Friday – June 17th, 2022 – 2pm EST, 1pm CST, 12pm MST, 11am PST & 7pm London GMT, 9pm South Africa SAST, and on the 18th at 6am in Australia AEDT
Today we will be talking with Hayley Antipas a Registered Music Therapist from Australia and the Director of Attuned Health. She has a passion for working in aged care, with people with neurological diseases & disability, in community mental health settings and is currently researching the effect of innovative music-therapy informed technology on the residential aged care workforce.
Join us as we shift dementia care from crisis to comfort around the world one episode at a time. We love raising all voices and delivering sounds news, not just sound bites!
I want to echo the thanks and appreciation of my colleagues… Your presentations were movingly authentic, fully engaging and wonderfully informative. Thank you for all that you are doing, and all that you’ve done for us!
Carla Koehl, Director of Community Relations – Artis Senior Living of Lexington
“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
Tuesday April 5th – 2pm EST, 1pm CST, 12pm MST, 11am PST & 7pm London GMT, 9pm South Africa SAST, and on the 6th at 6am in Australia AEDT
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Our Host, Lori La Bey will be talking with Lisa Peterson is a Nationally Board Certified and Oregon Licensed Music Therapist with 30 years experience working with people with dementia. She has a passion for reminding and empowering all people, especially caregivers, to access the power of music for their well-being.
Dementia and the Arts is an Educational Panel where all levels of artists and all types are welcome. Our goal is to elevate panelists work and ability to create beauty in many forms. They will share examples of various types of art they participate in, how, and why they started, what they have learned, and what they personally get out of making art. Panelists, do not have to attend all sessions.
Anyone living with dementia interested in participating, please reach out to Lori La Bey via email, or Private message her on FaceBook
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As you will see from the sample video above, conversations are comfortable, casual, and fascinating. We have so much to learn from one another. All recordings will be prerecorded and published to Alzheimer’s Speaks YouTube channel with a specific playlist channel for easy access. Each episode will be pushed out on Alzheimer’s Speaks social media channels as well.
Dementia Chats is a series of video conversations where we talk with the true experts on dementia, those living with a diagnosis. Lori La Bey, founder of Alzheimer’s Speaks facilitates a conversation and is amazed by every conversation what she learns about life with dementia. She encourages everyone not only to watch these videos, but to include those living with dementia in conversations and to listen closely to their insights. They know dementia better than anyone.
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I want to echo the thanks and appreciation of my colleagues… Your presentations were movingly authentic, fully engaging and wonderfully informative. Thank you for all that you are doing, and all that you’ve done for us!
Carla Koehl, Director of Community Relations – Artis Senior Living of Lexington
“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
Thursday, December 6th, Lori La Bey host of Alzheimer’s Speaks Radio, will talk with Kaylee Tilton, a Music Therapist and Joe Kaufman, an intern with Aegis Living while completing his BA in music therapy. Both work at Aegis Living. Join us and learn how and why people react to music. You will find out how music therapy is different from our everyday use and enjoyment of music, along with their personal experiences that pulled them to become music therapists. Kaylee and Joe will explain how the use music therapy to improve lives and will give us some real life examples of its effect on people of all ages and stages of life.
“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
Today we are lucky to have Becky Watson, a Board Certified Music Therapist and is the Founder and Owner, Music for Wellness. She is former Navy Captain who served our country for over 25 years. Becky has always been passionate about supporting the health and wellness through music. After her Navy retirement, she completed multiple training programs including Teepa Snow’s Positive Approach to Care. Today we will have a fascinating conversation about the gift of music and how to create joy through rhythm. Here is s FREE PDF
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Becky Watson, MBA, MT-BC
Owner, Music for Wellness, LLC Veteran Owned, Family Operated Enriching the Mind, Body and Spirit with MUSIC! (757) 563-3488
This is one of the best videos which really explains what music therapy does and how it works! Very powerful and well done. Thank you to Julie Anderson of Boom Baby Boomer and Judy Berry of Lakeview Ranch for making this video; along with Music Therapists Tami Briggs of Musical Reflections and Dayna Koehn of Noteworthy Health.
I am so excited to share with you another ditty of my Mother in her end stages of Alzheimer’s and the possibilities of connections. I was blessed to have come into my life a woman by the name of Melissa Hirokawa, the owner of Living Spirit Therapy and a board-certified music therapist. Melissa took time to show me her wears as a professional, and even with my Mother in her end stages of Alzheimer’s, she was able to bring Mom out of her shell and bring my her Joy. I hope you enjoy this video as much as I do. There are several other sample videos on Alzheimer’s Speaks On YoutTube. Feel free to check them out and don’t forget to subscribe so you know when new videos are posted.
Living Spirit Therapy Services, LLC provides music therapy services specializing in work with the elderly; hospice and palliative care; and those with physical, cognitive, and/or medical issues such as dementia, cancers, stroke, Parkinsons, MS, ALS, Huntington’,s fibromyalgia, and chronic pain. Music therapists can complement and enhance the work of other allied health professions such as physical and occupational therapists and can often see positive results when other modalities have not been successful.
Melissa Hirokawa, the owner and board-certified music therapist with LSTS, has a Master of Music in Music therapy; has received advanced training in hospice music therapy, Neurologic Music Therapy, work with the elderly, and music and imagery; is a Fellow in the Academy of Neurologic Music Therapists; has experience providing music therapy services with a wide variety of clientele; has provided eight years of direct care for people with special needs; and has presented locally and nationally on music therapy
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