ADVANCE CARE PLANNING: Supporting those living with Dementia

ADVANCE CARE PLANNING: Supporting those living with Dementia

This training will prepare behavioral health and aging services professionals, along with caregivers, to support individuals living with dementia with advance care planning.

Learning Objectives:
1.What advance care planning is and why it’s needed.
2.How to initiate difficult but essential conversations
3. What are the dementia-specific considerations, personal values and preferences to document.
4.What behavioral health and aging services professionals can do to assist clients and caregivers with advance care planning.
5.Where to find reliable support and resources.

Bios:
Angela Franklin, QMHA, EOLD Angela is an Older Adult Behavioral Health Specialist and Suicide Prevention Coordinator with Options for Southern Oregon, serving Josephine County. She is her county’s Postvention Response Lead and heads the Josephine County Suicide Prevention Coalition. She provides workforce and community trainings on a variety of topics surrounding older adult behavioral health and wellness, end of life support, advanced care planning, and suicide prevention/intervention/postvention (QPR, ASIST and CONNECT). Angela is a practicing Death Midwife. She has worked with older adults as a caregiver, hospice volunteer, end of life doula and community educator. She is a founder of Journey Home DeathCare, a community-driven organization based on practical death care, education, outreach, and community grieving support.

KIM KASIAH, Certified PAC Dementia Coach, Trainer, and Champion Teacher Kim Kasiah has lived in Southern Oregon all of her life. The first person to teach her about dementia was her beloved grandma and never forgot what it felt like to be an overwhelmed family member while trying to make sense of the changes that dementia can bring. In 2013, she left a 20-year career in the optometry field to pursue working in the senior care industry as a marketing director at an assisted living to follow her passion of helping & working with older adults and their families. The following year she founded a family member/caregiver support group through the Alzheimer’s Association in Grants Pass, OR and continues to facilitate it currently 10 years later. Teaching dementia education classes on the behalf of the Alzheimer’s Association since 2014, she found education was the key to understanding and unlocking many of the mysteries of this confusing disease. In 2016, Kim became a Certified PAC Dementia Trainer through Teepa Snow’s Positive Approaches to Care® (PAC™) program and later, a Certified Dementia Coach to help the caregiver apply the training to the individual & situation. In 2023, she received her third certification as a PAC Champion Teacher to offer advanced training & skills to caregivers & families. She has been a trainer for Oregon Care Partners since 2016, in addition to the Alzheimer’s Association, long term care facilities, adult foster homes and families. In June, 2023 she was honored to teach alongside her longtime mentor, Teepa Snow, the founder of Positive Approaches to Care (PAC).

This is a part of the 2024 Geriatric Competencies Series -- A free monthly workforce development training series focusing on geriatric competencies for medical and mental health professionals and paraprofessionals who work with older adults. One Thursday each month 9-11 am

* Brought to you by the Older Adult Behavioral Health Initiative Specialists of Coos, Curry, Douglas, Jackson and Josephine Counties. For more info, visit: www.oregonbhi.org