Event details
3:00 – 3:50pm | Friday 28 March
This webinar will focus on coping with mood and behaviour changes in older adults, addressing unmet needs with empathy and insight. We will explore the challenges and solutions for understanding and managing these changes, emphasizing the importance of caregiver resilience and staff well-being.
Key Focus Areas:
- Identifying triggers and glimmers.
- Utilising non-pharmacological approaches to enhance mood and psychological wellbeing
- Communication strategies and creating a supportive, dementia-friendly environment.
Presenter introduction: Orquidea Tamayo Mortera (She/Her) – MNZM, MProfPrac, Cert DRT, DipDemCare
Orquidea is a NZ Registered Therapeutic Recreation Specialist. She is the current president for the New Zealand Society of Diversional and Recreational Therapists Inc., and the National Therapeutic Recreation Lead for Summerset Group Holdings Ltd.
She is a national and international speaker, and a consultant in the use of models of care and support, therapeutic recreation, person centre and person lead approaches, human rights, meaningful engagement, purposeful lifestyle, complementary therapies, and non-pharmacological approaches. She has extensive experience in healthy ageing, retirement villages, aged care (dementia, hospital, rest home), community, mental health, and the disability sectors. Due to her impactful work, she has received many accolades in NZ and internationally.
She is passionate about using recreation in a meaningful and therapeutic way to enrich, optimize and enhance people’s health and wellbeing, as well as using therapeutic recreation and all that it encompasses as a prevention and rehabilitation tool. She strongly believes in supporting individual’s self-determination through meaningful experiences and person led programmes and activities that facilitate purpose, belonging and quality of life.
Her professional interest includes interprofessional, multidisciplinary, cross-disciplinary, interdisciplinary and collaboration, ongoing education and research, technology and innovation in therapeutic recreation, recreation as a human right, leadership.
Personal interest includes walking, swimming, networking, family time, traveling, learning, movies, spanish music, cooking, ridding a bike, hugging, listen to someone’s story, social media.
- Top Strengths: Activator, Connectedness, Developer, Ideation and Positivity
- Top Qualities: Authentic, Empathetic, Compassionate, Flexible, and Adaptable
- Top Values: Trustworthiness, Resilience, Nurtures Growth, Creates feelings of togetherness and Strong Ethics and Standards
