Webinar: The Power of Social Connection: Memory Cafés and Tête-à-Tête
The National Alzheimer’s and Dementia Resource Center (NADRC) is holding a webinar on November 20, "The Power of Social Connection: Memory Cafés and Tête-à-Tête."
The webinar will describe the key features of the Memory Café model; discuss five operational factors that promote a successful Memory Café; identify specific challenges that minority communities face in accessing dementia-capable care and supportive services, and how to mitigate these challenges; and describe how an Administration for Community Living dementia grant help to create Tête-à-Tête, a Memory Café−inspired activity targeted toward a Haitian, Creole-speaking faith-based community.
Presenters include:
- Beth Soltzberg, social worker and a program director at Jewish Family & Children’s Service (JF&CS), Boston, MA, runs the JF&CS Memory Café, is Founding Director of the Percolator Memory Café network, leads the Dementia Friends MA public awareness program, and serves on the Dementia Friendly Massachusetts leadership team.
- Dr. María Ordóñez, Board-certified gerontological and psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner, specializes in caring for older adults. Her practice seeks to provide culturally responsive and linguistically appropriate science-based care interventions for aging populations, and to meet the needs of unserved and underserved minority communities.
The webinar is part of the NADRC web seminar 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.
