Person-centered care
Seeing the individual beyond a diagnosis and aligning support with identity, abilities, values, and preferences.
Our priorities
Confidence, skill, and dignity in practice
Professional Training
Developing practical training that helps professionals deliver person-centered, evidence-informed, and culturally responsive dementia care.
In development
IDCC is building this area thoughtfully with qualified partners and people whose lives are affected by dementia.
Our approach
Purposeful work, shaped by evidence and lived experience.
Professionals across health care, home care, social services, emergency response, and community settings encounter dementia in very different ways. Training is most useful when it connects evidence to the decisions people make in real situations.
IDCC plans to develop modular learning with clear objectives, realistic examples, and opportunities to practice. Programs will be reviewed by qualified subject-matter experts and shaped by the perspectives of people living with dementia and care partners.
What we will focus on
Four commitments guiding this priority.
Each focus area will be developed with clear objectives, appropriate expertise, and meaningful community input.
Communication
Practical approaches to listening, responding, reducing distress, and preserving connection.
Family partnership
Working respectfully with care partners while centering the rights and voice of the person receiving care.
Ethical practice
Applying dignity, consent, privacy, safety, and cultural humility to everyday decisions.
Programs we are shaping
Building the foundation before the launch.
These initiatives are planned concepts, not yet active services. Their design, timing, and scope will depend on expert review, partnerships, community input, and funding.
Foundations learning pathway
A future multi-module program covering essential dementia-care knowledge and skills.
Role-specific microlearning
Short lessons adapted to the situations different workforces encounter.
Live workshops
Facilitated learning using discussion, case examples, and practical exercises.
Train-the-trainer program
A future model to help qualified partners deliver consistent learning in their communities.
Who this work is for
Designed around people, not programs.
Clinical teamsHome-care professionalsLong-term care staffSocial-service teamsFirst respondersCommunity-facing workforces
Build this with us
Partnership makes the work stronger.
We are seeking academic, clinical, workforce, and care-delivery partners to help define competencies, review curricula, test training, and evaluate whether learning changes practice.
Trusted starting points
Explore authoritative resources.
While IDCC develops its own reviewed materials, these public resources offer credible information and pathways for learning.
IDCC does not provide medical diagnosis or treatment. Information on this site is educational and does not replace advice from a qualified professional.
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