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Dementia Requires Us To Communicate Differently

You'll Learn:

• The Changes That You Need To Make,
• The Reason Why You Need To Change 
• The Skills Needed To Be Successful.

It's Tough To Provide Good Care When We Can't Communicate Successfully.

You May Think You Know The Person That Needs Your Care,,,, But Chances Are You've Only Scratched The Surface

You'll Learn:

• How To Build An Arsenal of Important Details About Your Loved One That You Can Draw From To Enhance Your Care.
• How To "Plug In" These details to Improve Cooperation and Results.

You Must Know The Person You Are Caring For at an Elevated Level To Be Successful.  We'll Teach You How.

People With Dementia Are ALWAYS RIGHT.. so Re-Direction Is A Skill That Is a "Must Have"

You'll Learn:

• The "Art" of Successful Re-Direction. (The Skill)
• Steps In The Re-Direction Process.
• Use Re-Direction To Accomplish Your Desired Outcome.

It Never Pays To Argue or Disagree with Dementia Patients, So We Recommend Re-Direction.

Dementia Presents In a Vast Assortment of Behaviors - Some More Challenging Than Others.

You'll Learn:

• How to interpret behaviors
• Probing questions to ask to uncover the REAL need.
• Multiple Successful Tips to calm behaviors.
• How To React to Dementia -Driven Behaviors.

All Dementias Will Present with Multiple Challenging Behaviors.  It makes sense to get prepared!

The Power To Make a Choice is Something Every Person Should Retain

You'll Learn:

• How to structure your dialogue to empower your person with dementia to make their own choices.
• Ways to celebrate those choices
• How to react when the choice is non-traditional.

A Person with Dementia has lost so many capabilities, the ability to make choices for themselves is empowering... don't take it away!

Is It An Activity?  or Is it Delivering Appropriate Cognitive Stimulation?

What You'll Learn:

• What a cognitively stimulating activity looks like.
• How to plan great dementia friendly activities.
• How to execute effectively

It's essential that activities for people with dementia are multi-sensory, skill appropriate and facilitate success.  

Brain Change Impacts Our Eating Habits, Taste Preferences and Consumption

The Corrollation Between the Type of Dementia and Symptoms

The Brain Controls EVERYTHING.  Understanding How the Senses Are impacted Will Improve Your Care.

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