Rethinking the 'Person' in Person-Centered Dementia Care
March 11, 12:00 - 1:00pm
Organized by: Covenant Health Research Centre
Audience: General public Healthcare professionals Patients, residents, families Researchers
Webinar Brain health Health ethics Seniors' health
Learn about the philosophy of person-centered dementia care (PCC), the ways in which it informs the practice of care and how PCC is experienced by care recipients at two long-term care centres.
Timothy Epp is the Professor of Sociology at Redeemer University in Ancaster, Ontario, where he has served for 23 years. He received his PhD in Social Anthropology from York University (Toronto) in 1999, following which he completed a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Kenneth G. Murray Alzheimer Research and Education Program at the University of Waterloo.
His current research interests and publications are in the areas of disability, dementia and personhood; the social history of race relations in Anabaptist traditions; and spirituality within popular culture. He lives in Dundas Ontario, with his wife, daughter and two loveable but crazy dogs.
