On-demand content

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

Punjabi-language videos

Chinese-language videos

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

• Equip yourself: Knowledge and skills to help get the support you need (54 minutes)
• Raise your voice: Dementia, long-term care and COVID-19 (55 minutes)
• More than a visitor: Care planning in a changing environment (65 minutes)

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

• Understanding the connections between hearing loss and dementia (60 minutes)

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

• Music and the brain - key considerations for dementia (58 minutes)

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

• Virtual visits: Making the most of video calling (47 minutes)
• Virtual visits: Making the most of video calling with health-care providers (11 minutes)

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)