Create a Supportive Care Network for a Family Member with Dementia

Program title: Dementia-Specific Model: Creating Communities of Care
Length: 4 hours (2 sessions, 2-hours each, delivered on consecutive weeks)
Perfect for: Primary caregivers, care receivers, social workers, pastoral workers, volunteer groups, faith-based organizations, healthcare providers, and others in the healthcare industry challenged by the issues related to dementia

Program description: Our Creating Communities of Care model explains how to create a cost-effective, efficient, compassionate model of communal caregiving. Based on the Share The Care™ model, this program is specifically tailored to help family members and healthcare professionals create a supportive network for a person with dementia. In this model, care receivers and caregivers invite family members, friends, colleagues, and volunteers to share in the responsibilities of care.

This program offers the following information and benefits to participants:

• Addresses the resistance related to asking for and receiving help
• Suggests sources for team members (family, friends, colleagues, faith communities, schools, volunteers, friends of friends)
• Describes the roles/tasks critical to the success of caring teams
• Details the format of the Initial Team Meeting that transforms a group of people into a caring community
• Identifies meaningful ways a team can help
• Discusses the foundational principles of successful teams: shared leadership, trust, communication, balance, appropriate boundaries, mutual respect, and commitment to a common goal
• Recognizes the complexity of our healthcare systems and the need for assistance with acute, chronic, and/or terminal illnesses
• Encourages teams to identify and leverage their collective skills and abilities
• Recognizes that all participants are enriched through the process
• Provides web-based resources for communication and scheduling (Lotsa Helping Hands)
• Reminds us that as compassionate beings, we are called to care for one another

Training Dates at The Alzheimer's Association:

February 2011
May 2011
August 2011
November 2011

Contact us to schedule a program for your group:

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(We will customize any program to meet your group’s needs.