
California Legislature

Health and Safety Code section 1569.626

The twelve initial and eight annual dementia-care training hours for all direct-care staff.

Where to look: Subdivision (a)(1) and (a)(2).

Open section 1569.626 on the Legislature’s site
California CDSS

Residential-care regulations

The RCFE regulations, including section 87705 (care of persons with dementia), 87211 (reporting) and 87415 (night supervision).

Where to look: Title 22, Division 6, Chapter 8; sections 87705, 87211, 87415 and 87468.1.

Open the CDSS regulation library
California CDSS

Dementia care information and resources

The 2025 dementia-care regulation package: approved text, guide to the changes, flyer, PINs 24-09-ASC and 25-05-ASC, LIC 602A and the FAQs.

Where to look: Regulation resources, implementation resources, PINs, forms and FAQs.

Open the CDSS dementia-care page
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