Caregiver Training

Culturally Specific Dementia Care

Dementia does not discriminate - it affects people of all cultures and backgrounds. People’s backgrounds and beliefs inform their sense of self, how they understand, feel about, and respond to other people and their environment - including diagnoses, health and care organizations and their staff. It is important to know how to best provide care to meet one's needs while recognizing their cultural values and beliefs. Join us for an in-depth training on cultural specific care and how you can meet the person where they are with their needs.

Presenter

Sharon Napper, Certified Dementia Practitioner and Professional Trainer, Alzheimer’s Association-Greater Richmond Chapter
Sharon Napper has been a resident of Virginia since 1999. She has served her community as a special education teacher assistant, pediatric nurse, cardiac acute care nurse, orthopedic step-down nurse, and a medical surgery clinical nurse for 16 years in the central Virginia area. She has seen the need for more education and outreach in the community dealing with our great struggles with food deserts, high blood pressure, diabetes, and Alzheimer’s and as a whole healthcare inequality in the commonwealth of Virginia. She is a Certified Dementia Practitioner and Professional Trainer for the state with the Greater Richmond Chapter Alzheimer’s Association.