Alzheimer's Speaks

Learn about Visiting-Ours and how they can help you connect with your loved ones with video conferencing.  Our guest today isTomSweeney, Executive Director at Visiting Ours Inc.

 Visiting-Ours non-profit enables families to video-chat with their elderly loved ones, whether they live independently or in an assisted living or nursing home.

Elderly participants do not need computers, Internet access or any technical knowledge. They simply visit with family on our equipment while the aide waits outside.

Contact Information:  

Website:www.visiting-ours.com

Phone612-387-5392

Email: [email protected]

Skype:Visiting-Ours

We will be talking with Lynn Buckley of Certified in Gerontology & Dementia Care Caring Connection Adult Day Health Coordinator Redwood Area Hospital:
Overview of adult day services Eligibility  Payment options  Benefits for caregivers What to do if care recipient refuses to attend What to ask/look for when selecting an adult day program
 
Contact information:  763.464.2698 [email protected]  www.madsa.org

Here is a link to the questionnaire/caregiver resources    http://www.madsa.org/resources-selecting_provider.php

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We will be talking with Lynn Buckley of Certified in Gerontology & Dementia Care Caring Connection Adult Day Health Coordinator Redwood Area Hospital:

Overview of adult day services Eligibility  Payment options  Benefits for caregivers What to do if care recipient refuses to attend What to ask/look for when selecting an adult day program

 

Contact information:  763.464.2698 [email protected]  www.madsa.org

Here is a link to the questionnaire/caregiver resources    http://www.madsa.org/resources-selecting_provider.php

Another family member touched by Alzheimer's disease and making a difference!  Join us in a fascinating discussion.
Tyler Jury, a senior at Western Kentucky University, is a native of Elizabethtown, KY.  He is a soon-to-be graduate of WKU with a double major in Chemistry and Biology. Tyler's passion for Alzheimer's comes from his experience with his grandfather's diagnosis in 2005 and eventual death in 2009. Tyler founded Fijis Across America- A Cross Country Bike Ride to Raise Money and Awareness for Alzheimer's Research- in 2009 to honor and commemorate his grandfather's life as well as to raise awareness about this horrific disease. Six riders, led by Jury, rode over 3,200 miles on their bicycles through nine states during the summer of 2010 and through their efforts were able to raise over $56,000 towards the cause. This year, a group of men in Tyler's fraternity at WKU have decided to take up the ride again to continue the fight against Alzheimer's. Their group is known as Bike4Alz, and can be found on Facebook and Twitter under "Bike4Alz", or online at www.bike4alz.org.

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Another family member touched by Alzheimer's disease and making a difference!  Join us in a fascinating discussion.

Tyler Jury, a senior at Western Kentucky University, is a native of Elizabethtown, KY.  He is a soon-to-be graduate of WKU with a double major in Chemistry and Biology. Tyler's passion for Alzheimer's comes from his experience with his grandfather's diagnosis in 2005 and eventual death in 2009. Tyler founded Fijis Across America- A Cross Country Bike Ride to Raise Money and Awareness for Alzheimer's Research- in 2009 to honor and commemorate his grandfather's life as well as to raise awareness about this horrific disease. Six riders, led by Jury, rode over 3,200 miles on their bicycles through nine states during the summer of 2010 and through their efforts were able to raise over $56,000 towards the cause. This year, a group of men in Tyler's fraternity at WKU have decided to take up the ride again to continue the fight against Alzheimer's. Their group is known as Bike4Alz, and can be found on Facebook and Twitter under "Bike4Alz", or online at www.bike4alz.org.

The song "Still A Child" tells the story behind dementia.  The struggles and guilt of having to place a parent in a care facility.  
I have been amazed at the number of songs being written about the journey of Alzheimer's disease dementia by those who care.  Today we will talk with Bakhus Saba, a son who felt the need to document his ride on the roller coaster of Alzheimer's disease. and musicians John and Michele Law how helped him.  John performs "Still A Child."
This  music video can be viewed on Youtube at   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuY2_8DWqtA
To purchase the song, please click the link: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/johnlaw2
You can reach John and Michele Law and Bakhus Saba through The Laws Website:
www.TheLaws.ca

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The song "Still A Child" tells the story behind dementia.  The struggles and guilt of having to place a parent in a care facility.  

I have been amazed at the number of songs being written about the journey of Alzheimer's disease dementia by those who care.  Today we will talk with Bakhus Saba, a son who felt the need to document his ride on the roller coaster of Alzheimer's disease. and musicians John and Michele Law how helped him.  John performs "Still A Child."

This  music video can be viewed on Youtube at   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuY2_8DWqtA

To purchase the song, please click the link: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/johnlaw2

You can reach John and Michele Law and Bakhus Saba through The Laws Website:

www.TheLaws.ca

Cathie Borrie has degrees in health & law, but nothing prepared her for the seven years she spent caring for her mother, who had Alzheimer’s and Parkinson's.  Along this heartbreaking and unexpectedly fascinating journey she discovered that recording conversations with her mother, writing a memoir, and learning to ballroom dance were ways to tell both her and her mother's story.
Excerpts from her lyrical memoir, The Long Hello-The Other Side of Alzheimer’s, have been shortlisted three times in the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Literary Awards.  Cathie presents her mother’s message of hope and inspiration all over the world and is adapting the work for stage and screen and for performance with music, dance, film, and voice.
Cathie can be reached via her website at
www.cathieborrie.com

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Cathie Borrie has degrees in health & law, but nothing prepared her for the seven years she spent caring for her mother, who had Alzheimer’s and Parkinson's.  Along this heartbreaking and unexpectedly fascinating journey she discovered that recording conversations with her mother, writing a memoir, and learning to ballroom dance were ways to tell both her and her mother's story.

Excerpts from her lyrical memoir, The Long Hello-The Other Side of Alzheimer’s, have been shortlisted three times in the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Literary Awards.  Cathie presents her mother’s message of hope and inspiration all over the world and is adapting the work for stage and screen and for performance with music, dance, film, and voice.

Cathie can be reached via her website at

www.cathieborrie.com

Naomi Feil the Founder of  the Validation Program shares and celebrates her 30 year journey shifting our dementia care culture. 
Naomi Feil, M.S.W., A.C.S.W., is the developer of Validation. She was born in Munich in 1932, and grew up in the Montefiore Home for the Aged in Cleveland Ohio, where her father was the administrator and her mother, the head of the Social Service Department. After graduating with a Masters degree in Social Work from Columbia University in New York, she began working with the elderly. Between 1963 and 1980 Mrs. Feil developed Validation as a response to her dissatisfaction with traditional methods of working with the severely disoriented old-old people who were her clients. In 1982 she published her first book, Validation: The Feil Method, which was revised in 1992. Her second book, The Validation Breakthrough, was published in 1993, and updated and revised in 2002. Feil and her husband have made many films and videos about aging and Validation. Feil is the Executive Director of the Validation Training Institute and a popular speaker in North America and Europe. Since 1989 she has toured Europe 3 times a year offering workshops in Validation to participants in Germany, the Netherlands, Scandinavia, France, Belgium, Italy, Great Britain, and Austria. Her books have been translated into French, Dutch, German, Italian, Finnish, Danish, Swedish, Spanish and Japanese.
 
Information available:
www.vfvalidation.org
www.voavalidation.org

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