This show has been postponed due to an emergency. I will let you know when we are able to reschedule. So sorry for the inconvenience.
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Join Alzheimer’s Speaks Radio where true talk radio thrives covering sound information, not sound bites. Host, Lori La Bey will be talking with Beth Propp, RN and AGEucate Training Institute Certified Master Trainer. Today we will have a very important conversation about the importance of touch for those living with dementia and those that care for them.
Join the conversation by calling into (323) 870-4602
Contact Information for Compassionate Touch & AGE-u-cate
Contact Person: Mary Petersen, Director of Client Engagement
“Feedback from the conference planning committee and our leadership team was extremely positive. Many attendees commented that she was one of the best speakers they had heard.”
Pat Sylvia, Director of Education & Member Development LeadingAge WA
Join Lori La Bey, host of Alzheimer’s Speaks Radio for a very interesting conversation with three women on a mission to improve dementia care by supporting those that care for individuals living with a diagnosis. Through improv, care partners learn to reframe and refocus how to care. Listen in and learn and feel free to reach to them for more details on their clinical research and program.
Rev. Dr. Jade Angelica is the founder and director of Healing Moments for Alzheimer’s. She cared for her own mother who died from Alzheimer’s disease in 2011. She designs and leads workshops, services, and trainings for Healing Moments. Jade wrote the book Where Two Worlds Touch: A Spiritual Journey Through Alzheimer’s Disease.
Kelsey Spalding Wilson is a doctoral candidate in Clinical Psychology at the University of Iowa. She is now completing a clinical neuropsychology internship at the St. Louis VA, working with Veteran’s with neurological disorders.
Edmarie Guzman-Velez moved to the US to complete her doctoral degree in Clinical Psychology at the University of Iowa. She is now a postdoctoral fellow at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School studying the preclinical stage of Alzheimer’s disease.
“Feedback from the conference planning committee and our leadership team was extremely positive. Many attendees commented that she was one of the best speakers they had heard.”
Pat Sylvia, Director of Education & Member Development LeadingAge Washington
Thursday, June 28th, 2018 – Lori La Bey host of Alzheimer’s Speaks Radio talks with Tommaso Commarano, Programming Director & Events Manager and Jessica Boonstra, Resident Services Coordinator both part of the Abiitan team at the Terraces. Their discussion will focus on the Abiitan difference in the Terraces Memory Care along with how they attract and keep quality staff. In addition, Ruth Colby who is a wife of a former Memory Care resident.will join us.
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