Island Treasures
This podcast provides a platform for caregivers to share their stories, offering encouragement and insights to those who may be on a similar journey. Guests bring wisdom and empowerment to remind caregivers they're not alone. Additionally, guests share valuable information, tips and resources to support caregivers in their vital role.
Island Treasures
Skills Retained: Strengths-based Approach to Dementia Care
In this episode you will hear about the strengths-based, person-centered approach to dementia care from my guest Judy Cornish.
Judy Cornish is an author, founder of the Dementia & Alzheimer’s Wellbeing Network (DAWN®), creator of the DAWN Method® of dementia care, and a retired elder law attorney. Her two books (The Dementia Handbook and Dementia With Dignity) take person-centered dementia care from theory to practice by identifying the skills not lost to dementia. Through DAWN, Judy Cornish provides online training programs for families and professional caregivers, as well as certification courses for agencies and facilities. Her goal is to see dignified dementia care and aging in place become available for all.
This strengths-based approach offers the listener the opportunity to choose to look at dementia from a functional and experiential perspective instead of focusing on what the person with dementia can no longer do because of the skills they have lost. Judy offers meanings and suggestions to help us understand how to lessen our guilt, stress, conflict, pain and exhaustion as caregivers by recognizing the skills that are still present in our loved ones or care recipients who have dementia.
For more information on the Dementia & Alzheimer’s Wellbeing Network® (DAWN) and the DAWN Method® contact judy@thedawnmethod.com
And her social media links:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/judycornish/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/theDAWNmethod
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theDAWNmethod