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A Changing Melody is not like other conferences, it's a forum designed by and for persons with early-stage dementia and their family partners in care. The toolkit helps individuals, groups, and/or organizations plan and implement their own forums. DVDs are available featuring powerful presentations from past forums.

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The By Us For Us guides are a series of resources created by a talented and passionate group of people living with dementia and their care partners. These guides are designed to provide people living with dementia and their care partners with the necessary tools to enhance their well-being and manage daily challenges.

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The Care Partner Emergency Card is a resource that partners in care can carry to indicate they support someone else that may need help, in case the partner in care becomes ill or is not able to communicate with a first responder.

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CHOICE+ is an innovative program that aims to improve the mealtime experience for residents in long-term care. These two user-friendly checklists and six online education modules are available to help teams in long-term care improve their mealtime practices.

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We believe that when LIVING is first, everyone thrives. Culture change coaches from the RIA will guide your senior living organization on a culture change journey to build on existing strengths, shift the focus to person-centred care and put LIVING first.

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Regular physical activity improves balance and mobility, supports independence, and improves heart and bone health for both people living with dementia and individuals with no cognitive impairment. In this resource, you will find physical activity guidelines for people living with, or at risk of, dementia, advice for planning an at-home physical activity plan and strategies that may help support physical activity among people living with dementia.

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The Functional Foods for Healthy Aging Toolkit is a collection of resources on functional foods for older adults. It supports Registered Dietitians and other health professionals in communicating with older adults about the role of functional foods in healthy aging.

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GeriMedRisk connects clinicians with geriatric specialists to support deprescribing and medication optimization for older adults.

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Having the Conversation is for adult children and close friends of older adults to help guide conversations around later-life care planning.

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The Leadership in Senior Living Program equips leaders (current or aspiring) with the skills they need to effectively lead high-functioning teams and support person-centred care in today’s senior living sector.

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This guide provides information and tools for long-term care (LTC) homes and post-secondary educators (e.g., community colleges) that have an interest in collaborating to create shared learning environments for personal support worker (PSW) education and workforce development

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LIVING the Dementia Journey (LDJ) is an award-winning, evidence-informed training program for those who support people living with dementia. Participants gain awareness and understanding that changes not only the way they view dementia, but the way they support people living with it.

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These summary sheets share some of the key findings and recommendations from a research study called Making the Most of Mealtimes (M3). The study explored what residents living in long-term care eat and drink, and what factors promote better nutrition.

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The Mealtime Satisfaction Questionnaire (MSQ) is a short, 14-question tool to help understand the overall satisfaction of older adults living in retirement and/or long-term care with meals and the mealtime experience.

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The Memory Clinic is a multidisciplinary approach for early diagnosis, treatment and support of changes associated with memory loss.

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The Nutrition in Disguise (NID) project focuses on creating nutrient-dense recipes by adding healthy ingredients to common foods that older adults enjoy.

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This resource provides a selection of recipes that feature Ontario-grown foods and cater to the needs and preferences of older adults living in the community. Organized by dish (beverages, breakfast, snacks, salads, soups/stews, sides, mains, and desserts), there are over 50 recipes to choose from!

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As our population ages, long-term care homes must meet the growing needs of a culturally-diverse population. This report summarizes the findings from a needs assessment to explore strategies to better support cultural diversity in long-term care homes.

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Ontario’s Indigenous people have unique cultural requirements that must be supported by health care, including long-term care. This report summarizes the findings from a needs assessment to explore strategies to better support Ontario’s Indigenous people in long-term care homes.

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These three resources aimed to help support people living with dementia include information on understanding dementia, assisting a resident living with dementia to bathe, and assisting a resident living with dementia with dressing, undressing and continence.

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Beans have a number of nutritional qualities to support healthy aging, and they're delicious! This toolkit shares easy recipes and simple tips to include beans in your daily diet.

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Tips for Better Pureed Foods is a resource about improving texture-modified foods for older adults with swallowing difficulties. It provides recipes and guidelines for preparing pureed foods.

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Developed in partnership with the Waterloo-Wellington Local Health Integration Network, these reports are the framework for the Strategy. This work was guided by an advisory committee and informed by the experiences and perspectives of older adults, families and care partners.

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The Young Carers Project was a community collaborative working together with young carers in the Region of Waterloo to educate the public about the existence and needs of young carers and motivate the community to action.

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