SAT/23NOV13 ADFM Public Seminar "DEMENTIA CARE" By Ms Lynda McNab, Sponsored By CIMB Foundation

                        

  

ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE FOUNDATION MALAYSIA (ADFM)

Public Seminar For Caregivers, Healthcare Professionals/Workers  

“Dementia Care”

Speaker: Ms Lynda McNab, Clinical Nurse Specialist, UK

Date:  Saturday, 23 November 2013

Time: 9.00a.m. to 1.00 p.m.
Venue:  Hall 3, Graduate Centre, Ground Floor, Sunway University

No. 5 Jalan Universiti, Bandar Sunway, 46150 Petaling Jaya

PROGRAM

08.00am   Registration of Attendance  & Light Refreshment

09.00am Welcome Address by Datuk Dr Yim Khai Kee, Chairman, ADFM Exco

09.05am “Overview of Dementia” by  Dr Lu Ann Chong, Consultant Psychogeriatrician

• What is dementia?
• Why is it important to get a diagnosis?
• The use on antipsychotic medication
• Memory clinics – what are they and how to gain access
• Services in the UK vs services in Malaysia

09.40am    Living Well with Dementia” by Ms Lynda McNab, Clinical Nurse Specialist, UK

• Giving hope
• Empowerment
• Caregiver support groups
• Working with people in the later stages of dementia – small video

10.30am Break for Refreshment

10.45am “Behaviour That Challenges” by Ms Lynda McNab, Clinical Nurse Specialist, UK

• Definition – what is behaviour that challenges
• Attitudes – who does it challenge?
• Why do PWD wander, what can we do?
• Why do PWD become aggressive, shout or swear? What can we do?
• Why do PWD have sleep difficulties? What can we do?
• Why do PWD refuse to eat? What can we do?
• Why do PWD not allow personal care to take place? What can we do?
• The focus of this will be looking at non pharmacological measure to work with these behaviours

12.00pm   Questions and Answers

01.00pm   End  

Who Should Attend?

Caregivers, Healthcare Professionals & Workers from Healthcare Sector.

REGISTRATION FEE 

RM10 per person (defray expenditure for refreshments & Certificate of Attendance).

COMPULSORY REGISTRATION (On First-Come, First-Served Basis)

1.   Register online now -> RegistrationForm

2.   Email: jenny@adfm.org.my  OR  Fax:  03 7960 8482

Further details, call Jenny at  016 608 2513 / 03 7931 5850 (DL) / 7956 2008

A Community Project  sponsored by CIMB Foundation, organized by Alzheimer’s Disease Foundation Malaysia (ADFM), and supported by Sunway University

Are you a Caregiver?  Join the ADFM National Caregivers Network (An Online Platform  provides resource and support for the caregivers community in Malaysia, to seek information, learn how to understand, cope and communicate with a person living with Alzheimer’s and other form of Dementia.  The Network Support Group holds monthly talk & Caregivers Sharing Section.)

SIGN UP at : http://admalaysia.ning.com/main/authorization/signUp