Join us for the Mountain Area Caregiver Conference!

The Caregiver Education Conference focuses on providing family and professional caregivers with new, innovative information and caregiving techniques. The interactive sessions, motivating speakers, and innovative ideas focus on the many facets of Alzheimer’s disease, caregiving, research, communication, life-enhancing activities and person-centered care.

Schedule of Events

8:00- 8:45 Registration and Visit Sponsors 

8:45 - 9:00 Welcome

9:00 - 10:00 Pathways to a World without Alzheimer’s Disease:
Treatment and Prevention Strategies 2014 
Presenter:  Dr. Kathleen Welsh-Bohmer, Duke University

10:00 - 11:00 Session 1(Three Options) Choose one

• Grief and Loss; Presenter: Partnership of Pastoral Counseling
• Show Me The Money: Paying for Your Health Care Needs: Presenter: Amy Smialowicz Fowler, BA WNC Geriatric Care Management
• Creative Methods to Reducing Stress and Engaging Activity; Presenter:  Side by Side Singing

11:00 - 11:15 Break-Visit Sponsors

11:15 - 12:15 Session 2 (Three Options) Choose One

• Grief and Loss; Presenter: Partnership of Pastoral Counseling
• Show Me The Money: Paying for Your Health Care Needs: Presenter: Amy Smialowicz Fowler, BA WNC Geriatric Care Management
• Creative Methods to Reducing Stress and Engaging Activity; Presenter:  Side by Side Singing

12:15 - 1:15 Lunch; Meet Me Where I Am
Presenter:  Mary Ann Drummond Carillon Assisted Living

1:15-1:45 Advocacy and Action in NC
Presenter:  Scott Herrick, 
Alzheimer’s Association, Western Carolina Chapter 

Registration Fees:  

$10 Family Caregivers
$25 Professionals / CE hours

Continuing Education: Continuing education hours (total of 4.5 credit hours) will be available for social workers, CNA’s, adult care home staff and nursing home administrators. No partial credits will be given.

Thank you to our sponsors!

Gold Sponsors:

Stone Creek Health and Rehabilitation
WNC Baptist Home 

Silver Sponsors:

Care Partners Foundation
Emeritus at Heritage Lodge
Givens Estates

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