On-demand content
We host regular webinars on a range of topics related to living with dementia. You can access a selection of videos from previous webinars divided by theme.
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You can register for upcoming webinars, or see all of our videos on our YouTube Channel 'AlzheimerBC.'
The most recent webinars were Getting to know dementia: What is dementia? on March 22 and Lived experience: Sensory experience of dementia on March 29.
Dementia foundations
- What is dementia? (44 minutes)
- Understanding dementia (17 minutes)
- Dementia and the brain (16 minutes)
- Progression and symptoms (17 minutes)
- 10 warning signs of dementia (4 minutes)
- Myths and treatments (17 minutes)
- Understanding communication changes (37 minutes)
- Basic facts about behaviour (9 minutes)
- Understanding and responding to behaviours (22 minutes)
- Meaningful activities for dementia (9 minutes)
- Coping with change, grief, and loss (45 minutes)
Dementia topics
Click on the following dementia topics to see available on-demand content:
- Accessing services
- Activities
- Advocacy
- Behaviour
- Brain health
- Caregiving
- Communication
- Dementia-friendly communities
- Diagnosis
- End of life
- Grief and Loss
- Hearing
- Lived experience series
- Living with dementia
- Long-term care
- Music
- Personal planning and finances
- Progression
- Questions and answers
- Research
- Resilience
- Virtual visits
Accessing services
- Accessing services (playlist)
Activities
- Making activities dementia-inclusive (32 minutes)
- Activities for warmer weather (58 minutes)
- Activities to do at home (24 minutes)
- Activities to do with someone living with dementia(48 minutes)
Advocacy
Behaviour
- Bathing and personal hygiene (29 minutes)
- Delusions, hallucinations and visual mistakes (28 minutes)
- Dressing and grooming (35 minutes))
- Responsive behaviours (28 minutes)
- Sundowning (late-day confusion) (23 minutes)
- Targeted strategies for denial, paranoia, anxiety and shadowing (45 minutes)
- Targeted strategies for word salad, confabulation, wanting to go home and asking for deceased relatives (43 minutes)
- Understanding behaviour changes (36 minutes)
Brain health
- An introduction to brain health (31 minutes)
- Taking the 'fog' out of brain fog using a multidimensional approach - with Dr. Heather Palmer (53 minutes)
- The why and what behind brain changes in challenging times - with Dr. Heather Palmer (55 minutes)
- Physical activity for your brain and mobility health with Dr. Liu-Ambrose (58 minutes)
Caregiving
- Caregiving during COVID-19 (23 minutes)
- Family dynamics in dementia caregiving - with Jodi McDonald, MSW (59 minutes)
- How to support a friend who has dementia or is a caregiver (41 minutes)
- Long-distance caregiving (35 minutes)
Communication
- Understanding communication changes (37 minutes)
- Communication: How dementia affects communication(20 minutes)
- Communication: Strategies and tips (35 minutes)
Dementia-friendly communities
- Dementia Friends (24 minutes)
- Jim’s story: Dementia-friendly communities (7 minutes)
- Show your courage, raise your voice: Jim Mann (2 minutes)
- Show your courage, raise your voice: Lynn Jackson (1 minute)
- Show your courage, raise your voice: Mario Gregorio (1 minute)
Diagnosis
- Responding to diagnosis (36 minutes)
End of life
- Advanced care planning introduction – my wishes, my care(45 minutes)
- MAiD and dementia with Dr. Dirk Coetsee (57 minutes)
- Preparing for end-of-life on the dementia journey (32 minutes)
- What is palliative care (52 minutes)
Grief and loss
- Coping with change, grief, and loss (45 minutes)
- Grief and loss and the dementia experience: A panel discussion (60 minutes)
Hearing
Lived experience series
Guest speakers who are either living with dementia or caring for someone living with dementia
- Lived experience: Caregivers' creative expression of the dementia journey (65 minutes)
- Lived experience: Painting the journey (50 minutes)
- Lived experience: Preparing for the holidays (56 minutes)
- Lived experience: Sensory experience of dementia (56 minutes)
- Lived experience: Walking the dementia journey (54 minutes)
- Lived experience: What I wish I'd known when I was diagnosed (56 minutes)
- Lived experience: What I wish I'd known - Tips and strategies (61 minutes)
Living with dementia
- Living safely with dementia (47 minutes)
- Coping with the changes brought by dementia (46 minutes)
- Travelling with dementia (28 minutes)
- Staying healthy in a time of change and uncertainty (14 minutes)
- Preparing for the holidays (38 minutes)
- Preparing for the holidays during COVID-19 (29 minutes)
- Driving and dementia (25 minutes)
- Transit accessibility and challenges: Tips for people living with dementia (58 minutes)
Long-term care
- Considering the transition to long-term care (44 minutes)
- Adjusting to long-term care (36 minutes)
- Life in long-term care (48 minutes)
- More than a visitor: Care planning in a changing environment (65 minutes)
- Understanding Care Conferences with guest speakers Dr. Gloria Puurveen & Dr. Heather Cooke (53 minutes)
Music
Personal planning and finances
- Advanced care planning introduction – my wishes, my care (45 minutes)
- Personal planning in pandemic times with Emily Clough (60 minutes)
- IG Wealth Management Financial Confidence Workshop
- Personal planning (playlist)
- Personal planning along the dementia journey (40 minutes)
- Personal safety (19 minutes)
- Driving and dementia (19 minutes)
- Strategies for difficult conversations (9 minutes)
Progression
- Mapping your journey: stages and progression of dementia (40 minutes)
- Preparing for end-of-life on the dementia journey (32 minutes)
- What is palliative care (52 minutes)
Questions and answers
- How do I: help someone who has trouble communicating, respond to behaviours that trigger me, provide support when I’m not the primary care partner? (56 minutes)
- How do I: discuss a dementia diagnosis; help to de-escalate anxiety; get a case manager? (50 minutes)
- Panel discussion: Commonly asked questions about dementia
Research
- The who, what, where and when of Alzheimer’s disease biomarker testing with Dr. Mari DeMarco (52 minutes)
- Dementia-friendly cancer care with Dr. Shelly Canning (53 minutes)
- Deciphering research headlines (51 minutes)
- Disorientation among people living with dementia (56 minutes)
- Research ready: Cardiovascular risk factors and dementia with Elyn Rowe (64 minutes)
- Research ready: Technology in dementia research during COVID-19 (49 minutes)
- Research ready: Extending the cognitive healthspan (61 minutes)
- Research ready: Early diagnosis and dementia (31 minutes)
- Research ready: The healthy aging brain with Dr. Jodie Gawryluk and team (60 minutes)
- Research 101: Dispelling the myths about dementia research (60 minutes)
Resilience
- Guilt and grief (20 minutes)
- Strategies for building resilience (18 minutes)
- Building caregiver resilience (playlist)
- Building caregiver resilience for the dementia journey: The gift of mindfulness with Dr. Elisabeth Drance (56 minutes)
- Building caregiver resilience for the dementia journey: The skill of self-compassion with Dr. Elisabeth Drance (44 minutes)
- Building resilience: Staying healthy in a time of change and uncertainty (42 minutes)
- Staying healthy in a time of change and uncertainty: Building resilience (31 minutes)
Virtual visits
Punjabi-language videos
- Preparing for the holidays (25 minutes)
Brain health
- The brain and dementia (17 minutes)
- How to keep your brain healthy (18 minutes)
Communication
- How dementia impacts communication (12 minutes)
- Communication strategies (15 minutes)
Dementia friends
- Dementia overview (23 minutes)
- Communication tips (14 minutes)
- Dementia-friendly communities (15 minutes)
Getting to know dementia
- What is dementia? (10 minutes)
- Dementia and the brain (8 minutes)
- Myths, supports and planning (13 minutes)
- 10 warning signs of dementia (13 minutes)
Chinese-language videos
- Beside you - a caregiver story (Cantonese) (5 minutes)
- Eric's story (Cantonese) (5 minutes)
- Jim's story (Cantonese) (7 minutes)
- Accessing care services during COVID19 (Cantonese) (53 minutes)
- Caregiving during COVID19 (Cantonese) (53 minutes)
- 10 Warning Signs of Dementia (Cantonese) (3 minutes)
Dementia friends
- Dementia-friendly communities (Cantonese) (18 minutes)
- What is dementia and communication tips (Cantonese) (14 minutes)