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My Tools 4 Care was developed to help you as a care partner as you care for a person living with dementia in the community.
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Dementia Supportive Communities: Everyday Skills That Make a Difference
Welcome to the Alzheimer Society of Alberta and Northwest Territories Knowledge Hub for Brain Healthy Families.
Course Introduction
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Welcome to Dementia Supportive Communities: Everyday Skills That Make a Difference.
This short course is for community members, leaders, and workers who want to understand dementia and help make life better for people affected by it.
Whether you joined out of curiosity, care, or because it’s part of your role, this course will give you clear tools, real stories, and useful examples. You’ll build both confidence and empathy as you learn.
You’ll discover how dementia affects people and families, what you can do to reduce barriers, and how small actions – when many people take them – can change whole communities.
By the end, you won’t just know more about dementia. You’ll know how to help create communities where everyone belongs.
Learning Outcomes
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After completing the course, you will be able to:
- Explain what dementia is, including common symptoms and how they may show up in daily life.
- Understand the practical and emotional effects of dementia on individuals and families.
- Describe what it means to be part of a Dementia Supportive Community.
- Take confident first steps to make your own community more dementia supportive.
Course Breakdown
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This course has four lessons:
- Introduction to dementia
- The impacts of dementia
- Dementia Supportive Communities
- Your Dementia Supportive Communities Toolkit
Each lesson is broken down into topics that contain useful information and activities that test your understanding.
How to Navigate and Complete the Course
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To begin, click on a lesson in the Course Sessions section at the bottom of this page. From there, you can move through the lessons and topics using the buttons at the bottom of each page.
When you have reviewed all the topics and successfully completed the activities for each lesson, you’ll receive a certificate. This shows your commitment to raising awareness, reducing stigma, and taking dementia supportive actions.
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Early Stage
In the early stage, subtle changes in one’s abilities are noticeable to people living with dementia and/or to the people close to them. Everyone in the circle is re-arranging roles and responsibilities, consciously or not.
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Middle Stage
Dementia may be something you have lived with for a while or a shorter time. As dementia progresses, the abilities of the person living with dementia change too. They are working hard to keep up with daily life and need an increasing amount of support to make sense of the world around them. As dementia progresses, roles and responsibilities change for everyone involved. All the changes bring new emotions and grief.
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