GPEP Educational Services
Education Workshops
The Geropsychiatric Education Program strives to adapt
all its programs to meet the unique learning needs within your environment.
All of the programs noted below can be adapted in:
- Length: sessions are a minimum of 1 hour
- Content: can be adapted for non-professional staff, professionals,
and family caregivers
- Scheduling: we will work with you to arrange a time that best meets the
needs of learners
Please read more about registration and contact us at gpep@vch.ca to work out a learning plan for your site.
GPEP Core Programs Index
Abuse Prevention in Residential Care
- Identify behaviour that is considered abusive
- Identify risk factors for resident abuse
- Strategies for enhancing a supportive resident environment
- Personal strategies to prevent abuse
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Bathing Strategies and Techniques
- Explore factors that create bathing challenges for clients with dementia
- Discuss solutions and strategies to bathing challenges
- Explore responses to refusal, agitation and aggression while bathing
- Identify appropriate responses to sexual overtures
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Bipolar Disorder in the Older Adult
- Define Bipolar Disorder
- Review symptoms and behaviours
- Discuss treatment and related issues
- Review the impact of these conditions on the older adult
- Develop care strategies
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Communication with Persons with Cognitive Impairment
- Understand how the changes in dementia affect communication abilities
- Examine our own communication style and how we come across to residents
- Discuss strategies for successful communication with residents with dementia
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Delirium
- Define delirium and identify causes and symptoms of delirium
- Distinguish clinical subtypes of delirium and differentiate from other 2 D’s
- Utilize a screening tool for delirium
- Review communication approach when working with a delirious client
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Dementia: the 4 Common Dementias
- Describe aspects of the dementia journey
- Identify distinguishing features for the 4 subtypes of dementia
- Discuss challenges associated with end-stage dementia
- Discuss treatment and care approaches
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Depression and Suicide
- Describe the presentation of depression in the older adult
- Review tools for assessing the presence of a depression
- Discuss treatment and care approaches
- Identify risk factors for suicide
- Review communication strategies for working with a suicidal client
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Intimacy, Sexuality, and Dementia
- Reflect on our own values related to sexuality
- Explore reasons for residents’ sexual behaviour
- Discuss strategies for responding respectfully to residents’ sexual behaviour
- Use decision making tools to help with care planning
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Obsessive Compulsive Disorders in the Older Adult
- Define Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
- Review symptoms
- Discuss the presentation and complications of these conditions in the older adult
- Examine causes and treatment
- Discuss care strategies
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Pain and Palliative Care in Dementia
- Describe aspects of the dementia journey
- Identify distinguishing features for the 4 subtypes of dementia
- Discuss challenges associated with end-stage dementia and pain behaviours
- State the role of medications within the journey
- Review practical techniques for providing comfort care to clients in end-stage dementia
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Personality Disorders in the Older Adult
- Define and review types of personality disorders
- Discuss the presentation and complications of these conditions in the older adult
- Review the causes and characteristics
- Explore care strategies for working with a client with a BPD
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Responding to Anxiety, Agitation, and Aggression
- Review common features of dementia
- Describe escalation stages of behaviour:
Anxiety, agitation, and aggression
- Explore triggers for residents’ behaviour
- Discuss how to respond to residents who are in different stages of behaviour including verbal and physical techniques
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Schizophrenia in the Older Adult
- Define Schizophrenia
- Review symptoms and causes
- Discuss the presentation and complications of these conditions in the older adult
- Provide an overview treatment and discuss some general care strategies
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Learn More
For more information regarding GPEP courses, please contact
Jennifer Ho, Mental Health Assistant
- Phone: 604-708-5224
- Fax: 604-874-7661
- Or email gpep@vch.ca
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