Northern Health

This two-day program focuses on the DementiAbility Methods: The Montessori Way™. The DementiAbility Methods™ offer innovative, multidisciplinary evidence-based, non-pharmacological, person-centered approaches that have been successfully used in dementia care in any setting and by caregivers with different roles and education. The aim is to support each person in a prepared environment, offering a wide range of interventions that support body, mind, emotional, social and spiritual needs. The emphasis is on enriching and enhancing daily life by providing supports that will maintain/enhance function while also providing opportunities to be engaged in life and living according to the needs and abilities of each person. Research has provided clear evidence of enhanced function when memory cueing, sequencing and other such strategies, have been put in place and environments have been set up for success – thereby exposing abilities and combatting excess disability that is associated with disuse. The aim is to help each person live with dignity and be the best he/she can be. email: Arlene.Buckham@northernhealth.ca if you are interested or have questions