Join us for a 90min workshop - How to End the Emotional Isolation of People Living with Dementia
Michael will introduce the vision and practice to end the emotional isolation that people living with dementia all too often experience. This workshop is for anyone who cares about someone living with dementia, whether family, friends or professional carers.
People with dementia have two fundamental kinds of needs: biological and existential. We meet a person’s biological needs when we care for them. To meet a person’s existential needs, however, requires more than caring for them: we must also care about them. The difference between the two kinds of care is vast, and meeting the first and not the second is the single most common failure in the care of people with dementia.
We know that the causes, expressions, and effects of dementia are many and various. But when it comes to the lived experience of people with dementia there are finally just two kinds: dementia with loneliness and dementia without loneliness.
While there is no cure for irreversible forms of dementia, the loneliness of people with dementia can be diminished, and very often eliminated.
This workshop will teach you how to do that.
