Living with Dementia

Penang Dementia Association in collaboration with Alzheimer’s Disease Foundation of Malaysia is organising a Family Caregiver Training Programme, ‘LIVING WITH DEMENTIA’

Date:  3 December 2016 (Saturday)
Time:  8:30 am – 5.00 pm
Place:  New Bob Centre, 6th Floor, Gottlieb Road, 10350 Penang

This training programme is designed for family caregivers who wish to learn more about dementia and develop caregiving skills and coping strategies. The program consists of 4 modules:

1. Understanding Dementia and Person Centred Care
2. Understanding the Behaviour of Persons With Dementia
3. Communicating with a Person With Dementia
4. Purposeful and Meaningful Engagement

For registration, please send the completed registration form with payment to the above address or by email.  Please register early to reserve a space.
For enquiry, please call Ms Gan 016-6745429, or email: pgdementia@gmailcom.

Closing date for registration: 30 Nov 2016

World Hospice and Palliative Care Day 2016

Living and Dying in Pain: It doesn't have to happen

World Hospice and Palliative Care Day (WHPCD) is a unified day of action to celebrate and support hospice and palliative care around the world. It takes place on the second Saturday of October every year. Voices for Hospices is a wave of concerts taking place on the same date every two years.

                                                          Source:  World Hospice and Palliative Care Alliance (WHPCA)

A 26-minute documentary film 

Life Asked Death: Palliative Care in Asia

[click on the link to watch the film on vimeo]

A story of a revolution in healthcare.

Produced by Moonshine Movies.

Commissioned by the Lien Collaborative for Palliative Care, 

Asia Pacific Hospice Palliative Care Network & Lien Foundation.

Narrated by Baroness Ilora Finlay.

Cancer Awareness Day

Organised by: 

Adventist Oncology Centre, Penang Adventist Hospital

Further information, please contact 04-222 7344 or email healtheducation@pah.com.my

Spicy Zumba Day

Saturday, 29 Oct 2016

7.30 am - 11.30 am

Taman Belia, Lebuh Acheh

Opposite Urban Spice Cafe

89 Lebuh Acheh, Georgetown, Penang

Organised by:  Urban Spice Cafe

Further information, please contact Ms Vynn Lew, 04-261 9986