EVENTS & opportunities

• DRW1: Thinking Positively About Dementia - An Introduction

  90 min Workshop

  Online on zoom

  90 min Workshop

  Online on zoom

  +7 more

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• Communicating Well: Enhancing Lives and Relationships

  This Workshop Series is on

  ZOOM

  This Workshop Series is on

  ZOOM

  +27 more

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• DRW31: Why Dementia Care is Different

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  Zoom

  See 'Register' Page for Dates and Times

  Zoom

  Dementia care is unlike other care - The day to day realities are underestimated and carers do not receive appropriate information or support to enable them to care well. Understand dementia’s unique demands enables carers to adapt and cope with endless frustrations.

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• DRW10 Let's Talk! Chat Time for Carers

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  Zoom

  See 'Register' Page for Dates and Times

  Zoom

  EVERY WEEK - a chat time for anyone who has completed a workshop and wants to stay in touch A weekly one hour session with no agenda – think of it as ‘drop in’ time and bring concerns, questions and stories to share these with others. LET’S TALK is a supportive space: ask each other for assistance.

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• Online Carer Workshop Packages

  Dates vary

  Participate through Zoom

  Dates vary

  Participate through Zoom

  Why not purchase a workshop package. Choose the number of workshops you'd like to attend and then the choice is yours as to which ones you take part in!

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• DRW21: States of Dementia - Seeing Through a Gems© Lens

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  Zoom

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  Zoom

  Appreciate the state a person is and respond appropriately. Know when things change. States are not stages (early, moderate, severe). People move in and out of different states, even in one day. Observe so you can respond well. Based on PAC GEMS(c) model.

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• DRW41: Some Common Issues a Carer Will Encounter

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  Zoom

  See 'Register' Page for Dates and Times

  Zoom

  This Workshop gives you skills and practice in identifying potential problems, ideas for approaching these, and strategies to help divert or de-escalate. Will be participant-led: raise and share issues you are facing. We will work through possible solutions.

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• DRW51: Dealing with 'Difficult Behaviours'

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  Zoom

  See 'Register' Page for Dates and Times

  Zoom

  ‘Challenging behaviours’ may be rational responses to people not knowing how to connect well or deal with aggravations - noise, confusion, fear, hunger, discomfort, thoughts they can’t communicate. Learn to observe and respond to defuse and calm agitation, confusion, aggression.

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