1. Special care programs: challenges to success -- 2. Training staff to work in special care -- 3. Programming and activities -- 4. Clinical issues in advanced dementia -- 5. Sexuality in the special care unit -- 6. Strategies in the care of veterans with dementia -- 7. Family concerns -- 8. Interior design/renovation of the special care unit -- 9. Maximizing reimbursement for special care programs -- 10. Research update in Alzheimer's disease -- 11. Innovations in special care programs -- 12. The future of special care programs