The E.A.Roberts Alzheimer’s Center Educational Dementia Support Group will be led by Certified Dementia Trainer, Dana Adair. She will speak on “Fall Prevention for the Dementia Patient.” Meeting begins at 10:00 am on Thursday, Sept. 8, 2016. For more information, go to ALZBRAIN.ORG or call 251-435-6950.
Complimentary care will be provided during the meeting.
Mobile County Sheriff’s Office will present the next Educational Dementia Support Group with information concerning safety. Topics will include Project Lifesaver, the Yellow Dot Program, and Senior Fraud Protection. The meeting will be held at E. A. Roberts Center at 169 Mobile Infirmary Blvd in Mobile, AL on Thursday, August 11th at 10:00 am. Complimentary care will be provided during the meeting. Call 251-435-6950 for more information.
Attend the E. A. Roberts Alzheimer’s Center Educational Dementia Support Group on Thursday, July 14, at 10:00 a.m. Kyla G. Kelim, Attorney at Law, will present information to help protect your life’s work. Complimentary care will be provided during the meeting. Located at 169 Mobile Infirmary Boulevard, Mobile, AL 36607. 251-435-6950.
Project Director Ginger Wettingfeld, Program Consultant Jason Gerling, and Gemma Campbell of Mercy Medical Pace Program
People scurried in from the hot sun to fill the remaining seats at the GM&O Building this Wednesday morning. A who’s who of care providers gathered to hear what is in store from the Alabama Integrated Care Network. Conducting the ninth and last of the Alabama Medicaid Society’s organized meetings across the state, Jason Gerling presented a thorough explanation of the current system and how the 2015 legislation will be carried out with a target of readiness in 2018.
The ultimate goal is to improve the quality, accessibility, and sustainability of Medicaid Healthcare and Long Term Care. He pointed out that the PACE program we have in Mobile is the only one of it’s kind in Alabama.
Attendees were given the chance to ask questions and share how they benefit from the current funding. A follow-up meeting is scheduled in September and a survey will follow. Comments can be submitted at ICNinfo@medicaid.alabama.gov.
The Alzheimer’s Association estimates there are more than five million Americans
living with Alzheimer’s disease and more than 15 million Alzheimer’s caregivers.
On their behalf, I am counted among 1,200 others across the country that appeal to Congress for action on Alzheimer’s disease.
Four people in my family have died from Alzheimer’s disease. As a result,
advocating for those who currently care for their loved ones and for people living
with the disease is a daily mission.
Alzheimer’s is not only devastating but fatal. Alzheimer’s is the sixth leading cause of
death in the U.S. with no cure or prevention.
We thank U.S. Reprentative Bradley Byrne for meeting with our delegation to
discuss the Alzheimer’s crisis. We are grateful for his support of the Health Outcomes, Planning, and Education Act and for increased funding for research.
Most recently we have asked for his support of the Palliative Care Hospice
Education and Training Act (PCHETA).
It is only through adequate funding and implementing the National
Plan to Address Alzheimer’s Disease that we will meet its goal of preventing and
effectively treating Alzheimer’s by 2025.
To get involved, contact https://byrne.house.gov/contact and ask for support of PCHETA.
Beth Reinert, Ambassador for the AL/FL Panhandle Chapter of the Alzheimer’s Association.
“Hurricane Season and the Dementia Patient – Don’t Wait – Start Making Preparations Now” is the topic for the next educational dementia support group held on May 12, 2016 at 10:00 am at the E.A. Roberts Alzheimer’s Center, located at 169 Mobile Infirmary Blvd in Mobile, AL 36607.
Complimentary care will be provided during the meeting. Please call 251-435-6950 for more information.
The reminders come at the most unexpected time. Today, it was in the greeting card aisle. Looking for a birthday card for my mother-in-law drew my eye to several cards that were for “Mama”. The perfect card for my own, now deceased, Mama.
I’d never seen a card just for “Mama” before. I would have bought that for her. Along with the liquid soap, lotion, and pudding snacks. Another reminder of how my life has changed since she’s been gone. I didn’t expect to miss her so much. Caring for her brought purpose, a mission to pursue, and love to give. Now, I think fondly of when we would go for a drive together, easy listening music playing, seeing the multicolored leaves on a sunny, fall day – just the two of us, safe and at peace, in the moment. The daily tasks that we accomplished together, navigating life in assisted living, memory care, and ultimately, skilled care instilled a partnership and bond I never anticipated. We met so many new people and made situational friends because of Alzheimer’s disease. I would not have missed those days for anything. And now that they are gone, I miss the sense of meaning in my life that I felt, at her side.
So much learned, accomplished, endured, and required. It’s like that feeling you have after you have finished a really good book. You hate to close the book, knowing that it’s over. You may even read everything on the cover, inspect the author’s bio, and hope there is a photo. But you know it’s finished. So you savor the moment you spent with the characters and the feelings you shared and are thankful for the author’s inspiration. Reluctantly, you have to move on. And then, you hope for another really good book to come along.
James L. Roberson from the Area Agency on Aging will speak to the Dementia Support Group on 2016 Medicare Updates for Dementia Caregivers at the E. A. Roberts Center on Thursday, March 10, 2016 at 10:00 am. Located at 169 Mobile Infirmary Blvd, complimentary care will be provided during the meeting.
Call 251-435-6950 for more information.
You are invited to attend the next E.A. Roberts Support Group on November 12, 2015 at 10:00 am. Located on 169 Mobile Infirmary Boulevard in Mobile, AL. Complimentary care will be provided during the meeting.
Come meet Brian LeBlanc, Advocate and member of the Alzheimer’s Association National Early-Stage Advisory Group, who will tell his story and explain his life with Alzheimer’s disease.
For more information, call 251-435-6950.
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