2024 PROGRAM
Time
8:30 am
9:00 am
9:15 am
What’s Happening
Check-in, Breakfast and Exhibitor Showcase
Welcome
Opening Keynote
Dementia is Stressful
Dr. Jennifer Pauldurai, Inova Neurosciences
10:15 am
10:30 am
11:30 am
Break and Visit Exhibitors
Breakout Sessions*
Lunch & Visit Exhibitors
Sponsored by SYNERGY HomeCare and Loudoun County Area Agency on Aging
12:45 pm
KEYNOTE
Changing Resistance to Care to Participation in Care: Teepa Snow’s Positive Approach to Care
Melanie Bunn
1:45 pm
2:00 pm
3:00 pm
3:15 pm
Break & Visit Exhibitors
Breakout Sessions*
Break
Closing Keynote
Weathering the Storm: Finding Rainbows During the Caregiving Journey
4:00 pm
Adjourn
* Choose your breakout sessions at online registration
- Financial/Legal Panel Discussion: Navigating Dementia Care
- Improving Your Hands-On Skills for Giving Care: A Teepa Snow Positive Approach
- Simple, Delicious and Nutritious
- Misconceptions of End-of-Life Care: Hospice vs. Palliative Care
- Using Virtual Reality to Explore Parkinson’s Dementia and Lewy Body Dementia in Older Adults
- Q&A: An open discussion with Dr. Jennifer Pauldurai
- Dementia Man An Existential Journey
CONFERENCE SPEAKERS
Laurel Beedon, Ph.D. – Senior Fellow, Women’s Institute for a Secure Retirement (WISER)
Melanie Bunn – Trainer, Teepa Snow’s Positive Approach to Care (PAC)
Colleen Burns – Trainer, Teepa Snow’s Positive Approach to Care (PAC)
Elizabeth Crego – Senior Staff Attorney, Legal Services of Northern Virginia
Jane H Euler, MS – End-of-Life Doula and Co-Founder, Present for You, LLC
Alex Freiman – Registered Dietician, Goodwin Living
Sally Hurme, JD – Elder Law Expert and Author
Kristin Martin – Manager of Case Management, Inova ElderLink
Allison Neov – Registered Dietician, Goodwin Living
Brian Patterson – Chef, Culinary Innovation and Development, Goodwin Living
Jennifer Pauldurai, MD – Cognitive and Behavioral Neurologist, Inova Parkinson’s and Movement Disorders Center
Nicole Rochester, MD – Founder and CEO, Your GPS Doc, LLC
Samuel A. Simon – Actor and Playwright, Dementia Man, An Existential Journey
Deme Warner – Social Work Case Manager, Inova ElderLink
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