Executives and Senior Leaders Workshop - Dementia Without Loneliness - 2 Part - 3-hour Workshop
Join Michael Verde, CEO of Memory Bridge and internationally recognized thought leader in dementia care, for an exclusive workshop: “Dementia Without Loneliness.”
This workshop will 1) teach you the theory and practice of ending the emotional isolation of people with dementia; and 2) how to incorporate the theory and practice into your organisation. Attendees will leave the workshop with a radically new understanding of what the everywhere-used but very-rarely meaningfully understood term “person-centered care” truly means, and how to create genuine person-centered care in your organization.
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 not only caring for a person but also caring about them.
The difference between the two kinds of care is vast—indeed, for the person cared for and about the difference is life-changing, and perhaps even life-saving. Meeting a person’s biological needs but not the need they have to feel like a person, is not caring enough.
Join us for a 3-hour workshop — Dementia Without Loneliness. This workshop will open your eyes to depths and forms of interpersonal communication that will transform your organisation’s caregiving capacity.
This 3-hour workshop is delivered in two parts:
Part 1 - 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.
LUNCH - After attending “Ending the Emotional Isolation of People Living with Dementia,” food and beverages will be served.
Part 2 - How to End the Emotional Isolation of People Living with Dementia Within Your Organization
After the break, Michael will offer insights into the practices and organisational commitments that lead to ending the emotional isolation of people living with dementia within your organisation.
We know that the causes, expressions, and effects of dementia are many and various. But when it comes to the lived experience of the condition there are only two kinds of dementia: 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 intention should be the gold-standard of care of people with dementia.
After this workshop you will understand:
• the science and social-psychology of emotional isolation
• the effect of emotional isolation on challenging behaviours
• the difference between genuine person-centered care and merely personalized-centered care
• the mindset and skills of presence that end emotional isolation
