brochure

Download Our Brochure!

This is a great resource to reference, print and share with others who are in need of dementia care education, coaching,  support and guidance.

Presentation Menu

Workshops & Presentations

This list of workshops and presentations are flexible and can be mixed and adjusted to meet your needs for staff training or community engagements.

Dive in Deeper

2-Hour Intensive Practice Session

Gear Day is a two hour intensive practice session where we focus on continuing to build on skills specific to a variety areas of dementia care tailored to your unique situation and challenges.

Gather your gear

Navigate the Waters in Dementia Care

When someone gets diagnosed with dementia, IT TAKES A VILLAGE.
This tool is designed to help you plan for current and future needs.
While you are exploring the reality of the person with dementia and getting used to the water, you will need to gather your gear for the journey. By gathering our gear, we are able to dive in prepared and gives us time to come to the surface, get a breath a fresh air – time to be us, not a care partner – and dive back in again.

Professional Workshops

Dementia Care Courses

Dementia Care Champion Courses

These interactive courses will help learners focus on Positive Physical Approach to improve connections, relationships, and task completion.

Creating Engagement Opportunities 

Offering engaging experiences for people living with dementia can be challenging as they each retain different skills. This workshop guides the learners through recognizing what people with dementia CAN STILL do and adjusting experiences to meet these abilities.

Fish Approach

One of our most popular requests! This interactive workshop that focuses on communication strategies that build trust, understanding, and improves relationships between care partners and people living with brain changes.

fish APPROACH

Better Understanding of the Dementia Perspective and Tips to Avoid

People with dementia are like fish in the water.  This tip sheet helps care partners better understand the dementia experience and provides helpful communication snags to avoid.

unmet needs Meter

Communication Tool to Help Decode Emotions and Behaviors that can Correspond with an Unmet Need

Our goal isn’t to stop the person living with brain changes from communicating their need, but to interpret the need they are communicating. Emotions and behaviors that are displayed are clues to what the person’s unmet need is, and allows us to try to respond to that need.

Dementia Resource Guide

Local and International Resources

This Resource Guide is developed by a local Dementia Friendly Community Coalition and offers resources and options for people regardless of your location.  Information about Advanced Directives to Medications to Safety and where to find more answers to your questions are available in this guide.