Equipping Caregivers with the skills and support they need

I also cared for my amazing parents who both experienced dementia later in life. My lived experience of caregiving, along with my professional work, have helped me to deeply understand the needs of families living with dementia.

At the Dementia Caregiver Resilience Clinic, our team provides care to highly stressed care partners, focusing specifically on the skills they need to manage their emotional experiences, and to prevent or work through difficult interactions that can happen when trying to help their loved one. Care partners learn skills that support their own well-being in the context of caring for a loved one with an illness over which they have little control.

We take a very individualized approach to supporting care partners in our clinic, working to address the significant distress they are experiencing while empowering them to adopt a mindful approach, to take a step back, and see situations more clearly. They also learn about real ways to bring self-care to life. We offer individual counselling and lead innovative group programs that are specific to the needs of dementia caregivers.

Our team and all of the care partners we have helped in the past five years are deeply and sincerely grateful for your support of this clinic. Thank you!

THANKS TO DONORS LIKE YOU, THE DEMENTIA CAREGIVER RESILIENCE CLINIC CAN PROVIDE THE SKILLS, TRAINING AND COUNSELLING REQUIRED TO FACE THE COMPLEX CHALLENGES OF CAREGIVING WITH COMPASSION.

Dr. Dave Williscroft has been a Palliative Medicine physician at PHC for over eight years; he has seen first hand the impact music therapy can have for patients, especially when medicine cannot touch the existential, spiritual, and mental suffering of some patients at the end of life.