Dementia Stages & Stage-connected Care | September 28th 2023
Type: Past Presentation
Audience: Clinical Community
Program: Dementia Caregiver Support ECHO
Keywords: #caregiver training #dementia care #dementia stages #staging dementia
Productive caregiving responses are optimized when the complexity of care matches the affected person’s ability to understand and perform. Are there stages of dementia? How many stages? How do you define each stage of dementia? Why is it important to know each stage? In this presentation, Dr. Neil Henderson presents answers and discussion to these questions and several others about the staging of dementia and how to best ensure that each affected person feels secure, protected, and loved.
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Neil Henderson, PhD
Neil Henderson, PhD, is Professor Emeritus of Medical Anthropology at the University of Minnesota Medical School, Duluth campus, and former Executive Director of the Memory Keepers Medical Discovery Team. He is Oklahoma Choctaw.
Neil’s research areas focus on aging issues of American Indian people. Specifically, his work is on biological and cultural influences regarding recognition and treatment of dementia and diabetes, dementia caregiving, cultural constructions of disease, and community health interventions and education in the context of cultural diversity. Dr. Henderson was honored by the award of the Leadership in Prevention for Native Americans by the Loma Linda University School of Public Health and the Award of Achievement by the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, College of Public Health, as well as being named a Presidential Professor by the University of Oklahoma,
College of Public Health.
Neil is the former Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology and past-President of the Association for Anthropology and Gerontology. He has authored many articles in the scientific press and is a contributor to the Alzheimer’s Association and CDC’s new Healthy Brain Initiative’s Road Map for Indian Country (2019), principal author of The Savvy Caregiver for Indian Country (2013), co-author of the text, Social and Behavioral Foundations of Public Health (2001) and is senior editor of The Culture of Long-Term Care (1995).
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Date added: September 29, 2023