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Continue your life-long learning by joining the Seniors’ College Association of Nova Scotia, a volunteer-based registered non-profit organization dedicated to providing affordable non-credit academic courses to seniors (age 50+). Courses are for your learning enjoyment, without tests or assignments. Full membership entitles you to attend any number of the courses offered per year whether they are delivered in-person or online. Online membership entitles you to attend any number of courses that are delivered online. It also allows you to participate in further developing this dynamic learning organization. In addition to online courses, in-person courses are offered in the Halifax Regional Municipality, Liverpool, Mahone Bay, and Truro.
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Free Public Presentation
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February 18, 2026 (Wednesday)
1:30 – 3:30 pm
Trinity Anglican Church, 196 Church Street, Liverpool
1:30 – 3:30 pm
Trinity Anglican Church, 196 Church Street, Liverpool
CARING WITH CONFIDENCE - A Gentle Guide for Dementia Care at Home
Families choose to care for a loved one with dementia for many personal, emotional, and practical reasons. Often, it is a combination of love, duty, culture, and circumstance. For many of us, caregiving feels like a continuation of the love that has always existed. Caring for a family member with dementia is meaningful but also one of the most demanding roles a person can take on. The challenges are not just practical—they are emotional, physical, and often deeply personal. This emotional load builds over time. Caregivers often experience grief for the person “as they used to be” and guilt for feeling tired, losing patience, or considering outside help. The format of the Public Presentation will focus on listening to feedback from SCANS members at the Information Session on what is important to them. By approaching these challenges with knowledge and preparation, we can start to lay the groundwork for positive and gentle care. Caregiving, though difficult and challenging, can also bring purpose, connection, intimacy and moments of joy and tenderness.
Families choose to care for a loved one with dementia for many personal, emotional, and practical reasons. Often, it is a combination of love, duty, culture, and circumstance. For many of us, caregiving feels like a continuation of the love that has always existed. Caring for a family member with dementia is meaningful but also one of the most demanding roles a person can take on. The challenges are not just practical—they are emotional, physical, and often deeply personal. This emotional load builds over time. Caregivers often experience grief for the person “as they used to be” and guilt for feeling tired, losing patience, or considering outside help. The format of the Public Presentation will focus on listening to feedback from SCANS members at the Information Session on what is important to them. By approaching these challenges with knowledge and preparation, we can start to lay the groundwork for positive and gentle care. Caregiving, though difficult and challenging, can also bring purpose, connection, intimacy and moments of joy and tenderness.
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BARBARA ROSS is a retired Registered Nurse, Midwife and Public Health Nurse with a Post Graduate Degree in Community Health and a master’s degree in business administration (she has always enjoyed being a learner). Currently she works as a Justice of the Peace and runs a smalls BnB from her home.
Her extensive career in community healthcare offered her the opportunity to travel around the world and learn from international colleagues from diverse cultures, religions and care settings. However, what was consistent no matter where she worked, was the devotion of families committed to taking care of a loved one diagnosed with the deterioration of brain function caused by dementia. Over her 44 years of practice, Barbara has cared for a wide group of patients living with dementia – Korsakoff Syndrome, AIDS Dementia Complex and more chronic diseases including Lewy Bodies Disease, Huntington’s, Parkinsons, Vascular Dementia and Alzheimer’s. |
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Land Acknowledgement
We acknowledge that we are in Mi’kma’ki, the ancestral and unceded territory of the Mi’kmaq People. This territory is protected by the Treaties of Peace and Friendship that did not surrender Indigenous land, resources or sovereignty but instead established rules for an ongoing relationship between nations. Further, we recognize and commit to addressing the need for continual engagement and learning in the spirit of Peace and Friendship and in the work of Truth and Reconciliation. Msit No’kmaq. (All My Relations}
Land Acknowledgement
We acknowledge that we are in Mi’kma’ki, the ancestral and unceded territory of the Mi’kmaq People. This territory is protected by the Treaties of Peace and Friendship that did not surrender Indigenous land, resources or sovereignty but instead established rules for an ongoing relationship between nations. Further, we recognize and commit to addressing the need for continual engagement and learning in the spirit of Peace and Friendship and in the work of Truth and Reconciliation. Msit No’kmaq. (All My Relations}