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Aging Through Illness: Becoming Your Patient

  • Examine environment & its effect on client's physical/psychological well-being
  • Identify physical and psychological stressors in the client's environment
  • Discuss the human response to an illness and apply appropriate interventions
  • Recommended for staff in the acute care sector

Option: available as Full Day session or as 45 min workshop of highlights repeated 3 times throughout day

 

Aging With A Life Long Disability: Where Do I Fit?

  • The philosophy of self-directed care
  • Assessing degrees of success based on client demonstrated vs. organizational goals
  • Define the clients strengths and compensate limitations
  • Recommended for all staff of supportive housing environments serving special needs clients

 

Breaking Through: Supporting the Frail Elderly - The Challenges of Long Term Care

  • What is it like to be a resident?
  • Facing apathetic or aggressive responses
  • Recommended for all staff in long term care settings

Option: available as Full Day session or as 45 min workshop of highlights repeated 3 times throughout day

 

Dementia Care Modules

Each of these 2 hour sessions can be presented separately or combined with the others for a full day of training. Topics are: 

  1. The Aging Process and the Brain
  2. Dealing with Behaviours
  3. Quality of Life for the Resident
  4. Purpose-Filled Days

 

Doing Our Best For Your Mother: Working With Families Of Aging Parents

  • Family Response Theory - existing dynamics with attitudes & personalities
  • Stress Mountain - stress sources, defining the “Plan” & de-personalizing issues
  • Family Centered approach - problem solving strategies, satisfaction guaranteed

 

Enhancing Clinical Assessment Skills For Cognitively Well And Dementia Clients

  • Utilize interviewing skills to elicit a comprehensive, concise health history
  • Outline general guidelines for conducting a client assessment
  • Utilize a holistic approach when performing a client assessment
  • Develop a systematic approach to assessing the neurological, respiratory, cardiac and gastrointestinal systems
  • Morning session tailored to unregulated care providers (PSWs, HCAs) and afternoon session tailored to RNs & RPNs

 

Family Care Planning

  • The Family Centered Approach
  • Recognizing existing dynamics to  understand the response
  • Brainstorming towards practical & proactive solutions to the issues

 

Family Dynamics And Conflict Resolution: Dealing With Irate Families

  • Defining family relationships
  • Engaging in positive interactions to foster trust
  • Development of on-site support groups

Option: available as Full Day session or as 45 min workshop of highlights repeated 3 times throughout day.

 

Home For The Rest Of My Life: Supporting The Frail Elderly In the Community

  • Past, present & future challenges to LTC
  • Knowing the client & understanding the challenges
  • Adding the needed dimension to the residents life – emotional, personal, etc.
  • Recommended for community health care managers and front line workers/volunteers

 

How Will You Care For Me When I'm Old & Gray?

  • Quality of Life: what is it & how achieved?
  • Aging and its Effects:  physical, cognitive ability & implications of Alzheimer's
  • Behaviour Management:dynamics & understanding challenging behaviours
  • Care Strategies:foundation - consistency, creativity and flexibility

Option: available as Full Day session or as 45 min workshop of highlights repeated 3 times throughout day.

 

Learning to Dance: Working Effectively With The Clients’ Family.

  • Understand your frustration  & understand family and their response
  • Learning to Dance: Work with families effectively, break habits, learn to listen
  • Know your limits and the realities of the situation
  • Recommended for all staff designations in the broader health care sector

 

Living Life: Sensory Stimulation Programming - Enhancing Life Through The Senses

  • Recognizing retained pleasures of taste, texture, sight & smell amidst losses
  • Food experience as supportive therapy model encouraging muscle memory, life skills, functional/sequential ability & rehabilitative memories
  • Maximize functionality, divert behaviours & minimize risk from behaviours
  • Themed programs & measurement tools illustrating successful interventions
  • Recommended for OT/PT/Rehab/Dietary/Housekeeping/Maintenance/Life Enrichment and managers of these departments

Option: available as Full Day session or as 45 min workshop of highlights repeated 3 times throughout day.

 

Managing Challenging Behaviours Of The Dementia Client: Practical Interventions And Strategies

  • Client Uniqueness -vulnerability, biological changes, experience, symptoms & behaviours
  • Assessment Techniques –focus, care analysis, diversional tactics, ADLs & client
  • Programming Strategies – focus, outcome, measuring response, family involvement
  • Recommended for all staff designations in broader health care sector

 

Meaningful Mealtimes: The Healing Therapy of Mealtimes

  • Normal changes of aging on the brain & sensory organs
  • Impact of food on comfort and memories
  • Impact of under/over assisting residents
  • Personal perspectives on food & mealtimes

Option: available as Full Day session or as 45 min workshop of highlights repeated 3 times throughout day.

 

Mother, I'm Doing the Best I Can

  • Understand your aging parent
  • Discover the positives in difficult situations
  • Help your family cope with the pressures
  • You too, can be guilt free

Option: available as 2 hour session or as 45 min workshop of highlights repeated 3 times throughout day.

 

*NEW* - Therapeutic Relationships

  • Define “therapeutic relationship”
  • Identify when relationship oversteps boundaries of confidentiality, appropriate roles and topics
  • Measure the nature of a "therapeutic" vs "non-therapeutic" relationship
  • Learn to enjoy healthy and compassionate relationships while saying “no” to sharing of information

 

Palliative Care in a LTC Home

  • What happens after diagnosis? Does treatment become lost in LTC? The role of the caregiver as an advocate.
  • The roles of the significant other after diagnosis
  • Recognizing palliative support in end life stages for chronic illness such as end stage dementia, MS, ALS, Spinal cord injury and others.

 

Palliative/End of Life Care

Addressing death as part of life and end of life care:

  • The human story from biological and psychological perspectives
  • Dealing with death - participant or observer
  • Communication
  • Dying process & understanding grief
  • Model for an Integrated Palliative Care Program to enhance quality of living and dying

 

Preventing Aggression: Supportive Therapy In Action For The Dementia Client

  • Understanding Dementia –causes of aggression, cycles, reading cues
  • Adapting the Care Process – assessing, patterns, controlling, defusing, medication
  • Defusing Techniques – cue words, redirection, energy conservation & exhaustion
  • Recommended for all staff designations in the broader health care sector

 

Restorative Care

  • Increases understanding of the Restorative process & attitude
  • Demonstrates how each caregiver can implement that understanding
  • Open to multi-disciplinary caregivers

Option: available as Full Day session or as 45 min workshop of highlights repeated 3 times throughout day.

 

Valuable Visits

  • Define a successful visit for family & achievable goals
  • Understand & manage personal stress & its impact on resident
  • Explore the premise of "Hope" & how it changes with age
  • Set goals consistent with strategic plan

Option: available as Keynote or 2 hour presentation

 

Wake Up to Workplace Violence

  • Recognition of workplace conflict as a measured QI indicator of a healthy workplace – tracking conflict scenarios & resolutions; translating into best practices.
  • Awareness of how home violence presents in workplace - for victim or  perpetrator.
  • Impact of unified & consistent conflict approach by all staff
  • Consistent follow through -policies, workplace checklists, safety kits, assistive programs, community resources, etc.

 

When More is NOT Enough

  • The interrelationship between physical/aging limitations & meaningful communication
  • Understanding how "Best Service" may frustrate aging individual
  • Re-establishing positive control despite limitations of aging client
  • Knowing when to agree to disagree

 

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