Training in Supportive Care
Simile provides people with opportunities to come together and discover how they are similar despite their differences.
Our online training program is written primarily for people recently diagnosed with dementia. It helps them better understand their diagnosis and manage their symptoms effectively. It also provides those who offer them their support, a deeper understanding of the experience of cognitive impairment.
Instead of dementia, the term cognitive impairment is used as it is preferred by Mike Zuendel – a man diagnosed with dementia. You can read more about his initiative to change the way he is defined by others by clicking on the button below.
Online courses, provide valuable, practical information that both in a supportive relationship can use to reduce their stress and frustration, build trust, and continue to enjoy a meaningful life.
Courses follow the Relationship Enhancement Approach to Supportive Care – a proven approach to care for people who have been recently diagnosed with dementia.
Coping effectively with stress and frustration, building trust and communicating effectively while supporting someone in their efforts to continue to enjoy a meaningful life, are central to this approach.
Relationship Enhancement offers an opportunity to journey through care together that is unique and personal where both in the relationship discover how they are similar despite their differences.
Our first single issue course, Responding to Short-term Memory Loss, is coming soon!
To improve the quality of homecare for people who have cognitive impairment and those who support them through the knowledge and skills offered in the Relationship Enhancement Training Program.
To build a culture of care in Canada where community members have the knowledge and skills they need to support people who have a cognitive impairment and create safe places for them.
Beverly Harper, B.A., P.S.W. has conducted extensive research and gained valuable insights from her front-line work as a Personal Support Worker with a variety of different people who have a cognitive impairment in both home and institutional settings. Relationship Enhancement reflects her unique approach to care that incorporates evidenced-based, academic research and experiences from everyday life.
Be the first to find out when a new course becomes available.
Our first single issue course, Responding to Short-term Memory Loss, will be available soon!
- from Ulysses by Lord Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892)
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