This insightful workshop, led by Gillian Hamilton, Medical Director at HOV, and Karen E. Stewart, Dementia Educator at HOV, is designed to help us all understand the many challenges that people living with dementia face every day. Learn about tools and resources to provide the best possible care for loved ones living with dementia to keep them home for as long as possible. The session includes an interactive “Dementia Moments” exercise: an eight-minute experience that presses participants to perform some daily living tasks as if they were living with Alzheimer’s or another dementia. While wearing gloves, goggles, and headphones blaring background noise, people will try to button a shirt, count coins, and follow other simple instructions. This exercise simulates the emotional experience of someone with dementia trying to perform normally while living in a world of distorted perception and diminished cognition. If you’d like to be involved in this exercise, please RSVP to events2@dementiacampus.org.
This is the second of a series of three classes focused on helping you and your family prepare for the important health decisions we inevitably face as we care for ourselves and others. All our speakers are experts from Hospice of the Valley (HOV). Friends and family are welcome to attend!
The other 2 sessions in this series are:
January 19: “Understanding Hospice & Palliative Care”: Lin Sue Flood, Director of Community Engagement
February 16: “Advance Healthcare Directives”: Cheryl Thomas, Hospice of the Valley
- Date(s): Sunday, Jan 26, noon - 1:15pm
- Facilitated by: Gillian Hamilton, Medical Director, and Karen E. Stewart, Dementia Educator, from Hospice of the Valley
- Location: Johnson Room or Zoom Meeting ID: 884 1465 3886 | Passcode: UUCP4027
- Registration: None
For more information, contact afd@phoenixuu.org .