DementiAbility Methods

This workshop is being presented by DementiAbility and aims to help dementia care partners (from all disciplines and departments in all settings) understand the connections between the brain, life story, environment and behaviour. The learner will be introduced to innovative, multidisciplinary, evidence-based, non-pharmacological interventions for dementia. Most importantly, the workshop participant will learn how to think differently about dementia. The goal is to understand:

• how memory impacts dementia - differentiating between memory loss and spared capacity
• the importance of “knowing the person” and how this impacts behaviour and “What to do”
• how to address needs
• how to set each person up for success, enhance function, enable abilities, engage each person in a world with meaning, purpose, leisure and pleasure
• how to generally help each person be the best they can be

This is a workshop you will not want to miss!