What you'll learn

  • Handling day to day care of your loved one

  • Coping with the trials of dementia

  • Planning for medical needs

  • Dealing with legal and financial issues

  • Arranging for additional care

Course description

This comprehensive, interactive Harvard Medical School online course gives you the tools, strategies, and reassuring support you need to provide compassionate, encouraging, confident care to a loved one — and, just as importantly, to take care of yourself. Overflowing with interactive worksheets, checklists, and practical hints and tips, this unique audiovisual course is a helpful roadmap to help you navigate the concerns you face today...and the unpredictable issues you may face down the road.

Instructors

Clinical Chief of Gerontology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center; Assistant professor in medicine at Harvard Medical School.

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