Aim:
To provide participants with the knowledge, skills and attitudes necessary to plan, facilitate and evaluate Advocacy.

Objectives:
Participants will gain insights into:

• What Advocacy is and is not.
• Setting up and running Residents Councils/Meetings.
• Adapting an Advocacy service responsive to the needs of the residents.
• Consent and capacity in Dementia Care (new legislation).
• Therapeutic benefits of activities for the Older Adult with Dementia.