Tag: Care Partner
Learning Objectives:
- Exploring the nature of emotions
- Creating space for difficult emotions such as anger and guilt in caregiving
- Strategies to cope with challenging emotions
Please note this workshop is only for informal care partners (friends, family, etc) of a person living with dementia. This workshop is NOT for healthcare professionals.
Workshop will be presented using Zoom, registration required to receive link.
This workshop will help care partners of a person with dementia in mid-to-late stages to develop and participate in meaningful activities. The goal is to provide practical ideas on how participants can spend quality time together by identifying and drawing upon the person’s remaining strengths.
Learning Objectives:
- Understand the importance of meaningful activities for people with dementia or their family members
- Demonstrate importance of sensory stimulation for people with dementia or their family members
- Employ additional strategies and resources for creating meaningful activities for people with dementia or their family members
Workshop will be presented online via Zoom.
Registration is required to receive the Zoom link to participate.
This workshop will be facilitated in a two-part series. Part one will review the importance of Advance Care Planning, and the steps involved in the process. Part two will provide an environment for informal care partners to explore the tools necessary to facilitate Advance Care Planning conversations, which will incorporate an exercise to create a portion of an advance care plan for themselves.
Learning Objectives:
- Understanding Advance Care Planning and why it is important
- Learning about the steps involved in Advance Care Planning
- Understanding what a Substitute Decision Maker is, and how to appoint a Power of
- Attorney for Personal Health, and a Power of Attorney for Property
- Recognizing what capacity and incapacity mean in Ontario
- Developing tools to facilitate Advance Care Planning conversations
Join us on Thursday, March 26th and April 2nd, 2026
Please note this workshop is only for informal care partners (friends, family, etc) who are supporting someone in earlier stages of dementia, or who has Mild Cognitive Impairment. This workshop is NOT for healthcare professionals.
*There will be a screening component to join this series to ensure participant-program fit*. Screening will be from March 2nd-March 13th, 2026
Registration deadline is Tuesday, March 12th.
Series will be presented using Zoom, registration required to receive link.
For more information, contact Tsvetty at tkolarova@alz.to
This workshop provides an overview of behaviours in dementia and communicating in a supportive manner. It will focus on providing participants with the knowledge of how behaviours and communication can change over the course of the disease and ways to supportively communicate with a person living with dementia.
For care partners to a person living with dementia.
Learning Objectives:
- Recognize that behaviour is a form of communication
- Describe how dementia impacts communication
- Recall communication strategies that can be used to support people living with dementia
- Discuss the meaning of behaviours in dementia and ways to offer support
Workshop will be presented online via Zoom.
Registration is required to receive the Zoom link to participate.
Learning Objectives:
- Increase knowledge of MCI and the differences between normal aging, MCI and dementia
- Explore how MCI impacts individuals and families
- Learn how to optimize cognitive health
- Develop an understanding of supportive services in the community
This workshop will provide care partners with an overview of Alzheimer’s disease focusing on the importance of early diagnosis and illustrates the progression of the disease.
This session is intended for care partners to a person living with dementia.
Topics:
- Gain a greater understanding of the process of diagnosis and medications available
- Develop a better, over-all understanding of dementia
- Increase your knowledge of the stages and progression of Alzheimer’s disease
- Better the caregiver’s insight into the person with dementia (PWD)
- Learn about community services and supports
Workshop will be presented using Zoom.
Registration is required to receive the Zoom link to participate.
This educational workshop is for care partners of individuals living with dementia with a focus on looking at the lighter side of caregiving.
Learning Objectives:
- Explore looking and living beyond the diagnosis
- Create opportunities for joy and look at the lighter side of caregiving
- Evaluate the benefits of humour and having a positive outlook
- Assess the strategies and approaches for incorporating joy and humour into caregiving