The Family Caregiver Wellness workshops aim to help families acquire the skills and knowledge to effectively and safely care for their loved ones. NorQuest has used its highly regarded expertise in training healthcare workers and providing basic elements to help family caregivers care for and cope with care requirements when creating these workshops.

Many family caregivers often feel isolated and overburdened and the COVID-19 pandemic has added even more implications. Many feel they do not have adequate knowledge in healthcare to provide effective and safe care for their loved ones. Through these workshops, family caregivers will learn from healthcare professionals the skills and techniques to best care for their loved ones and learn about valuable support resources.

All workshops address the following:

• Ability ranges: Modifications that range from caring for an independent senior to the high needs senior.

• Observation of health status: While providing personal care, learn to assess the health of your loved one to ensure you are a step ahead of any age-related changes that may need a consultation with a health care provider.

• Tips on how to effectively communicate with loved ones and health care providers to ensure the dignity of loved ones is maintained.

• Pairing of complementary tools to assist you in activities of daily living, resulting in decreased stress and pressure for you and your loved one.

• Application of appropriate decision making and steps of care in a simulated scenario related to the workshop topic.

This workshop series is sponsored by Chartwell Retirement Residences and funded in part by the Government of Canada.

Please note that this event is virtual and will be hosted via MS Teams. An email will be sent out to all registrants with the link to the workshop.

About Chartwell Retirement Residences:

Chartwell Retirement Residences is a leader in the Canadian retirement living industry. The largest owner and operator of seniors housing in the country they have over 200 retirement and long term care residences across Ontario, Quebec, Alberta and British Columbia. With a number of retirement residences in the Edmonton area, they are local experts dedicated to providing education about retirement options and the health care system to professional partners, seniors and their families. If you want to learn more about retirement living please join us, featuring Chartwell as our main sponsor at the upcoming workshops, or visit Chartwell.com