The Association for Professionals in Aging is excited to sponsor this fun and information-filled educational workshop in partnership with the Giving Voice Foundation.
Join us at Twin Lakes Senior Living Community for a full-day of speakers discussing how to incorporate creativity into caring for a loved one with dementia. With such a great line-up of instructors, this workshop will provide helpful tools for you to use. And if you need CEs, this full day workshop will provides 6 CEs.
This program is intended for social workers, nurses, activity directors, local musicians, movement instructors, and the general community!
Lunch and beverages will be included.
CEs for Ohio social workers and counselors. Please include your license number at registration.
Nurses and others can be issued a certificate that you can present to your board. Be sure to register for the CE-level ticket.
EVENT SCHEDULE
8:00 – 8:15 AM Registration & brief networking
8:15 – 8:30 AM Welcome
8:30 – 9:30 AM Understanding Dementia
Christian Gausvik, MD
An overview of the most common types of dementia and Alzheimer’s from a wide-angle view aimed to help provide a basic understanding in order to implement care and support strategies effectively.
9:30 – 9:40 AM Break
9:40 – 10:40 AM Music in Motion
Jude Jones, LPMT, MT-BC, M.Ed.
This presentation will discuss and demonstrate how to identify and use key parts of songs and other clever prose to help focus attention span, improve language, increase coordination skills, and foster social participation for folks who battle dementia. There will be a strong emphasis on the use of creativity and imagination to take singing, movement, and improvisation to a new level. This includes the effective use of call-and-response singing/vocal work, the value of linking movements with imagery, and the joy of engaging in improvisation.
10:40 – 10:45 AM Break
10:45 – 11:45 AM Movement Matters: Strategies and Exercise Recommendations to maximize functional participation for clients with Dementia
Angela Onyekanne, PT, DPT GCS, ACEEAA, FSOAE
Jeanie Bryant, OTR/L
This session will highlight specific upper body and lower body impairments that affect a client’s ability to perform functional tasks (i.e walking, getting up and down from a chair, reaching for and holding objects etc). We will demonstrate what exercises can be done to address it and the best approach to providing simple cues for clients with dementia.
11:45 – 12:15 PM Sound Therapy For Relaxation
Sonya Verma, MHSA, MBI
Immerse yourself in soothing sounds produced by instruments such as singing bowls, gongs, and chimes for an immersive sensory experience. Shown to promote deep relaxation and nervous system regulation, sound therapy uses sound, music, and special instruments played in therapeutic ways, combined with deep self-reflection techniques to improve health and well-being. The sounds can have an immediate soothing effect on both body and mind. For many people, the sounds enable them to enter into theta brain wave states-the state between waking and sleeping associated with deep relaxation and meditation. This session will focus on ease, relaxation and stress release.
12:15 – 1:15 PM LUNCH (provided)
1:15 – 2:15 PM Laughter Yoga
Sylvia Dwertman, Certified Laughter Yoga Instructor
Emily Elma, LISW
Laughter Yoga is an innovative health and wellness program that uses intentional laughter as a form of physical exercise to enhance health and wellbeing. Practically anyone at any age can laugh heartily and achieve the health benefits of laughter without relying on jokes, humor or comedy. The concept is based on scientific knowledge that shows whether you are laughing at something funny or you are having fun choosing to laugh, you will receive both physiological and psychological health benefits. It’s called Laughter Yoga because the laughter exercises are interspersed with deep yogic breathing and gentle stretches. No special exercise clothing or equipment is necessary and the only thing needed is the willingness to laugh. During a Laughter Yoga session, participants initiate laughter as exercise in a group setting, and through making eye contact and enacting a sense of playfulness, self-initiated intentional laughter that soon becomes genuine and contagious.
2:15 – 2:30 PM Break
2:30 – 3:30 PM Effective Engagement and Communication
Deana Barone, MRC, CRC, CCM, CDP, CADDCT
We are taught many things growing up yet effective communication skills are an often-overlooked lesson. Clear communication is a skill that requires ongoing practice to be productive, meaningful, and respectful. Communicating with individuals who have dementia introduces unique challenges that call for empathy, patience, and awareness. This presentation will add valuable communication tools to your “tool box” leading to meaningful engagement and relationship building.
3:30 – 3:45 PM Break
3:45 – 4:45 PM Music Therapy and Memory: How Music Impacts and Connects Us
Olivia Barnaclo, MT-BC, LPMT
This presentation will discuss the definition of music therapy, how music therapy can support people with dementia, and how music can facilitate engagement and connection. Music therapy is an established, evidence-based health profession that utilizes a variety of experiences including singing, playing instruments, song reminiscence, and movement to reach musical and nonmusical goals. This presentation will also include musical examples and exercises to utilize music within the context of your professional scope.
4:45 – 5:00 PM Farewell, Surveys, Certificates, Final Networking
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