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June 16, 2025 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Virtual Explore Art with Jano

Virtual Event

Join us for another insightful Explore Art with Jano, a virtual art appreciation program. This session we will focus on nature, specifically trees. Sturdy and protective, trees provide us with shelter, oxygen and they have also served as inspiration for the visual and literary arts.

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June 16, 2025 @ 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm

TEACH Program (Training, Education, and Assistance for Caregiving at Home)

Virtual Event

The TEACH Program consists of 4 weekly group sessions that focuses on common caregiving themes; self-care, healthcare system navigation, relationship changes and future planning. The program coaches care partners in practical communication and coping skills, and provides an opportunity to share and learn from other care partners.

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June 17, 2025 @ 9:00 am - 12:00 pm

Palliative Care in Dementia Program

Virtual Event

This training program is aimed at enhancing the knowledge of frontline staff in caring for people with dementia using a palliative care approach. This program focuses on promoting quality of life and comfort for individuals living with dementias and their families, with particular emphasis on late stage and end of life.

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June 17, 2025 @ 10:00 am - 11:30 am

Advanced Care Planning

Virtual Event

This workshop will review the importance of Advance Care Planning, and the steps involved in the process, in the case where one becomes mentally incapable of making their health care decisions.

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June 18, 2025 @ 2:30 pm - 4:30 pm

The Community Connections Cafe – Yonge and Eglinton

Alzheimer Society of Toronto Head Office 20 Eglinton Ave West, 16th floor, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

The Community Connections Café is a welcoming space where people with memory loss or Dementia, and their care partners, can come to connect with others and support their brain health while socializing. 

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June 19, 2025 @ 9:00 am - 5:00 pm

Gentle Persuasive Approaches (GPA) Training

Alzheimer Society of Toronto Head Office 20 Eglinton Ave West, 16th floor, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

GPA Basics is a 4 module evidence-based education session designed for team members who care for older adults who display responsive behaviours associated with dementia.
The GPA curriculum will educate staff on how to use a person-centred, compassionate and gentle persuasive approach and to respond respectfully, with confidence and skill to responsive behaviour associated with dementia.

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June 19, 2025 @ 2:00 pm - 3:45 pm

ROM Tour, Talk & Tea

Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) 100 Queens Park, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

A one-hour guided tour of a gallery at the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) followed by a conversation over tea and cookies for people living with dementia and their caregivers.

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June 19, 2025 @ 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm

Frontotemporal Dementia Caregiver Support Group

Virtual Event

This monthly support group will provide an opportunity for care partners of individuals living with Frontotemporal dementia to come together to support each other through the caregiving experience.

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June 19, 2025 @ 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm

Adult Child Caregiver Support Group

Virtual Event

This monthly open support group will provide an opportunity for care partners of a parent diagnosed with OR suspected of having cognitive impairment to come together to support each other through the caregiving experience.

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June 20, 2025 @ 10:30 am - 11:30 am

Brain Health

Toronto Public Library - Jane/Sheppard Branch 1906 Sheppard Avenue West, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

This session's goal is to enhance your awareness of the risks of someone living with dementia going missing and some reasons why this may happen.  Learn more about how you can help people with dementia live safely within the community and how to interact with someone who may be lost.
This session is hosted at the Toronto Public Library - Jane/Sheppard Branch.

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June 21, 2025 @ 7:00 pm - 10:30 pm

Community Event: Night Owl

The Supermarket 268 Augusta Ave, Toronto, ON, Canada

Meet our third-party event organizer, Night Owl, who will be playing Rock N’ Roll favourites in support of the Alzheimer Society of Toronto.

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June 23, 2025 @ 11:00 am - 1:00 pm

Putting You First for Care Partners

Virtual Event

This interactive 2-hour workshop will help participants reflect on all aspects of their well-being.
Through this guided reflection process, participants will identify opportunities for change and start creating a plan to attaining better balance in their lives.