Alzheimer's Speaks

25 Years of Supporting Families and Caregivers

Our host, Lori La Bey talks with a wonderful panel about the Normandale Center for Healing & Wholeness who give us insights from various perspectives.  We are lucky to have with us Jennifer Monroe, Executive Director, Becky Zinn-Caulfield, Caregiver Specialist, Leaf who is 93-years-old and who was recently diagnosed with early-stage Alzheimer's, along with Kennard Lehmann was diagnosed in 2010 with early-stage Alzheimer's disease and his wife and care partner Mary Margaret Lehmann.

Kennard and Mary Margaret Lehmann

Kennard Lehmann was diagnosed in 2010 with early-stage Alzheimer's disease.  Since then, he and his wife, Mary Margaret, have immersed themselves in the world of research, resources, and advocacy.  They have participated in support groups and have spoken in front of the Senate Finance Committee regarding problems faced by patients living with chronic disease illnesses.

Ken does weekly woodworking projects which are then donated to the Alzheimer's Association for auctions. 

Leaf 

Leaf is a 93-year-old devoted Christian and longtime member of Normandale Lutheran Church. She was recently diagnosed with early-stage Alzheimer's.

Becky Zinn-Caulfield

Becky Zinn-Caulfield has over 20 years of experience in clinical social work, including case management, palliative care, and hospice, and is passionate about supporting older adults and their families. Becky has a master’s degree in social work from the University of Denver and is trained in Caregiver coaching and consultation.

Jennifer Monroe

Jennifer has over 25 years of experience in prior leadership roles within the non-profit and public health sectors, including chief executive roles at philanthropic, ambulatory health care, and supportive service organizations. Jennifer is a trained yoga instructor and certified in multiple evidence-based modalities.

Learn:

1. What organizations were part of the original coalition supporting the Normandale Center?
2. When did the Normandale Center for Healing and Wholeness become a nonprofit organization?
3. What does the Normandale Center for Healing and Wholeness offer families dealing with dementia?
4. How those living with dementia and their care partners have been helped by Normandale Center.
5. How can the Normandale Center offer its services for free?
6. What programs do they offer?
   1. Educational
   2. Family meetings
   3. Respite Care
   4. Support Groups
   5. Caregiver Assessments
   6. Training volunteers to help support their programs

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Contact information For Normandale Center

Website   https://www.normandalecenter.org

Email   [email protected]

Phone    952-929-1698

LinkedIn   www.linkedin.com/company/normandale-center

FaceBook   www.facebook.com/NormandaleCenter

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Building Love & Joy into Caregiving with LEGO BRICKS! 

Lori La Bey talks with Loretta Woodward Veney who is an inspirational speaker and certified LEGO® Serious Play® facilitator who offers a wealth of information, encouragement, and humor to her audiences. Loretta is the author of Being My Mom’s Mom, Refreshment for the Caregiver’s Spirit, and Colors Flowing from My Mind.

In 2006, after her beloved mother Doris was diagnosed with dementia, Loretta began learning everything she could about the disease becoming a fierce advocate for her Mom in the process. Loretta and her Mom have been featured in the Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The NY Times, and a PBS special. Loretta's engagement with her Mom using LEGO bricks and her facilitation of LEGO Serious Play workshops for those with dementia and their caregivers resulted in Loretta and her Mom being chosen as one of Robin Roberts Thriver Thursday recipients, which previewed on Good Morning America in November 2021.

In September 2023, Loretta received a Maude Award, given to individuals and companies using innovative methods for engaging with those with dementia. Though her mom passed in January of 2022,  the legacy they created continues through Loretta’s work throughout the United States.

Learn:

1. Living a life learned. Loretta shares how something her mother taught her when she was five years old has come full circle, helping Loretta and her mom find joy in the dementia journey; which has now expanded into a global movement.
2. Consciously focusing on finding or creating joy daily.
3. How to release anxiety, showcase creativity, and expand our ability to communicate with others to truly hear and see others on a deeper level.
4. How it invites people to interact in group settings and builds pride, purpose, and inclusion.
5. Going back to the basics, leveraging creativity, and an attitude all creations are perfect and tell an important story.
6. What does a Certified Lego Serious Play facilitator do?
7. How can you get certified or find an LSP facilitator in your area?

Watch the Video Interview Below

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Contact Loretta Woodward Veney

Founder of Loretta Veney Inspires - Inspirational Speaker, Author, and Certified LEGO® Serious Play® Facilitator

Website: https://lorettaveney.com

Email: [email protected]

Social Media Handles

LinkedIn  @  linkedin.com/in/loretta-veney

Facebook @ Loretta Woodward Veney

Instagram @ Loretta Woodward Veney

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For more resources check out the Dementia Map Global Resource Directory at https://www.dementiamap.com/

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Discovering A Cash Resource Often Overlooked When Chronic Illness Hits

Lori La Bey talks with Joyce Bidwell who assists seniors in selling their life Insurance policy for a lump sum cash settlement to a large pool of policy buyers and investors, assuring the highest offers in the marketplace.

Learn:

1. How HIV influenced death benefits for Life Insurance Policies.
2. What a life settlement is and how it works.
3. What a viatical insurance policy is.
4. Who a fiduciary agent represents.
5. Who does a life settlement benefit and how?
6. How funds from a life settlement be spent.

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Contact Joyce Bidwell

Website   www.bidwelllifesettlements.com

Email  Joyce @bidwelllifesettlement.com

LinkedIn   www.linkedin.com/in/joyce-bidwell-a336bb119/

Dementia Map  @Bidwell Life Settlements

Phone  505-702-3699

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Open Mic on Alzheimer's Speaks discusses the need for more support for people diagnosed with a form of dementia when they are hospitalized. Plus how there are now wonderful publications supporting those living with dementia who still enjoy reading. Join us as we talk with Micheal Ellenbogen who is living with dementia and Nikki Jardin the Co-founder of Mirador Magazine.

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Article - The Failing Hospital System–When it Comes to Cognitive Issues

https://www.mathewsopenaccess.com/journals/neurology/abstract/the-failing-hospital-system-i-when-it-comes-to-cognitive-issues-i 

The Purple Angel Wristband Program for Hospitals

https://dfmassachusetts.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2019/06/Dementia-Spotlight-Foundation-Alzheimers-Dementia-Hospital-Wristband-Program.pdf

Adaptive Reading Publications Help Those Living with Dementia Continue to Enjoy Reading.

Reach out to Mirador Magazine

https://www.MiradorMagazine.com/

[email protected]

Nana’s Books

https://nanasbookseries.com/

Reminisce Book Series

https://www.kirkhousepublishers.com/reminisce

Resense

https://www.resenseregister.com/

Alzheimer's Speaks offers Open Mic sessions monthly, to shift dementia care from crisis to comfort around the world one episode at a time.  We love raising all voices and delivering sound news, not just sound bites!  So, we invite you to call in and tell us how you are improving dementia care. We just ask all parties to hold to have a respectful conversation.

Share your dementia or caregiving story. Tell us about your service, product, or tool you have that can help others dealing with dementia.  Have you written a book, penned, or produced a song or film?  If so, we want to hear from you.  Maybe you are working on a research project or have a trial you are promoting. 

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Thanacare: Advanced Care Planning Registry for All

Lori La Bey talks with Dr. Michael Madison has been a practicing interventional neuroradiologist in the Twin Cities of Minnesota for the last 25 years. His career and personal life heavily influence his passion for improving care at the end of life. Dr Madison is the Co-Founder, President, and Chief Executive Officer of Thanacare.

Learn:

1. About End-of-Life decisions and the paperwork needed to ensure your wishes are upheld.
2. Define quality of life for you.
3. Decrease family guilt over end-of-life decision-making.
4. About really family stories about end-of-life decisions.
5. Who is in charge of decisions?
6. How to figure out how you want to live the end of your life.
7. Where do you want to die?
8. How is your end of life going to be paid for?
9. Make sure the right people have access to your wishes.
10. How can a QR Code help?

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Contact Thanacare

Website    https://www.thanacare.com/  

Linkedin      https://www.linkedin.com/company/thanacareregistry/

Instagram     https://www.instagram.com/thanacare/

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Doing Dementia Differently, A Non-Traditional Approach to Memory Care

Lori La Bey talks with Zach Parlier the Administrator at English Rose, where they have been providing Memory Care, Assisted Living, and In-Home Care in the Minneapolis metro area in Minnesota for 25+ years. Zach has been a dementia educator for the past 7 years and is eager to spread a larger message about how caring for people with dementia can be simpler when we allow for an individualized approach and experience. Lori has had the privilege to observe their care model and it was truly magical.

Learn:

1. The difference between Memory Care and Assistive Living.
2. About the different types of care settings.
3. What is “staff ratio” and how does it affect care services?
4. How love and kindness play a role in care.
5. Why longevity in staff matters.
6. How to understand and manage behavior communications by leveraging multi-sensory language.
7. The importance of being responsible for your own caring style.
8. Identify the difference between being right and being successful.
9. How to apply a resident's “Normal” to create meaningful engagement.
10. What does well-being mean to you and others?
11. How to deal with Sundowning.

A Couple of Resources Mentioned

Book - Being Mortal by Atul Gawande

The Validation Training Institute - https://vfvalidation.org/

The Contented Dementia Specal Program https://contenteddementiatrust.org/ in England or learn from Cyndy Luzinski founder of Dementia Together here in the United States https://dementiatogether.org/

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Contact English Rose

Phone 952.983.0412

Email  [email protected]

Website   https://englishrosesuites.com/

Instagram @EnglishRoseSuites

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Bringing Out the Best in Care Community Staff Members

Lori La Bey talks with Tryn Rose Seley, an award-winning author, first original AlzAuthors member, and provider of Mindful Art sessions for people living with dementia and their care partners.

Learn:

1. To look at how you view people who care.
2. To evaluate the philosophies of the corporation, the administration, the departments, and the individual staff.
3. How to create a safe space to thrive
4. To frame care as a practice, not a perfection
5. To evaluate your approach to care
6. To understand the impact of micromanaging, cross-training, team building, toxic people and environments, and Covid
7. To lead by example and what that really looks like.
8. To look for value and purpose in employees, and don’t forget to appreciate their work and acknowledge their efforts.
9. To create a collaborative care community

Watch the Video Interview Below

https://youtu.be/hjiqTSOkqLA 

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Contact Tryn Rose Seley

Webistie   https://caregiverheart.com/

Email     [email protected]

Facebook     https://www.facebook.com/caregiverheart

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Ginger Shares Share Her Life Living With Dementia

Lori La Bey talks with Ginger Speech an 86-year-old woman who had to retire as a speech-language pathologist due to encroaching dementia symptoms ten years ago. At one point, Ginger ended up in hospice, but recovered and came home. Her mission now is to advocate for research and cure for neurodegenerative disease through her memoir, interviews, and participation in social media.

Learn:

1. The symptoms Ginger experienced.
2. How she handled forced retirement due to her symptoms.
3. About dealing with multiple diagnoses.
4. How antipsychotics can be dangerous with some types of dementia.
5. More about hospice.
6. Living in the world of dementia.
7. Why support groups are helpful to those living with dementia.
8. Sun shining vs. Sun downing.
9. The importance of lifestyle changes.
10. How to access Ginger's memoir.

Watch the Video Interview Below

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Contact Ginger Smith

[email protected]

(650) 585-3233

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Witness Music Become Magical

Lori La Bey talks with David Schofman, Co-Founder & CEO of Coro Health, which is a leading authority in the intersection of music, neuroscience, and healthcare. Under his visionary leadership, Coro Health has gained national attention for its clinical-backed interventions that have been proven to reduce symptoms such as agitation and depression in seniors by up to 54%. 

Dave is a seasoned presenter and speaker focusing on educational talks centered on the transformative power of music in healthcare, particularly its neuroscientific impact and its role as a non-invasive tool in care plans. 

Learn:

1. How a personal experience inspired the launch of Coro Health.
2. Who uses Coro Health and why?
3. About Coro Health’s programs like: Music First, Faith First, Sing- a- longs, and Care Radio plus the Bundle Engagement Program.
4. What a Music prescription is.
5. About the clinical trial Coro Health is doing
6. How our emotions and engagement levels change as we listen to music.
7. Watch this support video Why the brain likes music https://youtu.be/KWTRQhF70k0?si=pilvA4AN9duvTrm6

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Contact Coro Health, LLC

Website   https://corohealth.com/

Facebook   @CoroHealthTx   https://www.facebook.com/corohealthatx/

Instagram   @CoroHealth

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X – Twitter  @CoroHealth

https://twitter.com/corohealth

YouTube   @CoroHealth

https://www.youtube.com/@CoroHealth

LinkedIn    @CoroHealth

https://www.linkedin.com/company/coro-health/

Phone   512-710-9861

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Lori La Bey talks with Darlene Fuchs, writer and author behind “GET IN

THE BOAT”: A Memoir of Love, Loss, And The Dance with Dementia.

Drawing from the emotional unfiltered journals of her father, Richard

Sonnichsen, Darlene takes readers on a deeply personal journey through  

the challenges of caregiving, offering an intimate view of a husband  

navigating the complexities of caring for his wife.

Learn:

1. How to address lifestyle changes
2. Creating a safe environment for those you care for
3. How to communicate with family and friends
4. How to engage family and friends
5. Why reading body language is important
6. Men verse women's perspective on caring
7. How and why to journal
8. Tips for new caregivers
9. The importance of self-care

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Contact Darlene Fuchs

Visit their Website 

WEBSITE: GetInTheBoatBook.com

FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100092701665994

LINKEDIN: https://www.linkedin.com/in/darlene-fuchs-46aa7447/

INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/getintheboatbook/

AMAZON: http://amazon.com/dp/B0CG7CC2VN

TIKTOK: https://www.tiktok.com/@darlenefuchs1

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