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Michael A. Becketts
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38th Annual Caregiver's Conference: Navigating the Journey: Adjusting the Sails in Dementia Caregiving

38th Annual Caregivers Conference

38th Annual Caregiver's Conference

Navigating the Journey: Adjusting the Sails in Dementia Caregiving

Saturday, November 2, 2024, 8:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.

Fairfax County Government Center, 12000 Government Center Parkway, Fairfax, VA 22035

Please join us for the largest dementia conference in the region that is specifically for family and professional caregivers. Don’t miss this chance to enhance your caregiving skills and network with others in the community.

Conference Information

Update Nov. 1, 2024 - Registration is full.

For conference information visit nvdcc.com.

$35 conference fee includes continental breakfast, lunch, snack, materials and certificate of attendance. 

All attendees will receive a complimentary copy of The 36-Hour Day by Nancy L. Mace, MA, and Peter V. Rabins, MD, MPH, courtesy of Fairfax County Department of Family Services’ Fairfax Area Agency on Aging.

View full conference program. 

If you require an accommodation for any type of disability to participate, please call 703-578-7431. We kindly request seven days advance notice.

8:00 am - 8:30 am – Check-In, Breakfast and Exhibitor Showcase

9:00 am – Welcome

9:15 am – Opening Keynote: Dementia is Stressful (Dr. Jennifer Pauldurai, Inova Neurosciences)

10:15 am -- Break and Visit Exhibitors

10:30 am - Breakout Sessions*

11:30 am – Lunch and Visit Exhibitors

12:45 pm – Keynote: Changing Resistance to Care to Participation in Care: Teepa Snow’s Positive Approach to Care (Melanie Bunn)

1:45 pm – Break and Visit Exhibitors

2:00 pm – Breakout Sessions*

3:00 pm - Break 

3:15 pm - Closing Keynote: Weathering the Storm: Finding Rainbows During the Caregiving Journey

3:45 pm – Adjourn

* Choose your breakout sessions at online registration

  • Financial/Legal Panel Discussion: Navigating Dementia Care
  • Improving Your Hands-On Skills for Giving Care: A Teepa Snow Positive Approach
  • Simple, Delicious and Nutritious
  • Misconceptions of End-of-Life Care: Hospice vs. Palliative Care
  • Using Virtual Reality to Explore Parkinson’s Dementia and Lewy Body Dementia in Older Adults
  • Q&A: An open discussion with Dr. Jennifer Pauldurai
  • Dementia Man An Existential Journey

 

CONFERENCE SPEAKERS

Laurel Beedon, Ph.D. – Senior Fellow, Women’s Institute for a Secure Retirement (WISER)

Melanie Bunn – Trainer, Teepa Snow’s Positive Approach to Care (PAC)

Colleen Burns – Trainer, Teepa Snow’s Positive Approach to Care (PAC)

Elizabeth Crego – Senior Staff Attorney, Legal Services of Northern Virginia

Jane H Euler, MS – End-of-Life Doula and Co-Founder, Present for You, LLC

Alex Freiman – Registered Dietician, Goodwin Living

Sally Hurme, JD – Elder Law Expert and Author

Kristin Martin – Manager of Case Management, Inova ElderLink

Allison Neov – Registered Dietician, Goodwin Living

Brian Patterson – Chef, Culinary Innovation and Development, Goodwin Living

Jennifer Pauldurai, MD – Cognitive and Behavioral Neurologist, Inova Parkinson’s and Movement Disorders Center

Nicole Rochester, MD – Founder and CEO, Your GPS Doc, LLC

Samuel A. Simon – Actor and Playwright, Dementia Man, An Existential Journey

Deme Warner – Social Work Case Manager, Inova ElderLink

The 38th Annual Caregivers Conference is provided by the Northern Virginia Dementia Care Consortium.

  • AARP Virginia
  • Alexandria Department of Community and Human Services, Division of Aging and Adult Services
  • Arlington Aging and Disability Services
  • Fairfax Area Agency on Aging
  • Goodwin Living 
  • Inova ElderLink
  • Inova Parkinson's and Movement Disorders Center
  • Insight Memory Care Center
  • Loudoun County Area Agency on Aging
  • Prince William County Area Agency on Aging

Major Support Provided by: 

  • AARP Virginia
  • Synergy HomeCare
  • Retirement Unlimited Incorporated
  • Loudoun County Area Agency on Aging
     

Learn about Fairfax County Department of Family Services Older Adults' Services and Family Caregiver Support Programs.

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