The Art & Science of Alzheimer's
Alzheimer's Association Research Symposium
presented by
Dr. Michael & Karen Fried Community Education Fund
This two-part symposium is designed for clinicians, researchers, students,
aging-services providers, caregivers, and family members. CEUs details pending*.
Attend one day or both.
Thursday, November 10 and Friday, November 11, 2016
Yellowstone Art Museum
401 N 27th St., Billings, MT 59101
Special pricing available for students and family caregivers.
Inquiries to montana@alz.org or 406.252.3053
in grateful partnership with
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Featured Presenters:
James Hendrix, Ph.D.
Director of Global Science Initiatives, Medical & Scientific Relations
Alzheimer's Association, National Office
Holly Cukier, Ph.D.
Research Assistant Professor, University of Miami,
Neurology, Member, John P. Hussman Institute for Human Genomics
Brianne Ellsworth
Memories in the Making Coordinator
Alzheimer’s Orange County
Karen Fried
Senior Art Connections®
Yellowstone Art Museum
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Thursday, November 10
Hope without Hype
8am to 9am Registration
9am to 5pm Program
(with lunch on your own 11:30am to 1pm)
5pm to 6:30pm
Reception at the Yellowstone Art Museum
How biomarkers, as in the cardiovascular field, can detect when treatments are working. Detecting the complications of aging microhemorrhages, microstrokes, neurovascular changes that biomarkers miss. Differentiating between various dementias to personalize early, helpful, lifestyle changes. We have new insights into why so many as ripe as any for Alzheimer’s from our present paradigm live out their lives with no sign of it.
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Friday, November 11
Enhancing Interactions through Creative Expression
8am to 9am Registration
9am to 5pm Program
(with lunch on your own 11:30am to 1pm)
The Memories in the Making® training (led by Brianne Ellsworth) is a collaborative effort with
Senior Art Connections® (led by Karen Fried). Family members who attend will have tools for more meaningful visits with their loved ones. Artists and teachers will see new ways to help themselves and others to express their emotions through art. Dementia care professionals will walk away with a meaningful program they can readily deliver to their residents.
*This activity has been submitted to Montana Nurses Association for approval to award contact hours. Montana Nurses Association is accredited as an approver of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. For more information regarding contact hours, please call Betty Mullette, Billings Clinic at 406-238-2252 for more information.
*This activity has been submitted to the Montana Board of Social Work, Professional Counselors, Marriage & Family Therapists for approval to award contact hours.
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