Speaker
Laura Wayman
Session Details
A Loving Approach to Dementia Care - Raising Dementia Awareness Worldwide
Health Care & Home Care
Date: Tuesday, August 27, 2024
Time: 4:30 pm
Session Learning Objectives:
- By the end of this presentation, the participants will have the tools necessary to apply communication techniques that assist in restoring dignity and reducing anguish in people suffering with dementia, and provide hands-on solutions for common communication and behavioral challenges with those around them.
- By the end of this presentation, the participants will have an understanding of, not only, the importance of caring for themselves; they will also have valuable techniques to assist them in managing stressors in their lives. This presentation is designed to empower participants in a way that is refreshing, relieving and rewarding – moving from guilt to gratitude to goodness. When we, ourselves, are in a place of peace and calm, we naturally approach others with love, compassion, and acceptance – enriching the lives of others while deepening the precious moments in our own lives.
- By the end of this presentation the participants will understand and appraise the stages of emotional times past that people suffering from dementia can exist in. By practicing and putting to use all of our examples of affirming responses, they will acknowledge them in their dementia world, and guide their feelings to more of a cooperative and positive outcome. This will give the Care Provider the ability to adjust their presentation and approach to the place the dementia challenged may exist. Doing so in a relaxed, confident, and calm manner, will assist the emotional understanding and foundation needed in solving the behavioral challenges that can come up on a daily basis when dealing with the different stages of dementia.
A Loving Approach to Dementia Care-Raising Dementia Awareness Worldwide is a clarion call to action-positive, life affirming, constructive action that helps us better cope with a condition whose boundaries for now are essentially out of our control. This session is educational, entertaining and enjoyable and provides tools and inspiration to fight a battle where loss is not the inevitable outcome.