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Starting June 8th at 2 PM, lectures and discussions will be offered by the OASIS WeCare Institute to the general public bimonthly for Caregivers at the Heritage Barn in Brewster.
Lectures will continue on the 2nd and 4th Wednesday of each month.
Upcoming schedule
What is cognitive decline? NASEM Health and Medicine Division, Anna Burke, MD, Barrow Neurological Institute
What is normal decline?
June 22nd
Depression & Cognitive Impairment, presented by Phil Borders, MD
Is it Depression or Dementia? Claire Morley & Nicolette Asselin, MD
Types of declines that can be treated or slowed down.
July 27th
How should one go about diagnosing and why it is important to know from a provider trained on the subject?
Stories about misdiagnoses. Rush to diagnosis by unqualified providers.
August 10th
Understanding Dementia. What are the different type of dementia? Presented by Susanne Faith, R.N. CDP and Allan Johnson, MSW, Lic SW
How to get assistance if a family member has been diagnosed?
August 24th
Activities to reduce anxiety, by Claire Morley – Labyrinth Health Advocacy
Flowering your Mind, by Susanne Faith, R.N. CDP
September 14th
Managing Behaviors in Dementia, by Susanne Faith, R.N. CDP and Allan Johnson, MSW, Lic SW
What caregivers need to know about caring for someone? Options. Discuss Pro/con. Nicolette Asselin, M.D. OASIS WeCare Institute
September 28th
Caring for the Caregiver, by Claire Morley – Labyrinth Health Advocacy
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You’re invited to Saturday Caregiver’s Get-TogetherView details and replySaturday, January 22 4:00PM – 6:00PMVirtual Accessmeet.google.com/npk-mitp-swt
A three part series By Suzanne Faith RN, CDP Alan Johnson, MSW, LICSW, Cape Cod Health Care Education Program for Dementia. This program will be offered for caregivers on three consecutive Wednesdays in January (12, 19 & 26th) at the Heritage Barn of Captain Foster Homestead at 1 PM followed by questions, answers and encouragement.
Growing old is not always simple. Mediation helps resolve conflicts on decisions between adult children and aging parents. In the end all will feel better about any decisions made by having a neutral mediator.
If you are in need of mediation we can help connect you with the right person. (Contact Us)
The Secret Ingredients of Cognitive Wellbeing
Physical activity is an integral part of who we are. However, when someone suffers an accident or contracts an illness, a whole part of the self goes dormant until reawakened by some known sensory input. Adaptive sports address that very issue. It has the power to give someone new wings.
My personal experience on this subject was with my husband. Before his head injury, we were always doing some form of sport recreation, skiing, or bicycling. After his injury, it stopped, we did PT and speech therapy, and it helped. However, the day he joined an Adaptive Sports program with Spaulding Rehabilitation, a side of him woke up again. After he returned from the first recumbent bike session, his face and words had changed. His eyes sparkled glitters. “I have not had that much fun in a very, very long time.” It was as if it had awoken some other part of his being as if he had found a new purpose. Being an adventurous person by nature, the experience had brought back all the things he once enjoyed, or he had once wanted to do. Now he would say: “Let’s have a ride in a Hot Air Balloon.” He watched now program with a sense of: “I could do that.” The skinniest skyscraper was now something we could visit, as he marveled at the design and engineering ingenuity. Some parts of himself were reborn, and he was enthusiastic once again. I cannot enumerate the many aspects of the beneficial effects of the few sessions we attended.
We also experienced something similar when I had hired someone to do Yoga classes. Debra Hyson, a Certified Yoga Instructor with extended experience teaching elders, reconnected his right and left. It also seemed to coincide with his losing the left neglect he had been experiencing in the past two years.
In summary, I experienced a close-up of the precious gains from any physical activity on cognition and moods.
By Nicolette Asselin, writer at Reflex-ions