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New in 2013: "Living Your Best with Early Stage Alzheimer's" to Begin January 25
New series combines elements of Living with Alzheimer's and Support Groups
Alzheimer's Association Northeastern New York Chapter has initiated a new Early Stage Engagement program for those newly diagnosed with Alzheimer's or dementia and their care partners. Living Your Best with Early Stage Alzheimer's is a 12-session series that combines programming from the Alzheimer's Association's Living with Alzheimer's curriculum with support group activities.
The Living with Alzheimer's programs for both diagnosed individuals and their caregivers provide information and resources on:
- developing a care team
- legal and financial planning
- coping strategies
- care and treatment options
- communicating and connecting, and
- maximizing independence.
Support groups provide an opportunity for participants to talk freely and confidentially about shared experiences and provide each other with empathy, compassion and support. Living Your Best with Early Stage Alzheimer's series will also provide a place to discuss the mutual experience of putting into practice the strategies and methods discussed in the Living with Alzheimer's education sessions.
Living Your Best with Early Stage Alzheimer's will meet every other week. At each session, the whole group will spend some time together, and then split into groups of diagnosed individuals and care partners. The first week each group will begin the first session of their respective Living with Alzheimer's program. In the following session, two weeks later, each group will have an opportunity to share and discuss their experience putting what they learned into practice and provide support for the others in their group. Thereafter, the bi-weekly sessions will alternate between educational programming and supportive discussions.
Our first Living Your Best with Early Stage Alzheimer's series will begin on January 25 and conclude on June 28th. All sessions with begin at 9:30 am and will be held at the Chapter office at 4 Pine West Plaza, Suite 405 in Albany. Due to the programs interactive nature, Living Your Best with Early Stage Alzheimer's enrollment is limited and there is a brief screening process to ensure participants are able to fully participate. To learn more and to enroll, email Karen Britt at Karen.Britt@alz.org or call her at 518.867.4999 x303.
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Legal and Financial Planning for Alzheimer's Disease Two-Part Series Scheduled in Amsterdam
 Legal and Financial Planning for Alzheimer's Disease is an interactive two-part program where participants learn about important legal and financial issues to consider, how to put plans in place, and how to access legal and financial resources in their area. Saint Mary's Hospital and Salmon and Salmon, LLP are hosting this Alzheimer's Association program on January 10 and 17 at 6 pm in the St. Mary's Hospital Board Room at 427 Guy Park Avenue in Amsterdam. Program presenters will be Alzheimer's Association Northeastern New York Chapter Program Manager and Support Group Liaison Karen Britt and attorney Del B. Salmon. The program is free, but registration is required. To register, email Tonya Garmley, or call her at 518.867.4999 x200. |
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Education Calendar Filling Up Fast
Be sure to check regularly to keep up on new programming in your area.
Our program managers have been busy planning and scheduling educational programs for 2013 throughout the 17-county region we serve. We're adding new programming nearly every day.
Schenectady Public Library will host a series of caregiver education programs every second Friday of the month at 10 am from January through June. That series is sponsored by Schenectady County and New York Connect.
Schenectady YWCA is hosting a fun, new "Press Play" series at their facility for five consecutive Wednesday beginning January 30. Called "Press Play," the series will begin at 10 am with an Alzheimer's caregiver educational program and be followed by YWCA Silver Sneakers exercise session.
Also coming up on Tuesday, January 8 at 10 am, we'll offer Know the Ten Signs: Early Detection Matters at St. Matthew's Episcopal Church in Latham.
To ensure that you are aware of all our programs in your area, visit our online Educational Program Calendar regularly. You can find information on all our programs and a link to our calendar on our website. These programs are free, but you must register in advance. Register with Tonya by email or by calling her at 518.867.4999 x200.
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Alzheimer's Association Northeastern New York Chapter provides education, support programs, care consultations and referrals for people with the disease and their caregivers in a 17-county region encompassing New York's Capital-Saratoga area and spanning from Columbia and Greene counties to Canada and from Fulton and Montgomery counties to Vermont. The chapter also works with the national association to raise funds to support these programs and research into treatment, prevention and a cure. Our helpline is available round the clock at 1-800-272-3900. Find us on the Web at www.alz.org/northeasternny.
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