Speaking Topics

  • Building a Bridge Over Troubled Waters – Staying Connected to Your Loved One with Dementia
  • Understanding Dementia and Brain Change – a Caregiver’s Guide
  • “He’s Just Not the Man I Married!” – Understanding Dementia and Brain Change

(Dementia is more than just memory loss.  Changes in language, thinking, and personality are more difficult to understand.  Learn how brain change affects your loved one’s behavior, and what you can do to make life easier for both of you.)

  • Understanding Changes Everything! Improving Dementia Care for Everyone
  • Say This, Not That! – Learning How to Communicate with Dementia

(Dementia is more than just memory loss – it changes how a person thinks and communicates.  To stay connected, you have to change, too.  Understanding how brain change affects your loved one will help you learn what to say and more importantly, what not to say)

  • Caring for the Alzheimer’s Caregiver
  • Doing the Wrong Things for the Right Reasons – Maybe There’s a Better Way?
  • Could This Be Alzheimer’s? Recognizing Early Warning Signs of Memory Loss
  • FAQs about Dementia
  • Learning to Dance with Dementia – How Changing Your Approach Changes the Outcome
  • Living Next Door to Dementia (minimum 4 hours)

Whether you call it dementia, or Alzheimer’s, or memory loss, the result is the same:  it’s a disease that changes everything.  With our growing aging population, and without a cure anywhere on the horizon, we are called to learn all we can about a condition that will likely affect at least 50% of us.  Join us for this interactive program to explore the differences between normal and not normal aging, how to recognize common early signs of dementia, and what you can do to support families in your community who are already affected by this condition.

   

Targeted specifically to professional caregivers and staff in long-term care:

  • Less Talk, More Smiles – Adopting a Positive Approach to Dementia in Long-Term Care
  • What Part of “No!” Don’t You Understand?
  • Diamonds to Pearls – Using Teepa’s GEMS to Identify the Progression of Dementia