Today Lori La Bey, founder of Alzheimer’s Speaks facilitates a conversation with the true experts, those living with a diagnosis of dementia. They are Dr. Jennifer Bute, Paulan Gordon, Craig Hanke and Truthful Loving Kindness. My Co-facilitator is Eilon Caspi PhD – Gerontologist & Assistant Research Professor at University of Connecticut. We openly discuss our thoughts on the new drug by Biogen called Aduhelm, which is the new controversial drug for Alzheimer’s disease.
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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
Lori La Bey, founder of Alzheimer’s Speaks created Dementia Chats so the world could hear directly from those living with dementia, since truth be told, they are the experts! Listen to this wonderful conversation with Laurie Scherrer and Paulan Gordon on their thoughts and insights as to why it’s important to learn to live with dementia and how they have done it themselves! Please feel free to share your thoughts with us. We love to hear from our audience.
Dementia Chats – Those Living with Dementia Talk Openly
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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
March 24th, 2015, Today we discuss loss. The types of loss experienced when living with dementia. How they handle dealing with loss as well as how others around them deal with it. There was also discussion of how those diagnosed with dementia are in need of volunteers to assist them and help bring the comfort into their lives. Our experts living with dementia from the top left to right are: Steve Ponath, (Lori La Bey, facilitator), Robert Bowles. The bottom row from left to Dena Dotson, Paulan Gordon and Harry Urban.
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This great webinar platform allows you to ask the experts living with dementia your questions and have wonderful conversations on how to improve life for those living with dementia or caring for someone diagnosed. These are live webinars, but recordings will be posted for your use.Many use these recordings for family meetings and staff training.
Here Are Our Experts:
Harry Urban
Michael Ellenbogen
Dena Dotson
Robert Bowles
Paulan Gordon
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