caregiver training
Do you know an unpaid caregiver looking after a loved one with a life limiting illness in Lanark, Leeds and Grenville? The Practical Caregiver Training is back. It’s free and it’s virtual. Join us for 5 weeks of training:
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Advance Care Planning
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Providing Personal Care
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Lifts, Transfers and Body Mechanics
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Medication Management,
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Self Care, Dignity and Grief
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What to Expect at the End of Life
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Navigating the system and Communication
This is a peer-facilitated workshop led by a local team including a Caregiver, Palliative Care Nurse and Physiotherapist.
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This workshop series will be offered…..
Canadian Virtual Hospice
Canadian Virtual Hospice: This is an incredible virtual resource for anyone faced with death and dying; both for themselves and a loved one. Aside from the “Ask a Professional” option where some of Canada’s leading Hospice Palliative Care people answer your questions privately, there is a slew of resources for caregivers. They have caregiving videos that provide step-by-step instructions on common caregiving tasks. Examples of other resources on their website:
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Death
Preparing for a Home Death
If you or your loved one has been diagnosed with a life-limiting illness and they wish/plan to die at home https://akkalove.ca/support-and-resources-for-death-and-dying/caregiver-support/
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After Death Care
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Natural Burial - Elmwood Cemetery Perth
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Grief and Bereavement
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Canadian Virtual Hospice Grief websites
Link to our page on grief and bereavement
Ann Silversides, a local author and healthcare journalist has done an audio series on grief.
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Spiritual
Link to Finding Meaning and Purpose during a Health Crisis? [link to the actual source page/website] Who wrote this? Not sure we should include it. Needs to be vetted.
Link to great books [we can link to a page that has a full on listing and just include ones that have been meaningful to one of us and that we can provide a little blurb about… otherwise it will again be a list that is available elsewhere; would be good to have a list of ones that are available from our catchment area libraries - something to ask them; smiths falls, westport, portland, perth, lanark]
Ann Silversides would be happy to do book reviews. She is a local author journalist. Has done a series on grief.
