Dementia Care Workshops
Our most popular sessions are 3-hours. However, any of these sessions may be blended to provide a 6-hour, or longer, workshop to address specific needs or provide additional skill practice.
PSW Specialist Certificate in Dementia Care
This customized program provides PSWs with an in-depth understanding of dementia, its impact on clients, and skills to better relate with and support their clients. We’ll work with you to select topics that meet your organization’s specific needs and create a comprehensive program that builds confidence and practical skills.
Capacity Builders’ specialist certificate programs are 12 - 18 hours in length and include extensive hands-on learning (the program does not have to be delivered on consecutive days – we’ll work together to determine an appropriate training schedule for your staff). We welcome the opportunity to work with single organizations, multiple providers, collaboratives or networks. A certificate identifying participants as PSW Specialists in Dementia is awarded to those who successfully complete the program. For more information, please contact us at info@capacitybuilders.ca.
This customized program provides PSWs with an in-depth understanding of dementia, its impact on clients, and skills to better relate with and support their clients. We’ll work with you to select topics that meet your organization’s specific needs and create a comprehensive program that builds confidence and practical skills.
Capacity Builders’ specialist certificate programs are 12 - 18 hours in length and include extensive hands-on learning (the program does not have to be delivered on consecutive days – we’ll work together to determine an appropriate training schedule for your staff). We welcome the opportunity to work with single organizations, multiple providers, collaboratives or networks. A certificate identifying participants as PSW Specialists in Dementia is awarded to those who successfully complete the program. For more information, please contact us at info@capacitybuilders.ca.
Introduction to Cognition and Dementia
3-hour workshop
This session provides an introduction to normal cognition, age-related changes, and changes that may come from a disease process. We’ll examine dementia as a syndrome that may be caused by a wide variety of conditions, discuss the symptoms and general approaches to client support.
This session will help your staff:
3-hour workshop
This session provides an introduction to normal cognition, age-related changes, and changes that may come from a disease process. We’ll examine dementia as a syndrome that may be caused by a wide variety of conditions, discuss the symptoms and general approaches to client support.
This session will help your staff:
- understand the impact of common factors on cognitive ability
- discuss common symptoms (memory loss, lack of insight, inability to process information, etc.)
- discuss delirium as distinct from dementia
- identify and apply approaches to minimize impairment and enhance client function where possible
Responding to Challenging Behaviours: Meeting Your Organization's Specific Needs
3-hour workshop
This workshop will help PSWs understand that there is meaning behind challenging behaviours and develop useful skills to prevent or de-escalate these behaviours. Every workshop will include an introduction to understanding client behaviours and then we'll focus on 2-3 specific behaviours that pose challenges for your staff, as determined by you and our trainer in a pre-session consultation call. Your staff will learn about triggers and warning signs for the specific behaviours they find challenging, and gain numerous strategies to effectively respond to those behaviours.
Common behaviours include:
See below for separate sessions that focus on responding to socially inappropriate behaviours and physical/verbal challenging behaviours.
3-hour workshop
This workshop will help PSWs understand that there is meaning behind challenging behaviours and develop useful skills to prevent or de-escalate these behaviours. Every workshop will include an introduction to understanding client behaviours and then we'll focus on 2-3 specific behaviours that pose challenges for your staff, as determined by you and our trainer in a pre-session consultation call. Your staff will learn about triggers and warning signs for the specific behaviours they find challenging, and gain numerous strategies to effectively respond to those behaviours.
Common behaviours include:
- resistance to care
- exist seeking
- repetitiveness (physical and verbal)
- wandering
- sundowning
- appearing to live in the past or looking for people who are no longer alive
- rummaging through possessions
- collecting/hiding items/guarding
See below for separate sessions that focus on responding to socially inappropriate behaviours and physical/verbal challenging behaviours.
Responding to Socially Inappropriate Behaviours in Dementia
3-hour workshop
Dementia reduces the filters that adults develop to shape what is considered appropriate in social situations. Socially inappropriate behaviours may range from largely insignificant to those that negatively affect people around the person (sexual overtures, voiding in public, etc.). This session will focus on sexual disinhibition as well as other socially inappropriate behaviours and explore potential triggers and productive responses for support workers.
This in-service workshop will help your staff:
3-hour workshop
Dementia reduces the filters that adults develop to shape what is considered appropriate in social situations. Socially inappropriate behaviours may range from largely insignificant to those that negatively affect people around the person (sexual overtures, voiding in public, etc.). This session will focus on sexual disinhibition as well as other socially inappropriate behaviours and explore potential triggers and productive responses for support workers.
This in-service workshop will help your staff:
- define what is meant by socially inappropriate behaviour and distinguish it from behaviour that may be personally uncomfortable
- identify possible triggers for socially inappropriate behaviour
- apply positive approaches in response to these behaviours
- share observations and approaches with other members of the support team.
Physical and Verbal Challenging Behaviours in Dementia
(formerly Aggression in Dementia)
3-hour workshop
This interactive session focuses on physical and verbal behaviours that are, or may be seen, as aggressive. We'll discuss aggression in clients with dementia, its causes and how to respond to it. We’ll examine exactly what aggression is, and isn't, and how to tell the difference. We'll explore situations that may spark aggression, including those related to environment, approach and perspective. Your staff will have the opportunity to apply problem-solving processes to real-world aggression situations and to gain skill in responding to aggression in their clients.
This session will help your staff:
(formerly Aggression in Dementia)
3-hour workshop
This interactive session focuses on physical and verbal behaviours that are, or may be seen, as aggressive. We'll discuss aggression in clients with dementia, its causes and how to respond to it. We’ll examine exactly what aggression is, and isn't, and how to tell the difference. We'll explore situations that may spark aggression, including those related to environment, approach and perspective. Your staff will have the opportunity to apply problem-solving processes to real-world aggression situations and to gain skill in responding to aggression in their clients.
This session will help your staff:
- understand the difference between assertiveness, abruptness, aggression and anger - and the risks associated with labelling behaviour
- appreciate the factors that may spark aggression; apply a problem-identification and response approach to resolving the issue
- contribute relevant information learned to the client’s support plan and communicate to the team
- identify risks to the support worker’s own boundaries and well-being, and strategies to address them
The Final Journey: When the Person with Dementia is Dying
3-hour workshop
The last stages of life are different when a person has dementia. Cognitive and physical changes in the last stages make it difficult for the person to share what they are experiencing—and make it difficult for PSWs to respond. This workshop will highlight common symptoms people experience, how they may present and how PSWs might best respond to the needs identified. We will also discuss the ethical and support challenges when providing support to the dying client with dementia.
This session will help your staff:
3-hour workshop
The last stages of life are different when a person has dementia. Cognitive and physical changes in the last stages make it difficult for the person to share what they are experiencing—and make it difficult for PSWs to respond. This workshop will highlight common symptoms people experience, how they may present and how PSWs might best respond to the needs identified. We will also discuss the ethical and support challenges when providing support to the dying client with dementia.
This session will help your staff:
- identify and discuss the ways in which late stage dementia impacts the dying process (swallowing impairment, loss of verbal communication, etc.)
- describe observation and assessment approaches to identify the changes a particular client may have
- discuss best practice approaches to supporting the client
- discuss the ethical issues raised in providing support to clients
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