How to Ignite the Spark of Life®
The focus of this 4-hour education is on the quality of the connection between the carer and the person with dementia, building competencies in the psychological and emotional aspects of care that flow on to also benefit clinical care practices such as how to engage while providing wound care.
The education facilitates the fundamental shift from being emotionally disengaged to being emotionally engaged creating the foundation for an equal and respectful relationship that humanises the experience of dementia. This is also the basis for solving behaviours of concern and facilitating rementia – the recovery of lost abilities.
Specific Learning Objectives
Participants will learn to:
- Facilitate rehabilitation and independence
- Ensure people with dementia feel respected, valued, and safe
- Empower the person to make choices and decisions
- Support the person in regaining their lost identity
- Understand the many ways people with dementia communicate their needs and wants, approvals, and disapprovals
- Deeply understand people with dementia, how they think and feel
- Foster improved relationships between staff, residents, and their families
What sets the Spark of Life® Education apart?
We can often see ‘WHAT’ needs to be done but we don’t know ‘HOW’ to do it. The Spark of Life Philosophy and Education is focused not only on the ‘WHAT’ but on giving participants simple, practical and unique solutions to the ‘HOW.’
It is one of the real strengths of this philosophy.
Spark of Life’s specialised education is immensely practical. With its focus on the psychosocial aspect of care, it fills an important gap in current dementia education.
The skills acquired from the education are equally applicable for staff in aged and disability services working in residential, community, and palliative care, as well as in hospital settings. It is for anyone who is in contact with people who have dementia – no matter what their role or position.
The education is delivered in an inspiring, energising, and captivating format that is easy to understand and remember and the language used is geared at people of all cultural backgrounds and levels of English comprehension.
About Dementia Care International
Dementia Care International is an Australian organisation based in Victoria. We operate independently of other dementia organisations and dementia education services.
Our purpose is to support health care services around the world excel in their social and emotional care practices.
This is achieved through specialized education on the Spark of Life Philosophy and through the implementation of the Spark of Life Model of Care.
About the Presenter
Jane Verity
Jane Verity is the Founder, Director, and CEO of Dementia Care International and the Spark of Life Philosophy, as well as a world leader and pioneer in elevating the standards of emotional care of people with dementia.
Now living in Melbourne, Australia, Jane is originally from Denmark with her roots in the Scandinavian Health Care System. She has
a background in Occupational Therapy, is a Family Therapist in Advanced Systems Theory, a Master Practitioner in NLP – (Neuro Linguistic Programming) and an internationally certified Professional Speaker.
Jane has authored two internationally published books and contributes regularly to national and international conferences and journals.
