Throughout the years, the Alzheimer’s Association has united experts worldwide topresent the latest information in dementia care practices to professionals, familymembers and persons living with the disease in Connecticut and surrounding states. Join us as we reflect on past accomplishments, integrate the present and envision a future of a world without Alzheimer’s disease. KEYNOTE:   Hope in Caring for Deeply Forgetful People: Enduring Selfhood and Being Open to Surprises   Over the past twenty years, caregivers, professionals, and those affected by Alzheimer’s disease have hoped that medical science might provide a treatment that can prevent, stabilize or even cure this progressive and intractable disease; this treatment has proven highly elusive. Yet there have been major breakthroughs in forms of care that awaken expressions of continuing self-identity even in the most deeply forgetful loved ones, and these give us meaning and hope as caregivers.     Presented by: Stephen G. Post, PhD Presenter Bio Director, Center for Medical Humanities, Compassionate Care, and Bioethics Professor of Family, Population and Preventive Medicine at Stony Brook University   Articles   ‘Is Grandma Still There?’ A Pastoral and Ethical Reflection on the Soul and Continuing Self-identity in Deeply Forgetful People   Hope in caring for the deeply forgetful: Enduring selfhood and being open to surprises

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2017 Dementia Education Conference Planning Committee

Blanche Agostinelli, MSN - Alzheimer’s Association Connecticut Chapter Volunteer

Pamela K. Atwood, MA, CDP, CLL - Hebrew HealthCare, Inc.

Stacy A. Batty-Chavis, MA - Alzheimer’s Association Connecticut Chapter

Betty J. Brennan, RN, BSN - Alzheimer’s Association Connecticut Chapter Volunteer

Eileen Cleary, RN, CRRN, MA, NHA - Alzheimer’s Association Connecticut Chapter Volunteer

Sandra Cook, AS - Alzheimer’s Association Connecticut Chapter Volunteer

Carolyn A. DeRocco, BA - Alzheimer’s Association Connecticut Chapter

Christine Dileone, MSN, RN - University of Connecticut School of Nursing

Sharman H. French, LCSW, ACHP-SW - Masonicare Home Health and Hospice

Cynthia R. Grant, BA - Connecticut Department on Aging

Michael R. Hetsko, MSW - Gardner Heights

Nancy V. Leonard, MSW, LCSW, MBA - New England Home Care

Casey McGannon, MA, CDP - Sage Solutions, LLC

Renee Michaud, BS - Artis Senior Living

Catherine Sarni, MS - Alzheimer’s Association Connecticut Chapter Volunteer

Elena Schjavland, PhD(c), APRN (Lead Nurse Planner) - Keys2Memory

Ginny Steller, MSW - Alzheimer’s Association Connecticut Chapter Volunteer

Cecelia Sullivan, MS Ed., HTP - Care Partner / Family Advocate

Daniel E. Wollman, MD, PhD (Activity Medical Director) - Quinnipiac University

Linda Worden, RN, MPH, CCM, CDP - Worden Eldercare Consulting, LLC