Dementia Specialty Team

Helps Islanders living with dementia and their care partners by providing individualized care planning, guidance, education, and support. Includes:

• Mobile Behavioural Support Outreach. This includes complex behavioural support, assessments and care planning for clients in the community, acute care and long-term care.
• A Behavioural Support Plan created with the individual, family, care partner(s) and clinical team, which can be incorporated into the existing care plan.
• Virtual behavioural consultations between the DST team and other health care providers.
• Transitional support for complex discharge planning.
• Other referral requests that will be considered on a case-by-case basis.
• Recommendations and implementation of programs aimed at reducing the risk for people living with dementia.
• Education to health care providers.