Certified Dementia Care Provider
See the subtle signals. Defuse situations before they happen.
Dementia doesn’t wait for you to check your notes or call an expert. You need to be ready in the moment, and as a CDCP, you will be.
Live, expert-guided cases
Recognized certification
Immediately usable skills
Online, self-paced* lessons
*Self-paced means having the flexibility to go through the lessons at any hour of the day, to accommodate your individual schedule.
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Being a Certified Dementia Care Provider…
Makes you a better caregiver
What you learn in this course empowers you to be proactive and decisive. So, when the people you’re entrusted to look after need you to be there, you’ll know what to do.
- Confidence built on proven-knowledge
- Misunderstanding-free communication
- Insight into the “why” behind behaviours
Boosts your career
Earning your CDCP designation sets you up to be a leader in the field at a time when the need for dementia care expertise is at an all-time high — and only set to go higher!
- Stronger earning potential
- Greater employment opportunities
- More career choice and stability
Expands your connections
With your CDCP designation, you join a growing community of dementia care providers, researchers, and advocates who are collaboratively raising the standard of care in the field.
- A network of like-minded professionals
- Opportunities to learn from others
- Early awareness about new solutions
This program will show you:
- How to translate textbook theories into real life solutions
- What you can do to spot and prevent issues BEFORE they happen
- Communication techniques that completely change your client interactions
- A “why” approach that curbs behavioural problems at the source
- How to reflect on interactions and understand what clients really need
- The tools to holistically care for dementia at every stage
If you’ve ever felt like, “how was I supposed to know what to do?” while on the job, this course is for you.
It’s the missing link between what care looks like on paper and the way it works with real people.
See what you can expect
22 hours. 5 modules. 1 comprehensive program.
Wondering what you’ll learn? There’s too much for us to show here, but we’ve included a sneak peek of what you can expect from the course.
Delving Deeper into Dementia
- Teaches you to recognize and differentiate between dementia, delirium and Alzheimer’s Disease.
- Improves your theoretical and practical awareness around the two major categories of dementia: curable versus non-curable dementia.
- Dedicates time to solidifying your understanding of Alzheimer’s disease, which is the most common form of dementia.
Managing Behaviours
- Reviews the key concepts in Cracking the Dementia Code™ Fundamentals to reinforce your dementia care foundation.
- Helps you better understand the behaviour of your clients and the changes happening in their brains which cause those behaviours.
- Guides you, stage-by-stage, through the behavioural changes that happen as dementia progresses.
- Improves your professional adaptability by teaching you crucial techniques to de-escalate situations, manage crises, and preserve compassion.
Promoting person-centred care in ADLs
- Delves deeply into person-centered care and how it can transform the way you approach your responsibilities.
- Provides you with guidance on how to practically apply person-centered care while assisting clients in Activities of Daily Living (ADL).
- Teaches you how to use effective communication techniques during daily routines to build rapport and encourage trust and cooperation.
Holistic Approach in All Stages of Dementia
- Guides you on how to see people living with dementia as a whole, and how to use that incredibly powerful perspective to help your clients achieve complete well-being regardless of the stage or type of dementia.
- Reviews key principles and strategies that will allow you to meet the physical, mental, emotional, social and spiritual needs of your clients.
- Provides you with a flexible list of different types of activities to do with your clients to support their wellbeing.
Being an Advocate & Self Care
- Helps you tie together all the knowledge and skills you learned in the previous modules into a single, practical care system.
- Encourages and guides you on how to become an effective advocate not just for your clients, but for yourself as a caregiver.
- Teaches you how to avoid compassion fatigue and empower your client’s circle of care through education, inspiration, and even involvement.
- Equips you with essential tips and reminders for self-care so you can thrive in your career, not just survive.
BONUS: Cracking the Dementia Code™ – Fundamentals
$107 CAD FREE
Like the groundbreaking book it shares a name with, our included Fundamentals online course delivers practical tips and tools that even experienced dementia care providers will benefit from.
With that knowledge, you’ll be able to:
- Make correct, split-second decisions when a patient needs help and other staff don’t know what to do
- Lower the levels of stress and fatigue you experience while caring for patients
- Earn the trust of your patients, colleagues, and managers
- Make psychotropic medication a backup option instead of a go-to crutch
- Advance your career with coveted caregiving skills and a government-recognized CDCP™ designation
Canada’s need for dementia care is going to double in just a few years.
Becoming a Certified Dementia Care Provider puts you in a position to advance both the quality of care you provide and your career.
Organizations who recognize the CDCP™ program
Dementia Solutions is recognized by the Canadian Government as an Educational Institution
What does this mean? You will be able to claim the costs of the program in your next year’s income tax return. (Students will receive official tax receipts by the end of February for the amount they paid in the previous year.)
This continuing education session content is pre-approved by NCTRC
The National Council for Therapeutic Recreation Certification (NCTRC) is the premier credentialing organization for the profession of Therapeutic Recreation.
This means people who have their CTRS Designation can put 22 hours of CEU’s towards their renewal!
Some of the companies who have staff trained by us:
Meet Your Instructor
Karen Tyrell, CPCA, CDCP
- 27+ years of dementia care experience
- Co-developed Canada’s first true Dementia Village (opened Aug 2019)
- Women’s Collaborative Hub Exceptional Educator Award Finalist
- Specialist consultant for the Adult Cognitive Wellness Centre
- Certificate in Long Term Health Care Management from CHA Learning
- Therapeutic Recreation Professional since 1997
How much does the CDCP™ program cost?
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What you can expect
“Learning from this course has changed me. I am much more confident now.”
I am a caregiver working in a long-term senior care home. The theories were helpful and well-suited for my work with seniors. I have benefited from the teachings. It has helped improve the quality of both my work and life. This program also advanced my English learning as a second language. During and after completing the CDCP program, I consciously try to improve my spoken English in terms of pronunciation, intonation, and enunciation.
Caregiver
“Extremely informative and applicable to my practice.”
I am a Social Worker in Long Term Care, and found this program extremely informative, and applicable to my role. As a Social Worker, I hadn't received specific training regarding gerontology or dementia/Alzheimer's and this course added a significant amount of information and expertise that is tangible and applicable to my practice. I found the information relevant, and am happy to say I have added a few more tools to my toolkit!
Social Worker
“Hits on all of the issues presented to a caregiver”
I am so happy that I took this course. Thank you - the information is so well presented and hits on all of the issues presented to a caregiver! I look forward to utilizing the skills learned and already have been doing so - as I have a client with vascular dementia. I feel so much more confident in my time with her. I have already seen times when I utilize the "why" and put on my investigative hat - I can diffuse a situation before it really even begins.
End-of-Life Doula
“Felt & experienced my confidence with the residents”
I enjoyed my entire course for the CDCP™ program. I am so glad to enroll as a mental gift to myself. It is very knowledgeable & has a variety of topics. As a new graduate of PSW, I find it gave me so much improvement in myself as a person, too. I already felt & experienced my confidence with the residents...Thank you Dementia Care Academy for all the support. The online events are so helpful & give a shine to people who live with symptoms of Dementia.
Personal Support Worker
“Thanks evermore to all of the professionals in the world that are doing this very important work.”
Thanks for telling me that I have the ability to learn every day and to always be positive and to always ask "why". I also found it very helpful to be encouraged to reflect on past learning experiences so that I can improve and always seek to do the right thing in any given moment in time. Lastly, I found that the program taught me mostly to realize that I am not always going to be happy about the choices that my clients make. I have to reflect and accept the choices and move on. Ultimately, it is their life and not mine to live. My role is to support them in the best way I can. Thank you Dementia Solutions from the bottom of my heart.
Family Support Specialist
“Provides...details that every care aide should be aware of”
The CDCP™ Program is an informative, excellent course that every care provider should know about. It provides all the details that every care aide should be aware of. I strongly believe after this course completion, my confidence level has gone up and now it’s my turn to put them into practice. I’m so grateful to be a CDCP(Certified Dementia Care Provider)! Thank you Karen for your tremendous effort and hard work to establish this program. Hats off to you!
“I learned so many new things and things I never considered that make perfect sense”
I really enjoyed this program. I learned a lot of valuable info that I'm already putting into practice every day in my career. I highly recommend this to anyone in the field or families facing this diagnosis. Worth every cent!
“Very easy to follow and understand.”
I recommend all caregivers who work with clients that have dementia to take this course. You will receive so much insight that you might of not been aware of and I know you will be able to provide even better care now for your clients with everything you learned from taking this course.
See the difference
FAQ
Who is this course for?
Anyone who cares for people living with dementia will find value in this course:
- Health Care Aides (HCA)
- Personal Support Workers (PSW)
- Companions
- Nurses (LPN/RN)
- Recreation Therapists or Assistants
- Occupational Therapists (OT)
- Care Home Managers
- Frontline Health Workers
- Anyone who is, or wants to work with older adults!
What is a Certified Dementia Care Provider?
A Certified Dementia Care Provider is someone who has successfully completed the CDCP™ Dementia Designation Program and as a result has advanced their knowledge and practical skills in dementia care to steadily apply the principles of person-centered dementia care.
What does a Certified Dementia Care Provider do?
They provide hands-on dementia care support and teach others by using communication techniques like Therapeutic Reasoning™ and other creative non-psychotropic solutions. They also become part of the CDCP™ Community and receive ongoing support and encouragement to advocate for the rights of all those affected by dementia.
How long will the course take?
There are a total of 20 lessons for the CDCP™ program. Each lesson can be learned at your own pace, on your own schedule. For most people it takes around 22 hours to complete.
Why should I become a Certified Dementia Care Provider?
- Increase confidence.
- Stand out in your workplace
- Become a leader in dementia care
- Reduce risk of injury on the job
- Proudly display the designation letters CDCP™ next to your name
- Advance your career
- Join a community of like-minded professionals
- Traditional education lacks focus on practical skills and knowledge
- There are around 25,000 new cases of dementia diagnosed in Canada each year
- Most importantly, make a positive impact in the lives of those you care for
I'm an international student. Can I still apply for this course?
Absolutely! Anyone who has internet access can take our program. Feel free to contact us at [email protected]
Are you a home care company or care home manager?
Learn how we can support your team with a training grant for our dementia care training program.
Questions?
Request a phone or Zoom meeting to take a private tour at our Dementia Care Academy and learn more about the CDCP™ Dementia Designation Program.
Please contact us if you are interested in verifying if a person is a CDCP member in good standing.
We teach dementia care excellence
Unlock the secrets to compassionate dementia care with our accessible, flexible learning (on your own schedule) online program. It’ll change how you care for people living with dementia and give you direct guidance from peers and leaders in the dementia care field.
Nationwide Collaborators
What makes this course different?
You learn practical techniques from one of the dementia field’s top experts.
As you work through the course, your knowledge and confidence are going to flourish under the guidance of Karen Tyrell, founder of Dementia Solutions and the author of Cracking the Dementia Code – Creative Solutions to Cope with Changed Behaviours.
Through live monthly case studies and Q&A sessions, she’ll help you make sense of even the most challenging situations and teach you skills that you can start using right away.
I took this course because my grandfather has Alzheimer’s and I wanted to educate myself further on how to help support him while still maintaining his dignity. I found the CDCP course to be informative with a lot of helpful resources, and even when I was still only part way through, I was able to successfully implement some of the suggestions here and provide guidance to other family members.
Thanks so much for all the work you put into the program!
~Amber Newsome, CDCP
