Aging
Dementia Friends
Presenters: Beth Soltzberg, LICSW, MBA; Lead, Dementia Friends Massachusetts, Jewish Family & Children’s Service
Kathy Service, RN, MS, FNP-BC, CDDN; DDS consultant and Dementia Friends Massachusetts Champion
Presenters: Beth Soltzberg, LICSW, MBA; Lead, Dementia Friends Massachusetts, Jewish Family & Children’s Service
Kathy Service, RN, MS, FNP-BC, CDDN; DDS consultant and Dementia Friends Massachusetts Champion
- Dementia Friends is a global public awareness program that helps every member of a community learn five key messages about how dementia affects people, and how each person can make a difference through respect, patience, and communication skills. This session has been tailored to include a focus on the connections between visual impairment, I/DD and dementia. Presented by Beth Soltzberg, lead for Dementia Friends in Massachusetts, and Kathy Service, I/DD and dementia specialist.
- CEUS: 1.0 ACVREP; Certificate of Attendance by request
- Length: 69 minutes
- Resources:
- Dementia Friends
- Jewish Family and Children's Services: Directory of Memory Cafes in Massachusetts
- National Task Group on Intellectual Disabilities and Dementia Practices
- Reducing Dementia Risk: A Summary of the Science and Public Health Impact, Alzheimer’s Association (PDF)
- Dementia, Alzheimer’s and Eyesight: Symptoms and how to help from Hebrew SeniorLife
- A Form of Dementia that Affects Vision: Posterior Cortical Atrophy from BrightFocus
- Tips for Caregivers on Reducing Visual Perception Difficulties in Individuals with Alzheimer’s by VisionAware
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