Welcome to the Alzheimer Society of Alberta and Northwest Territories Knowledge Hub for Brain Healthy Families.
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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.
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After completing the course, you will be able to:
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This course has four lessons:
Each lesson is broken down into topics that contain useful information and activities that test your understanding.
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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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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.
This is a toolkit to help you as a care partner prepare for possible changes or events, so you can support your family member with dementia in care. “In care” means receiving 24-hour care in a facility, for example, long-term care.
It is a natural human reaction to hope when facing challenges. When living with a progressive illness, what we hope for changes over time. Hope always remains present.
