Dementia: Understanding the Journey

Oct. 26, 2022

Delivered online

Course

Tried, tested, and continuously improved over 25-years, this 18-week certificate program is the benchmark course for professionals, covering all aspects of care and promoting personal leadership among home and long term care providers.

No two people experience dementia in the same way, and there is no one-size-fits-all approach to supporting persons living with dementia. Dementia: Understanding the Journey was created to develop and enhance the competencies of current and future health care providers.

Dementia: Understanding the Journey offers its learners:

  • a holistic, person-centered philosophy for understanding dementia
  • strategies to maintain a balance between offering support and encouraging independence
  • strategies to maintain a person’s identity, dignity, and self-esteem
  • strategies to provide quality care using an interdisciplinary team approach
  • tools to assist in understanding and responding to behaviours

There is no better course out there for any organization serious about investing in training their staff to deliver genuine person-centred dementia care.

We provide Dementia Understanding the Journey online three times each year over 18 weeks to ensure its practical to follow alongside work. All nine modules with 27 workshop style contact hours must be attended, practical on the job assignments and a final project completed in order to earn a certificate.

People
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Ashley King

Co-founder @Person Centred Universe

Ashley first became interested in the field of aging when she was providing care to her grandmother at home.

She has fifteen years of experience in community and long-term care. Alongside Person Centred Universe, Ashley is the Executive Director of Loch Lomond Villa in New Brunswick.

Ashley has developed numerous training programs including the use of individualized music therapy, therapeutic activity, and Snoezelen Rooms, among others.

Ashley holds a BA in Gerontology, is a certified educator for the Dementia Understanding the Journey Course, holds a certificate from the NCCDP as a Certified Dementia Practitioner and is certified for Dementia Care Mapping from the trailblazing Bradford University in the UK. She is currently pursuing a Global Executive MBA with a focus in Health & the Life Sciences from the Rotman School of Management

She has previously been a board member of the provincial chapter and national federation of the Alzheimer’s Society of Canada.

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Daphne Noonan

Co-founder @Person Centred Universe

Daphne has twenty years of experience working in a variety of roles in long-term care in Ontario and Atlantic Canada.

Before recently deciding to focus on providing full -time leadership at Person Centred Universe, Daphne held numerous leadership roles in the Aging Care space, both informal and formal. A highlight of her career has been serving as the long-time Executive Director of Nashwaak Villa Nursing Home in New Brunswick, which she took through a transformation to become an award-winning Planetree Gold Certified organization following the principles of person-centred care.

At Person Centred Universe she provides transformational leadership coaching and other consulting services, develops new programs, and is a sought-after speaker in industry events.

Daphne holds a BA in Gerontology, M.Ed in Adult Education, a diploma in Health Sciences specializing in Therapeutic Recreation, and is certified for Dementia Care Mapping from the trailblazing Bradford University in the UK.

She has previously been a board member of the provincial chapter and national federation of the Alzheimer’s Society of Canada.