Dementia Care Partner Series

Join 6 weekly, 1.5-hour sessions to build:

Positive Approach to Care® Awareness, Knowledge, and Skills

that create quality of life for people living with dementia

Objectives:

  • Enhance awareness and knowledge of dementia.
  • Understand cognitive and functional ability changes throughout the progression of dementia.
  • Identify proactive interventions to promote well-being and reduce challenging situations.
  • Provide care partners with the ability to recognize unmet needs and the skills to change to better meet those needs for themselves and those they care for.
  • Develop a tool belt for supportive communication techniques and adaptive strategies.
  • Improve day-to-day interactions and develop effective hands-on care techniques.

 

Sessions Include:

      1. Response Ability – Introduction to brain change, ability changes, and helpful responses*
      2. Changes in Sight – Understand the dramatic impact of sensory changes and ways to support*
      3. Discerning Comprehension – Recognize if you are being understood and how to be understood*
      4. Getting Connected – Practice simple, effect techniques to enhance relationships and outcomes*
      5. Doing With – Learn the art of Care Partnering instead of Care Giving using abilities that remain*
      6. Challenging Situations – Expand a growing toolbox with problem solving for common scenarios*

*Subject to change as per needs and wants of the group*

 

Contact Jessica at jessica@withcaretraining.ca or (519)-274-9090 to inquire or book today.