- Understanding Alzheimer's Disease and Dementia
- Defining Alzheimer's Disease and Dementia
- What Causes Alzheimer's Disease?
- Diagnosing Alzheimer's Disease
- Treatments for Alzheimer's Disease
- Experiences of the person with dementia
- Progression of the Disease
- Understanding the Basic Principles of Communication
- Basic Communication Skills
- Understanding Non-Verbal Communication
- Using Other Forms of Communication
- Understanding the Person with Dementia
- Daily Care Skills
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Part 1: Understanding Alzheimer’s
Disease & Dementia
- The different terms for memory loss and what they all mean
- Causes of memory loss
- How you can be sure of a diagnosis
- What can be done to help someone with memory loss
- What someone with dementia might experience
- How to understand and explain the progress of a disease like Alzheimer’s
Disease.
Part 2: Daily Care Skills
- Why daily care tasks are so challenging for people with dementia
- How to take the fear and difficulty out of these once-simple daily
skills
- How to help the person with dementia stay as independent as possible
for as long as possible
- How to get a person to bathe or do another seemingly impossible
task, and keep your cool
- How to problem-solve challenges in daily care on your own in the
future.
Part 3: Communication
- How important non-verbal communication is to the person with dementia
- Basic principals of communication which can make everyone’s
life easier
- Special ways to communicate caring and affection to people who don’t
seen to understand anything anymore
- How body language communicates, whether you know it or not
- Self-awareness to improve all aspects of communication
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