Dementia Capable Care Training
This highly interactive and evidence-informed workshop covers the basic concepts of support of an adult with intellectual disabilities and dementia. This training will be delivered by a NTG Certified Instructor, and is being offered through partnership with the WIPSI program through the Nova Scotia Department of Labour, Skills, and Immigration.
Topics include:
Introduction to Aging & ID
- Understanding Dementia in Adults with ID
- What is Dementia?
- How does it present differently in Adults with ID?
- Early Detection and Screening for Dementia in ID
- Obtaining a Diagnosis
- Health Care Advocacy for Adults with ID and Dementia
- Understanding Responsive behaviors associated with Dementia
- Non-pharmacologic Interventions
- Communication Tips & Strategies
- Adapting the Physical Environment
- Dementia Capable Homes
- Stage-based Considerations
- Bridging Aging and Disability Networks.
The goal of this workshop is to develop a greater understanding of dementia and its effects on people with intellectual disabilities, greater capacity to provide dementia-capable direct services to adults with ID and dementia, and knowledge of how to develop a dementia-capable environment and support.
The workshop is appropriate for any staff with direct or ancillary support responsibilities of older adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities in disability-related, health care, and aging-related agencies. (Direct Support Professionals, PSWs, Supervisors, Long Term Care personnel, Alzheimer Society, etc.)
This training will be held in HRM, registration details to follow.
