Person-Centred Dementia Care Workshop

Communicating, interacting and supporting a person living with dementia can be challenging particularly when the person is ill and is interacting outside of a familiar environment.

In this session we will spend time discovering the experience of living with dementia and ideas about personhood and identity. We will also explore person-centred approaches to care and practice some techniques for positive interaction. We will also consider the impact of dementia on informal caregivers and their role when the person living with dementia is ill.

In this session we will:

• Review dementia types and characteristics as a life-limiting condition
• Explore what it means to be a person, implications for independence and stigma
• Consider the impact of illness on the person living with dementia
• Reflect on informal caregivers’ role and need for support
• Learn the principles of person -and relationship-centred care

The workshop will be presented by Davina Porock, founding Director of the Centre for Research in Aged Care at ECU’s School of Nursing and Midwifery. Her research program focuses on living and dying well in residential aged care, with a particular interest in person-centred practice and recognised dying.

The cost of this workshop is $22. Afternoon tea will be provided.

Registrations are essential by following this link.