There Must Be A Better Way Than This!

We aren't born knowing how to communicate with someone with dementia. You'll learn simple tools and tips that make caregiving easier and will help keep you connected with your loved one. This half-day workshop will combine a lecture format with state-of-the-art videos and discussion.

Saturday, April 28, 2007
9:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon

Saturday, May 19, 2007
9:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon
Bay Area CRC / Family Caregiver Alliance

It Takes Two: A Refreshing Approach to Understanding Dementia Behavior

A four-week class to help caregivers of someone with memory loss better understand and communicate with their family member. Learn new ways to respond to troubling behavior. Feel more confident and positive about your caregiving role.

Four Thursdays, May 3, 10, 17 and 24, 2007
10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Bay Area CRC / Family Caregiver Alliance

Four Wednesdays, May 30 and June 6, 13, 20, 2007
10:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Southern Caregiver Resource Center

Memory Loss and You

Learn how our health problems can affect our memory and the actions we can take to reverse or treat these illness-related memory losses. Learn about types of memory loss that cannot be reversed and the impact they have on the daily functions in our life. If you are worried about a family member and memory loss, this is the class for you.

Tuesday, May 8, 2007
1:00 - 2:30 p.m.
Southern Caregiver Resource Center

Taking Care of You: Powerful Tools for Caregiving

Learn clear and effective tools to prevent caregiver burnout. This class teaches self-care skills, enabling caregivers to reduce personal stress, change negative thinking, better communicate with family and healthcare providers, and to make difficult caregiving decisions.

Six Wednesdays, May 2, 9, 16, 23, 30 and June 6, 2007
1:00 - 3:30 p.m.
Los Angeles Caregiver Resource Center

Six Wednesdays, May 9, 16, 23, 30 and June 6, 13, 2007
6:00 - 8:30 p.m.
Orange Caregiver Resource Center

Six Fridays, June 1, 8, 15, 22, 29 and July 6, 2007
1:00 - 3:00 p.m.
Valley Caregiver Resource Center

Difficult Conversations About Difficult Decisions

Learn how to discuss end of life care with your loved one. This one day workshop teaches you how to make difficult caregiving decisions that will honor your loved one's health care wishes and explains how to avoid having to make tough decisions alone or during a time of crisis.

Monday, May 14, 2007
1:30 - 4:30 p.m.
Valley Caregiver Resource Center

Live Strong and Safe In Your Home and In Your Life

This valuable workshop will teach you about the importance of home safety for both you and your loved one. You will learn methods to modify your home to make it safer. You also will learn more about the positive benefits of exercise to enhance your health and prevent falls. Interactive demonstrations, raffle prize drawings and lots of free handouts!

Wednesday, May 16, 2007
9:45 - 11:45 a.m.
Del Oro Caregiver Resource Center

Activites at Home: Planning the Day for a Person with Dementia

Without help, finding ways to keep the one you are caring for active can be a daunting task, especially if the person has limited cognitive or physical abilities. Join us as Jackie Ravera, Activity Coordinator for Senior Day Services of El Dorado County, shares and demonstrates many new and creative ideas for activities that will lessen your caregiving chores while increasing your loved ones' quality of life.

Wednesday, May 16, 2007
1:30 - 3:00 p.m.
Del Oro Caregiver Resource Center

TeleCaregiving Workshop: Caring for Someone with Memory Loss (in Spanish)

A free telephone workshop in Spanish—you don't even have to leave your home or office! There are often questions when an older relative or friend has memory loss. This presentation will answer your questions and provide simple ideas to help you take care of your loved one. You will learn: what causes memory loss, how to best communicate with your loved one, how to handle behaviors associated with memory loss. Register online below. Once you have registered, we will provide you with (one week before the workshop) the toll-free dial-in number for the telephone conference call and training materials in Spanish.

Wednesday, May 23, 2007
11:45 a.m. - 1:15 p.m.
California's Caregiver Resource Centers, Alzheimer's Disease Research Centers of California, AARP and Johnson & Johnson

Controlling Your Frustrations

A four week series designed to teach family caregivers skills for dealing with the anger and frustration associated with caregiving.

Four Thursdays, May 24, 31, June 7 and 14, 2007
2:00 - 4:00 p.m.
Valley Caregiver Resource Center

Surviving and Stroke: Practical Advice for Caregivers

Are you a caregiver for a loved one who is recovering from a stroke? Do you wish that you knew more about strokes so you could better assist your loved one. Learn about the warning signs of a stroke, the symptoms of a stroke, the different types of strokes, how to prevent strokes and how to assist your loved one with activities of daily living while recovering from a stroke.

Friday, May 25, 2007
10:00 - 11:30 a.m.
Del Oro Caregiver Resource Center

Legal and Financial Planning

Please come and attend this free workshop about a subject that concerns us all—how to effectively plan for our loved ones and ourselves as we meet the challenge of growing older and facing incapacity. You will learn more about durable powers of attorney for healthcare and finances, wills and probate, conservatorship, estate planning and Medi-Cal.

Wednesday, May 30, 2007
12:30 - 2:00 p.m.
Del Oro Caregiver Resource Center

Taking Care of You: Life, Love and Happiness

In this course you have an opportunity to explore what is or might be keeping you from living life to the fullest. You will learn about the effects of happiness on your health and well being and new ways to look at compassion, harmony and life.

Wednesday, May 30, 2007
1:00 - 2:30 p.m.
Southern Caregiver Resource Center

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