Alzheimer's & Dementia   

Learn about some of the most interesting and important aspects of our current knowledge of the brain. From basic function to brain bias, impulses, and morals, this engaging talk analyzes the basics of our brain capabilities, limitations and decision-making process.

As a practicing neurologist, Dr. Jose Gaudier explains his area of expertise. Over the last 20 years he has been constantly revising medical literature to maintain his clinical skills and keep lectures current.

In this presentation, you'll gain a better understanding of dementia, the different forms, the challenges caregivers face and how best to cope.

Are you or your loved one experiencing a "senior moment" or is some form of irreversible dementia occurring? How can you make a determination and what can you do about it?

Dementia is a decline in mental ability severe enough to interfere with daily life. Alzheimer's is the most common type, but there are others such as Vascular, Frontaltemporal, Lewy Body, Parkinson's. Learn what it means to have dementia and how to make the best choices for you and your loved one. Receive experience-based answers to your questions and practical tools, tips, and techniques to be more effective.  The useful information about hospitals, physicians, medications, treatments, home care agencies, long term care facilities, legal protections, financial planning,  and community resources let you take steps now to prevent future problems.  Helping you help your loved one in a safe supportive manner through all types of dementia related issues is what this class seeks to do. 

The class meets monthly on the third Tuesday  and you may register anytime during the term unless seating is filled.  The class and materials are FREE. 

Teachings Will Include:

Dementia 101-You will understand what dementia is, its causes and the primary tool to caring for someone with dementia.

What Every Caregiver Needs To Know- Learn what will be needed to be done and how to cope with the demands.

Dementia Over Time- Learn what to expect as the dementia disease continues. 

Get Your Affairs In Order- You will learn the key and supportive documents you need.

Money Matters- How to structure your finances for optimal help in Florida.

How To Pick And Pay For Help (part one)- You will learn the various care options available, questions to ask before you engage assistance or place your loved one

How To Pick And Pay For Help (part two)- You will learn about free and financial resources.

Difficult Behaviors- How to effectively redirect a dementia person to comply.

Home Safety- Learn how to 'dementia proof' your home and create a safe world for your loved one.

Coping With Caregiver Stress- Learn proven methods to cope caregivers stress in mind, body and soul.

Rapid Change Alerts-Learn the seven challenging area for caregivers to watch for.

Long Term Care Community- Learn how to prepare for, move into and deal with long term care facility.  

 

Join DJ Ryan, RN and Lanie Shirey, Director of Marketing with Hospice of Marion County for this unique Virtual Dementia Tour and training class. This is an interactive class with attendees using a virtual headset that helps caregivers understand the challenges people living with dementia face on a daily basis. You'll learn how to live in a relationship with someone that has dementia and better cope with what they are experiencing.

When someone shows signs of cognitive decline, its time to talk. Often, conversations with family about changing behaviors can be challenging and uncomfortable. This program offers tips on how to have honest and caring conversations to address some of the most common issues. Topics covered in the program include: Going to the doctor, deciding when to stop driving, and making legal and financial plans.

In every state, voluntarily stopping eating and drinking is available as a method of hastening death for those facing the end of life. This course will review the process, illustrate both documents and techniques necessary for success, and offer several options of specialized advance directives to make it more likely than not one's own wishes will be upheld. We will include the current options for indicating choices in advanced dementia.

Dr. Art DeVany’s talk is a continuation of his ongoing study of the evolution of the human body and brain as a unitary system; a controller (brain) and effector (muscle) model coupled by systemic signals. This integrated view, centered on brain-body signaling, reveals new strategies for preventing brain deterioration and maintaining a healthy, lean body. It makes clear that Alzheimer’s disease and many other diseases of neural degeneration and cognitive decline are largely metabolic diseases compounded by loss of muscle mass and stem cell exhaustion. For example, a loss of insulin sensitivity precedes the onset of Alzheimer’s disease by at least 15 years. Remarkably, the areas of the brain most affected are the most recent additions to the brain and are the most dependant on glucose metabolism. This connection has an evolutionary basis for counter measures to prevent metabolic decline and loss of neurons and muscle mass. The many pathways and genes involved in the loss of cognition and motor coordination are sketched in my talk and they are part of a revolution in the scientific understanding of brain/body signaling and cognitive decline.

Dr. De Vany is a Professor Emeritus of Economics and the Institute for Mathematical Behavioral Sciences of the University of California, Irvine. He has published numerous scientific articles and books in his career and is listed in Who’s Who in the World. His work in spectrum laid the foundation for market allocation of spectrum use rights and auctions which has become the model for spectrum allocation through-out the world; his work on military manpower helped establish the viability of a voluntary force; his work in air transport was the first to forecast or anticipate the efficiency of the hub and spoke pattern of flight routing and frequency; his work in motion picture box office statistical dynamics established the “nobody knows” principle of uncertainty.

Dr. De Vany was one of the first proponents of what has now become the “paleo” diet and lifestyle and is often referred to as the “Grandfather of Paleo,” by The New York Times and The Times of London. He has lived half of his almost 80 years of life in the paleo way. He published his models and methods of an evolutionary lifestyle in his book, The New Evolution Diet, and is now working on a book on aging tentatively titled Renewing Cycles: Healing the wounds of aging through improved cellular defense and systemic renewal signaling.