Congratulations! goes out to Sherry Dupuis for receiving the Partnership in Dementia award at the Murray Alzheimer Research and Education Program - Event Through our Eyes: Living with Dementia
We are proud to share the PiDC Alliance Fall 2013 Newsletter[PDF]! In it we share our moments of pride in our Culture Change work from the last several months at each of our four Culture Change Coalitions!
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Drs. Darla Fortune and Sacha Geer have just completed a webinar with the Alzheimer Knowledge Exchange!
The webinar is calledDiscovering ‘the best of what is’ in dementia care:The second phase of the Partnerships in Dementia Care (PiDC) Alliance’s Culture Change Process
Inspired by the Music and Memory project, researchers at the PiDC Alliance were pleased to donate more than 20 iPods and other Mp3 players to staff at the Bloomington Cove Long Term Care facility on behalf of the Partnering Together for Change Culture Change Coalition.
The second phase of the Partnerships in Dementia Care (PiDC) Alliance’s Culture Change Process
October 23rd, 2013 | 12:00 - 1:00 PM EST
Today marks the start of an exciting part of the Discovery phase of the Culture Change process at Yee Hong - Markham.
Multi-lingual volunteers from Yee Hong will begin interviewing staff members at Yee Hong to Discover 'the best of what is' at this Long Term Care home in Markham, Ontario. Most of the staff at Yee Hong are native Chinese speakers, so volunteers fluent in English, Mandarin, Cantonese and even a Hakka speaker are on hand to confidentially learn from staff members.
Are you a recreation or leisure professional looking to incorporate the principles of Culture Change into your practice?
The Partnerships in Dementia Care Alliance is proud to share information from a day-long intensive workshop created by Co-Principle Investigator Dr. Sherry Dupuis, alongside Jennifer Carson and Dr. Colleen Whyte.
This resource explains the principles of culture change, their link to leisure practice and provides all the information necessary to lead or work through your own workshop with other recreation and leisure professionals.
Co-Prinicipal Investigator of the PiDC Alliance, Dr. Sherry Dupuis is shortly to England for two exciting talks.
First, Dr. Dupuis will be a keynote speaker at the opening of a new Research Institute on Dementia at Southampton on Tuesday September 10th from 3:00pm-4:30pm. Detail about the DARE Network and the event here.
The Partnering Together for Change team at Bloomington Cove is working hard to spread the word about Culture Change.
At the July meeting of the Yee Hong Culture Change coalition, the group put the final touches on an interview and survey guide for staff at the Yee Hong Centre for Geriatric care in Markham.
The group has been working for months on identifying who they would like to target, and how, in order to gather positive stories about what works best at Yee Hong and to build on these strengths to improve dementia care for everyone involved.