Education
& Training

Join us for community education, specifically created for people living with dementia and their care partners. We hold in-person classes in addition to our online webinars! If you need help registering for a class, give us a call at 858.492.4400 to get started.

Are you a professional caregiver, or interested in training for your organization? To learn about upcoming professional education opportunities, click here. 

  • Manteniendo saludable su cerebro

    Escondido Public Library 239 S Kalmia St, Escondido, CA, United States

    Aprenda sobre los cambios en el estilo de vida y las estrategias que todos pueden usar para mantener la salud de su cerebro. View More

  • Communication Skills

    San Diego Oasis at Rancho Bernardo 17170 Bernardo Center Dr, San Diego, United States

    Develop new skills and strategies for connecting and communicating more effectively with a person experiencing memory loss, and responding when interactions are challenging. View More

  • Skills Clinic: Medications

    Valencia Park / Malcolm X Library 5148 Market St, San Diego, CA, United States

    Learn strategies for helping a person with dementia manage daily medications safely. View More

  • Driving and Memory Loss

    Oceanside Public Library - Civic Center Community Rooms 330 N Coast Hwy, Oceanside, CA, United States

    Learn about physical and cognitive changes, how to evaluate driver safety, local transportation resources, and tips for having difficult conversations about driving. View View More

  • Dementia 101

    San Diego Oasis at La Mesa 5500 Grossmont Center Dr, Ste 325, La Mesa, United States

    An introduction to mild cognitive impairment, Alzheimer’s disease, and other dementias. Learn information about risk factors, common symptoms, and resources for help. View View More

Webinar Library

Watch recordings of our online education anytime, anywhere, at your convenience. If you have questions about what you learn from these videos, please reach out and speak to our Dementia Care Coaches by calling 858.492.4400 or filling out our follow-up form.

Getting Started

Dementia 101
A comprehensive overview about memory loss, Mild Cognitive Impairment, Alzheimer’s, and other dementias. Learn about risk factors, common symptoms, and resources for help. Click here to watch >>

Maintaining Your Brain Health
Learn about the latest research on lifestyle changes and strategies that everyone can use to maintain their brain health. Click here to watch >>

How to Talk About Memory Loss
Learn how to plan for successful, lower-stress family discussions about difficult topics like changes in memory, driving, and living alone. Click here to watch >>

Living with Memory Loss
This class is designed for people living with early-stage memory loss and their care partners. Learn strategies for adapting to daily challenges, enhancing health and well-being, and planning for the future. Click here to watch >>

Planning

Care Options: Living at Home
Is it time for more help? Learn about in-home care options, and community-based resources such as adult day care, care management, and more. Click here to watch >>

Care Options: Residential Placement
Whether you’re looking at placement options now or planning ahead, learn about the different types of residential settings (including assisted living, memory care, and skilled nursing facilities), what they cost, and how to choose what’s best for your situation. Click here to watch >>

Legal & Financial Basics
Learn from local estate planning and elder law experts about getting key legal documents in place and how to plan for the costs of future care.  Click here to watch >>

Safety at Home
Learn important home safety tips to keep people living with memory loss safe and well at home – especially while social distancing. This class will focus on ways to reduce the risk of wandering and how to respond if wandering occurs, in addition to preventing falls, household injuries, medication errors, and more. Click here to watch >>

Driving & Memory Loss
Learn how physical and cognitive changes affect a driver’s safety, how to evaluate driving skills, local transportation resources, and tips for having difficult conversations about driving. Click here to watch >>

Caregiving

*These webinars are designed specifically for dementia care partners.*

Communication Skills
Develop new skills and strategies for connecting and communicating with a person experiencing memory loss, and responding when interactions are challenging. Click here to watch >>

Coping with Personality & Behavior Changes
Learn why people with dementia experience behavior and personality changes, what those changes mean, and how to respond. This webinar was presented in partnership with ElderHelp of San Diego. Click here to watch >>

Managing Resistance
If you’re struggling with someone who refuses help, join us to explore what causes resistance. You’ll also develop new caregiving strategies to strengthen relationships, build trust, and preserve dignity. Click here to watch >>

Skills Clinic: Bathing & Grooming
Our Skills Clinics give care partners the same hands-on training as professional caregivers. This workshop gives caregivers hands-on training on how to assist someone living with dementia with bathing, teeth brushing, and other needs. Click here to watch >>

Skills Clinic: Balance & Fall Prevention
Our Skills Clinics give care partners the same hands-on training as professional caregivers. This session will focus on strategies for helping a person with dementia maintain strength and balance, and reduce the risk of falls. Click here to watch >>

Skills Clinic: Meals & Eating
Our Skills Clinics give care partners the same hands-on training as professional caregivers. This session will focus on strategies for meal planning and assisting people living with dementia with eating and drinking safely. Click here to watch >>

Skills Clinic: Medications
Our Skills Clinics give families the same hands-on training as professional caregivers. In this session, learn strategies for helping a person with dementia manage daily medications safely. Click here to watch >>

Long-Distance Caregiving
Caring for someone living with dementia from afar presents its own unique challenges. Join us to discuss ways to stay in touch, keep informed, and be a helpful and supportive care partner. Click here to watch >>

Care in the Late Stage
Learn what to expect in the late stage of dementia, and explore new ways to communicate and provide care as needs are changing. Click here to watch >>

Special Events

Date With A Cure (2026)
Learn about the latest breakthroughs in dementia research – directly from local scientists working to find a cure – in our annual interactive Q&A forum. Click here to watch >>

Professional Education Webinars
See the following recordings on our professional education page >

  • Dementia, Hospice and Palliative Care: Understanding Options
  • Understanding Estate Planning in 2026: Creating a Lasting Legacy
  • Dementia and Supplements: Risks and Benefits
  • Dementia and Developmental Disabilities: Relationships, Risks and Responses
  • Dementia, Wandering, and Search and Rescue
  • Too Many Medications: How To Talk To Your Physician About Polypharmacy
  • & more

En español

Conversando sobre la pérdida de memoria
¿Por qué es difícil hablar de este tema? Aprende a prepararte y hacer un plan. Haga clic aquí para ver >>

Manejando cambios en la comunicación y el comportamiento
Aprenda los síntomas más comunes que afectan el comportamiento, la personalidad y la razón detrás de los cambios. Haga clic aquí para ver >>

Manteniendo saludable su cerebro
Aprenda sobre los cambios en el estilo de vida y las estrategias que todos pueden usar para mantener la salud de su cerebro. Haga clic aquí para ver >>

Consejos sencillos para la seguridad en el hogar
Aprenda estrategias para crear y mantener un hogar más seguro para alguien que vive con demencia. Haga clic aquí para ver >>

Telenovela: Recuerdos Perdidos
Alzheimer’s Los Angeles es el creador y productor de la telenovela Recuerdos Perdidos/Lost Memories. Una familia de East LA supera el estigma y el conflicto familiar para elevarse contra la enfermedad de Alzheimer. Haga clic aquí para ver >>

Videos

Memory Loss 101 (Start here!)
Learn more about the different kinds of memory loss and dementia, including Alzheimer’s disease.

Adjusting to Life with Dementia
Learn how to adapt to daily challenges, enhance well-being and plan for the future after a dementia diagnosis.

Communication Skills & Dementia
Learn how to connect and communicate more effectively with a person experiencing memory loss or dementia.

Coping with Personality & Behavior Changes
Learn why dementia can lead to behavior and personality changes, what those changes mean, and how to respond.

Dementia Symptoms
Learn about common symptoms of dementia, and how they differ from normal memory loss that comes with aging.

Safety & Wandering
Learn important home safety tips to reduce the risk of wandering, falls, household injuries, and more.