Person Centered Care – the essence of good dementia care
Dementia Care: “Knowing our life and emotional history is for others the key to unlocking who we are, why we feel the way we do and what influences our actions.” (Christene Gordon, Director of Services, Alzheimers Society of Alberta and NWTs.) So simple, but the root of what person centered care is about. Considering that […]
Dr. Thomas Hadjistavropoulos and the PACSLAC!
Louis Armstrongs singing “What a wonderful world” is truly one of my “favorite things”.Attending a conference and hearing about good tools, validated by good research, and presented in a manner that makes me want to go home and integrate the work in my practice is another one of my “favorite things”. At the Alzheimer Society […]
Harmony: Dementia Care and Hospice Palliative Care
In June of 2006 Fiona Sudbury the Director of Care at Broadmead Lodge in Victoria asked me to help them prepare a course on “Dying with Dementia”. I remember well saying to Fiona that the gerontology community, the hospice palliative care community, and I personally were not ready to write that course. After a few […]
LDMonline – participants from communities across the globe!
I just reviewed the lists of registrants from the online courses that were offered by LDMonline in the past few months. At this moment in time, most course participants live in relatively isolated and small communities across Canada! The other participants live in NEPAL, Australia, USA and Denmark. The nurses from Nepal work with hospice […]
