Dementia & AlzheimerS Association Of Tasmania Inc
Home in Canberra

Alzheimer’s Australia provides a counseling service for people with dementia, their families and friends. Our Living With Dementia Series provides people in the premature stages of dementia, along with their families and carers, with a program of information, advice and peer urge to assist them to come to terms with their condition and plan for the future. Our carer support groups produce an environment in which carers of people with dementia can discuss issues with other people in a similar situation. Our highly competent educators donate specialized dementia education, sessions, and programs for family members and carers of people living with dementia. Support for family carers, people with dementia, health professionals and community concern workers. The Library and Information Service provides access to quality dementia related consumer health information and resources. counselors are competent professionals who are trained to produce support, advice and attainable assistance. Dementia counseling can aid individuals and families by: Identifying strategies for coping and living with dementia. Often a family conference with a dementia counselor is a precious first step in making sure that everyone apprehensive is at the same slick of accepting and can prosper complimentary encourage roles. Family counseling can also support family groups to labor towards improving relationships when finding ways to cope with living with dementia. Key Workers identify and address gaps in services and construct capacity through consultation, networking and collaboration with service providers and consumers. People with younger onset dementia, their carers, families and friends can expect to receive consumer directed, person centered encourage from their key worker. Key workers will yield information on the services available to people with younger onset dementia and empower consumers to make decisions regarding their own life and care. Key workers will bear education on younger onset dementia to sector staff, aid organizations to modify their services to better confront the needs of people with younger onset dementia and facilitate collaborative care between services. Take suitable dementia education and information. Learn coping mechanisms and techniques such as stress management and relaxation etc. Alzheimer’s Australia's highly adept counselors and facilitators present specialized dementia education to people with dementia and their families, as healthy as those who work with people with dementia. The Younger Onset Dementia Key Worker Program is also the only program registered to deliver Odis funded services that is entirely dedicated to supporting people with a diagnosis of younger onset dementia. Their dementia specific focus and experience supporting people with younger onset dementia during the Odis trial phase means your younger onset dementia key worker are healthy prepared to assist guide you and your family through all aspects of the Odis. Your younger onset dementia key worker can encourage you, your family and carer in a number of ways as you prepare to develop your first Odis individual funded plan. Your younger onset dementia key worker can: Assist and promote you and your family or carer as you prepare for your first meeting with an Odis planner by working with you to identify your existing needs and supports. Attend your Odis planning meeting with you, at your request, to encourage and advocate for you to help ensure a comprehensive and good plan is developed for you and.