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Connecting with Your Loved One with Early-Stage Dementia

Code: SE42019

Dates: October 10-24, 2024

Meets: 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM

Sessions: 3

Location: ONLINE

Course Fee: $65.00

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Feeling frustrated when talking to your loved one with early-stage dementia? Wishing you could find a way to speak to the person and not their disease? Join us to learn effective skills and strategies to enable positive communication and more meaningful contact with your loved one. Includes time for questions and sharing, short assignments and informative resources.
Fee: $65.00
You could save $12.00 on this course by becoming a member of MLSN Membership

ONLINE

Victoria Hart

Vicky’s journey towards working with people with cognitive loss began when her father was diagnosed with Progressive Supranuclear Palsy, a type of fronto-temporal dementia. A professional opera singer and voice teacher with a Doctorate in Music, Vicky used a variety of skills and modalities to connect with her father and provide meaningful engagement with him throughout the years of his illness. She found that despite his disease process she was able to help her father access memories, language abilities, and emotional responses that on the surface appeared to have been lost. This powerful experience with her father and her subsequent volunteer work with people with dementia led Vicky to make a career change. Vicky is now a Certified Therapeutic Recreation Specialist (CTRS) and Certified Dementia Practitioner (CDP) who specializes in working with seniors with mild cognitive impairment (MCI), the early stages of Alzheimer's, and other forms of memory loss. Vicky has worked at the Main Line Adult Day Center and Waverly Heights Life Plan Community. She is also the Founder and Director of A Gathering of Minds LLC, an online program providing culture, conversation & community for people with early stage memory loss. Visit her website: agatheringofminds.com.

info@agatheringofminds.com