NADRC Webinar: Reaching Socially Isolated People Living With Dementia
The National Alzheimer’s and Dementia Resource Center (NADRC) is holding a webinar on January 13, "Reaching Socially Isolated People Living With Dementia."
Persons with dementia faced social isolation (even before COVID-19) through a combination of social and demographic factors. This webinar will discuss what we know about these people, the precarity of their lives and describe experimental outreach and engagement techniques and programs, including a collaborative care coordination model used in Virginia.
The webinar will provide validated loneliness assessment scales, identify causes of social isolation, distinguish between social isolation and living alone, and pinpoint two tasks of dementia Care Coordinators. Presenters include Dr. Carol Manning, director of the Memory Disorders Clinic at the University of Virginia, and Michael Splaine, principal of Splaine Consulting.
This webinar is part of the NADRC webinar series, sponsored by the Administration for Community Living. It is being hosted by the American Society on Aging (ASA).
For more information and to register, click here.
