Beverley Tanseco leads a free Alzheimer’s disease-focused workshop Sept. 26 to help family caregivers, presented by West Vancouver’s Home Instead Senior Care. Topics included Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias, techniques to encourage a loved one to share stories and memories, ways to handle challenging behaviours, and activities to encourage engagement. The next family Alzheimer’s workshops will be held Thursday, Oct. 23 and Tuesday, Oct. 28 from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. at West Vancouver’s Home Instead Senior Care, located at 201-2232 Marine Dr. Registration and info: 604-925-1570 or janet.hassell@homeinstead.com. Home Instead offers a number of Alzheimer’s care resources via helpforalzheimersfamilies.ca, including a companion app for on-the-go dementia care advice, live online chats with experts and a dementia care guidebook, entitled Confidence to Care.
