SAT / 2JUNE18, ADFM PJ Day-Care Centre: Monthly Talk & Caregivers Sharing Session and Yoga Exercise

ADFM MONTHLY TALK AND CAREGIVERS SHARING SESSION 

ON

SATURDAY, 2 JUNE 2018 - 12.30PM TO 4.00PM 

AT

ADFM PJ DAY DAY-CARE CENTRE 

NO 6, LORONG 11/8E, SEKSYEN 11, PETALING JAYA 

Programme:

Time:

12.30 to 1.30pm - “Rejuvenating Chair Yoga”

Monthly Yoga Exercise by Certified International Yoga Instructor, Ms Ashlynn Williams who has been practicing Yoga for more than 8 years. Chair Yoga is a great routine for loosening and strengthening the legs, the back, shoulders and neck, especially for seniors.  It is very gentle and perfect for those with limited mobility.  You will have fun with physical exercises and breathing techniques both the body and the mind.

1.30pm to 2.00pm - Refreshments

2.00pm to 4.30pm -  Monthly Talk and Caregivers Sharing Session on

“Technology Innovation in Dementia care”

Caring for persons with Alzheimer’s and Dementia are overwhelming for both those living with the disease and their caregivers.

Time has yet to find a cure for it, so, innovative technology in Dementia care tailored to the specific needs of Alzheimer’s persons can help ease the caregiving burden and improve the quality of life for everyone involved - whether it is for engaging a loved one with Alzheimer’s, managing behaviours non-pharmacologically, creating a safer environment, or monitoring from a distance.

Our Facilitator, Sara Thomas is a caregiver to her elderly mother-in-law living with Alzheimer’s. Her Mom who has Vascular Dementia passed away in 2016.  Sara will share her experiences to the extent in adapting technology innovations which can support persons living with Dementia and their caregivers at different stages of caregiving.

Sara Thomas is a lecturer in Business subjects at University Technology MARA, Metropolitan College and INTI College for 29 years. Subsequently she joined Monash University Malaysia, Sunway as a Sessional Teaching staff. She also works with Associate Professor Dr Teh Pei Lee in gerontechnology research at Monash University. For the past 24 years she has been a caregiver for family members with Dementia. 

REGISTRATION:

FREE Admission - Prior registration is required for our logistic purposes.  Please Email

to: jenny@adfm.org.my and copy: jennyho8@gmail.com or whatsapp 016 608 2513.

ADFM National Caregivers Support Network:   http://admalaysia.ning.com

Web:  www.adfm.org.my

Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/adfmpj/

ADFM National Caregivers Support Network is an online community platform for caregivers to seek support, information, advice, and share their caregiving challenges and experiences with other caregivers.

SAT/8 JULY17 2.00PM - ADFM Monthly Talk and Caregivers Sharing on "Legal Issues Concerning Dementia" by Felix Kong Hon Sen

To: All Caregivers and families,

Please be advised that ADFM National Caregivers Support Network will be conducting a FREE talk on “Legal Issues Concerning Dementia” by Felix Edmund Kong Hon Sen, a Lawyer and Psychologist, and ADFM Trainer for the DCS Programme. 

Details:

Date:   Saturday, 8 July 2017

Time:   2.00pm to 4.30pm 

Venue:  ADFM PJ Day-Care Centre, No. 6, Lorong 11/8E, Seksyen 11, 46200 Petaling Jaya

In his talk on the Legal Issues Concerning Dementia, Felix will cover:

·         Decision Making and the Impaired Individual.

·         Facts and Myths about decision making capacity.

·         When does a person lose mental capacity to make legal decisions.

·         Who can give informed consent for medical procedures.

·         Can a doctor override a patient's or family's decision.

·         What is an Advance Directive - How to make one.

·         What is a Power of Attorney - How to make one.

Registration is compulsory for our logistic arrangement.  Email your registration to: jenny@adfm.org.my or whatsapp 016 608 2513, providing:

(1)    Full Name/s

(2)    Mobile contact

(3)    Email address

(4)    Indicate caregiver to whom

Best regards.

JOIN the ADFM National Caregivers Support Network

Sign Up at:  http://admalaysia.ning.com

ADFM National Caregivers Support Network is an online community platform for caregivers to seek support, information, advice, and share their caregiving challenges and experiences with other caregivers. 

ADFM Monthly Talk and Caregivers Sharing Session - Saturday, 19 March 2016

All Caregivers and Families, 

Please be informed that the Monthly Talk and Caregivers Sharing Session in March to be chaired by Assoc Prof Dr Shahrul Bahyah Binti Kamaruzzaman, Consultant Geriatrician from UMMC and UMSC, will be held on: Day / Date :  Saturday, 19 March 2016 Time :  2.30pm to 4.30pm Venue :  ADFM PJ Daycare Centre, No. 6, Lorong 11/8E, 46200 Petaling Jaya. Before the open discussion and mutual sharing of experiences of dementia in the clinical and home-setting, Assoc. Prof. Dr Shahrul Bahyah in her talk will give advice to caregivers on what happens or to expect if the person with dementia needs hospital admission.

All caregivers and their family members, and allied healthcare providers for AD persons, please do not miss this valuable monthly sharing session.

To register, forward the completed Registration Form to jenny@adfm.org.my or by email giving full name/s, mobile contacts and email address. 

Should you require any further information, kindly contact Jenny at 016 608 2513 / 03 7931 5850.

Kindly be punctual as we will start at 2.00pm. 

Best wishes.  

SAT / 21MARCH15 2.30PM - TALK ON PROBLEMS WITH BALANCING, WALKING AND FALLING - AN EARLY SIGN OF DEMENTIA

To all Caregivers,

We have invited Associate Professor Dr Tan Maw Pin from the Geriatric Medicine, University of Malaya to give a talk at our monthly caregivers sharing session on 21 March 2015.

TOPIC:  Problems with Balancing, Walking and Falling – An Early Sign of Dementia

Day / Date:  Saturday, 21 March 2015

Venue:   ADFM PJ Day-Care Centre, No. 6 Lorong 11/8E, Seksyen 11, 46200 Petaling Jaya    

Program: 

2.00pm    Registration

2.30pm    Talk on “Problems with Balancing, Walking and Falling - An Early Sign of Dementia”

3.30pm     Q&As & Sharing Session

4.30pm     Refreshments

5.00pm     End

Both falls and dementia are very common problems among older people. We know that one in three older persons aged 65 years or older fall every year, and one in five older persons aged 80 years and over suffer from dementia. Recently Professor Joe Verghese in the US published a paper suggesting that certain older individuals who present with falls develop dementia not long afterwards. Don’t worry, it does not mean that once you have fallen once, you will get dementia. What Professor Verghese was referring to is a minority of older people who present with falls as the first sign of their dementia. All doctors who have had some experience in managing older people with falls will tell you that this group of patients definitely exist. Majority of patients we see after a fall will fall because of visual problems, muscle weakness, medications, poor balance, bad choice of footwear or low blood pressure, or any combination of the above factors. In the group of individuals with dementia who first present with a fall, they would have been experiencing brain changes linked to dementia long before the fall, but it’s only after they fall that the family and doctors start seeing the deterioration in memory and other brain function. This has not been fully explained, but it’s likely that the individual and their family were able to adequately compensate for any mild memory problems until the fall then tips the balance, and problems start cascading. In this talk we will be talking in more detail about what causes falls, and how we recognise early dementia, and how we reassure ourselves that the fall is not the first sign of dementia.

The Speaker, Dr Tan Maw Pin graduated from Nottingham University in UK in 1998 and obtained her Membership to the Royal College of Physicians 3 years later while working as a senior house officer in Nottingham. She then obtained a National Training Number in Geriatric Medicine in the North-East of England. In Newcastle upon Tyne she submitted a postgraduate MD thesis on "Autonomic Profile and Cerebral Autoregulation in Neurally-mediated Syncope". After working as a Consultant at the falls and syncope service in Newcastle upon Tyne for 18 months, Dr Tan returned to Malaysia and is now an Associate Professor in geriatric medicine at the University of Malaya. She is committed to research in health issues affecting older Malaysians and is currently the principal investigator to the Malaysian Falls Assessment and Intervention Trial (MyFAIT), and Promoting Independence in our Seniors with Arthritis (PISA) study.

Registration:

·      Forward completed Registration Form to jenny@adfm.org.my or Fax to 03 – 7960 8482  

·      If email or SMS, provide complete details with name/s, mobile contact, indicate you are a caregiver or healthcare worker.

More details, please contact Jenny/Michael at 03-7931 5850. Kindly register early for our refreshment and logistic arrangement. 

SAT/15NOV14 TALK ON SLEEP DISORDER & SLEEP HYGIENE BY PROF DATO DR RAYMOND AZMAN ALI, SENIOR CONSULTANT NEUROLOGIST

A gentle reminder to register early for the November Monthly Talk and Sharing Session for Caregivers and families on:

TOPIC:   SLEEP DISORDER

Sleep Disorders are common among Malaysians, but are often under diagnosed or mis-diagnosed. Disorders that will be covered include insomnia, and daytime hypersomnolence due to narcolepsy, and night time behavioural disturbances.

The Speaker, Prof Dato Dr Raymond Azman Ali in his talk will also be talking about SLEEP HYGIENE, an often neglected aspect of healthy lifestyle.

DAY / DATE:   Saturday, 15 November 2014

TIME:   2.00PM – 5.00pm

VENUE:   ADFM PJ Day Care Centre, No. 6 Lorong 11/8E, 46200 Petaling Jaya

The Speaker, Prof Dato Dr Raymond Azman Ali, a Senior Consultant Neurologist, is the Dean, Medical Faculty and Director UKM Medical Centre, Cheras, Kuala Lumpur.

Compulsory Registration – kindly complete the Registration Form and email to jenny@adfm.org.my or register via email with complete details of names, email/mobile contacts and indicate whether you are a caregiver or healthcare worker, etc.

Kindly register early for our refreshment and logistic arrangement. 

See all of you soon.

SAT/24 MAY 2014 ADFM Monthly Talk and Caregivers Sharing Session

MONTHLY TALK & CAREGIVERS SHARING SESSION

SATURDAY, 24 MAY 2014, 2.00PM TO 5.30PM

ADFM PJ DAYCARE CENTRE

TALK TITLED “DELIRIUM”

By Prof. Dato’ Dr Raymond Azman Ali

Senior Consultant Neurologist

Dean of UKM Medical Faculty and Director UKM Medical Centre

&  

SHARING “IT IS THE DISEASE – NOT THE PATIENT”

By Mdm Mui Siew Koon from Penang

Primary Caregiver for her late Mom

PROGRAM:

1.30pm    Taking Attendance

2.00pm    Talk “DELIRIUM” by Prof. Dato’ Dr Raymond Azman Ali

3.00pm     Q & As

4.00pm     Sharing “It Is The Disease – Not The Patient” by Mdm Mui Siew Koon               

4.45pm     Q & As

5.15pm     Refreshment/End

SYNOPSIS:

Delirium, also known as an acute confusional state, is a medical emergency. While most cases are reversible, some may be fatal. Delirium may be the first sign of a diffuse brain dysfunction leading to drowsiness, seizures, coma and eventually, death. Up to a quarter of geriatric admissions to hospital are due to delirium, and anywhere between 5 and 40% of all inpatients become delirious during admission. In the early stages of delirium, patients may first complain of disorganized thinking and diminished attention. Later, their sleep-wake cycle becomes interrupted and they may have perceptual disturbances. In the advanced stages, patients have memory deficits and altered psychomotor activity, and may be violent and abusive. Depending on the cause, some patients may develop epileptic seizures. Finally patients become progressively drowsy and may lapse into a coma. There is a myriad causes of delirium; these include alcohol and alcohol withdrawal, non-convulsive epileptic seizures, brain infection, prescribed and recreational drugs and toxins, organ failure, uncontrolled diabetes, stroke, head trauma and metabolic disorders (e.g. hypoglycaemia and hyponatraemia). The investigations required for a delirious patient depend on what the doctor finds on physical examination and history gathered from family members and witnesses. The cornerstone of treatment of delirium is to treat the underlying cause. While some patients may require chemical or physical restraint because of violent behaviour, the majority will settle down while waiting for the underlying cause to be treated with simple general measures, such as the reduction of “environment unfamiliarity”, in the same manner that one would manage a demented patient.

Speaker’s Profile:

PROF. DATO DR RAMOND AZMAN ALI was born in 1960 in Penang, Malaysia.  Prof Dato’ Dr Raymond Azman Ali is A Senior Consultant Neurologist and Dean of UKM Medical Faculty as well as Director of UKM Medical Centre.

He graduated from Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, with an Honours MBBS Degree in 1984, and Masters of Internal Medicine from the National University of Singapore and UKM in 1989 and 1991 respectively. He then completed his Doctorate in Epilepsy Research at the Institute of Neurology, Queen Square in London in 1994, and was awarded an MD (Monash University) in 1996, the FRCP (Ireland), FRCP (Glasgow) and FAMM in 2001. He was Head of the Department of Internal Medicine from 1999 to 2001, and deputy Dean from 2003 to 2008. He is currently Chairman of the Epilepsy Council of Malaysia, Member of the Ministry of Health Committee on Drugs Used in Neurology, and Committee on Neurology Subspecialty Training in Malaysia, a Member of the Editorial Board of Neurology Asia, and Ad Hoc Reviewer of several international journals, including Annals of Neurology, European Journal of Neurology, BMC Neurology and the Singapore Medical Journal.

He delivered more than 280 lectures locally and abroad and published 72 full journal papers and over 150 abstracts, proceedings and book chapters related to neurology. He has won the Best Teacher (Pengajar Cemerlang) award for the Health Sciences 6 times, the last one being conferred in 2009. And, in the 39-year history of UKM, he is the only recipient of the highest award for teaching in UKM so far, the Tokoh Pengajar Award in 2002. In 2009, he also received the Anugerah Akademik Negara or National Best Teacher Award from the Ministry of Higher of Education, making him the best teacher in the Health Sciences for the whole country for that year. He was the first medical doctor to ever win this prestigious award, and no other doctor has since won this award again. In 2011, he was named Tokoh Merdeka of Malaysia and joined the parade of other joint recipients before the Prime Minister of Malaysia and in 2012, he was presented with the Tokoh Penyelidik award at the 14th Health Sciences Research Week of UKM.

PARTICIPANTS:

Priority will be for Caregivers and their families.  We open to Nurses / Carers from the nursing / community care homes who directly or indirectly are involved in the care of persons living with dementia. 

Certificate of Attendance will be issued by ADFM to participants who are nurses.

COMPULSORY PRE-REGISTRATION: (NO WALK-IN PLEASE)

1.  Click on "Registration Form" and email completed form to jenny@adfm.org.my or Fax to 03 7960 8482.

2.  SMS 016 608 2513 indicating (a) full name, (b) Caregiver  (Yes / No), and (c) Tel/mobile contacts, if you do not have access to email.

Further information, contact jenny@adfm.org.my or call 016 608 2513 / 03 7931 5850.

From:  ADFM National Caregivers Support Network

May 2014