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January is Alzheimer Awareness Month!
Calling All Volunteers! Volunteers needed ASAP! Click here to learn about this exciting and fun opportunity!
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About Alzheimer's Disease and Related DementiasAlzheimer's disease is a progressive degenerative disease. The changes you see in a person with Alzheimer's disease or a related dementia's ability to remember and perform day to day functions are a result of changes that occur in various areas of the brain. General InformationOther Information Understanding the Dementia Experience - pdf How to Interact with a Person with Dementia This brochure is a summary of the caregiving interactions which are helpful to people with dementia (please email education@alzheimercambridge.on.ca to receive the publisher file). This brochure is also available in other languages:
Search Is An Emergency A search and rescue program for long-term care homes developed (2002) in conjunction with the Alzheimer Society of Kitchener-Waterloo, facility personnel and police. The links below are to (1) background information, (2) an educational presentation (you can save this to your computer as a powerpoint file), (3) the manual as adapted by Alzheimer Canada, and (4) master forms for development of an in-house search and rescue, or "Code Yellow" binder, as described in the manual. Powerpoint Presentation on the Development of a Search and Rescue Program in a Long-Term Care Home Search is an Emergency Preplan Manual Master Forms for Development of Preplan Manual Services Needed for the Dementia Journey - A plan in logic model format submitted to the System Plan Committee of the Waterloo Wellington Local Health Integrated Network, Ontario, Canada.
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