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Dementia Care Education Series

Dementia Care Education Series: CD-ROM

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With funding provided by Pfizer Canada, MAREP has developed an interactive education program on CD-ROM using Flash technology. This education program focused on dementia care is designed to make learning more accessible and convenient for all those working in dementia care. Using the CD-ROM, learners, on their own, or in groups, work through 10 learning modules, each focused on a different topic related to dementia care. The education program utilizes video clips, stories, poetry, songs, exercises, and hand-outs to illustrate the material presented in the modules.

This tool is a wonderful learning resource for individual staff working in community programs or long-term care settings. In addition this tool can be used by persons working in public service settings (e.g., transit workers, police, etc.) interested in learning more about dementia. Family and friends of persons living with dementia will also benefit from the information, interactive activities, and reflective exercises in this CD-ROM.

Here's what people are saying: "I was very impressed with this exceptional program. It is well constructed, informative, offers a variety of formats and links to other relevant websites. I very much like the program and could see a multitude of uses - libraries, families, healthcare workers, nursing and other professional schools. It could even be developed into a long distance educational course. Congratulations to all who worked on putting this together. You have come up with a fine product."
With Thanks. Jill Herne, Director of Patient Care & Chief Nursing Officer, Homewood Health Centre

The CD-ROM can be purchased as an individual self-learning tool or as a facilitator package which comes with a facilitator's guide that can be used by leaders in a variety of settings to teach major concepts related to dementia and dementia care.

The 10 modules included in the CD-ROM are listed below:

  1. Overview of Dementia
  2. Living with an Illness Causing Dementia/ Experience of Dementia
  3. Care Models and Providing Quality Care
  4. Communication and Interpersonal Skills
  5. Responsive Behaviours in Dementia
  6. Assessment in Gero-Psychiatry
  7. Interventions for Persons with Dementia/Improving Quality of Life
  8. Ethics of Dementia Care
  9. Understanding the Family in the Dementia Context
  10. Reducing Care Provider Stress and Burnout

Dementia Care Education Series Summary Sheet

For more information on the Dementia Care Education Series - CD-ROM please contact Jessica Luh at jluh@uwaterloo.ca or (519) 888-4567 ext 36880. Please use either the printable order form (cheque payment only) or the online order form (credit card payment only) to place your order now.