Please join us for Hospice of the Valley’s “Dementia Moments” workshop, an 8-minute experience that presses participants to perform some daily living tasks as if they were living with Alzheimer’s disease or another dementia.
Through this experience, participants feel the frustrations of someone living with dementia. The workshop involves performing simple tasks, such as buttoning a shirt or counting coins, while wearing gloves, goggles and headphones blaring background noise. The goal is not to mimic dementia, but to simulate the emotional experience of someone with dementia trying to perform in a normal world while living in a very different world with distorted perception and difficulty thinking.
After the experience, participants share their thoughts and feelings. They discuss what might have helped them perform the tasks better and learn some approaches to minimize the distress of people living with dementia.
Speaker, Helena Morgan, COTA/L
WHEN:
Thursday, June 23, 2022 1–2:30 p.m.
WHERE:
Home Instead
14621 N. Del Webb Blvd.
Sun City, AZ 85351
Light refreshments served. Free and open to all.
RSVP to Vicki
(623) 499-3290 or Vicki.castleman@homeinstead.com
