Education in dementia care is too often hierarchical and divisive. It is hierarchical as experts teach laypeople or persons with less educational status. And it is divisive as professionals and families are educated in different settings, at different times and with different curriculums. Unfortunately, persons with dementia hardly receive any education at all.

The content for our educational offerings arises out of collaborative learning, a partnership of different voices and different points of view. In collaborative learning, we de-emphasize the role of expert knowledge in favor of the type of wisdom that comes from lived experience. Everyone is a teacher and a learner – persons with dementia, their family members, community service providers, students, researchers and scholars. By joining together in shared educational experiences, we engage a subject from all perspectives. New ideas and insights develop out of collaborative conversations of the lived experience of dementia, making them more directly applicable to the everyday life of dementia care.

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