Connection Café · Aging in Place
A warm, welcoming space for care partners to connect, reflect, and feel supported, while loved ones spend time nearby with volunteers in conversation and meaningful engagement.
A warm, welcoming space for care partners to connect, reflect, and feel supported, while loved ones spend time nearby with volunteers in conversation and meaningful engagement.
Understanding Fluctuations in Dementia. An interactive discussion focused on why abilities, behaviors, and emotions can shift day to day and how understanding these changes helps you manage them. Maureen Braen, Moderator.
A warm, welcoming space for care partners to connect, reflect, and feel supported, while loved ones spend time nearby with volunteers in conversation and meaningful engagement.
In dementia care, it is often not what we say but how we show up that shapes the outcome. This gathering will explore how tone, pace, positioning and presence influence connection, cooperation, and emotional safety, and how small relational shifts can create smoother, more connected moments in daily life. Maureen Braen, Moderator.
A warm, welcoming space for care partners to connect, reflect, and feel supported, while loved ones spend time nearby with volunteers in conversation and meaningful engagement.
In dementia care, the brain often reacts to how a moment feels before it processes the words being spoken. This Kaleidoscope gathering will explore how safety, tone, pace, and presence influence whether a moment feels safe or stressful, and how creating a sense of safety can help difficult moments settle before words are even needed. […]
A warm, welcoming space for care partners to connect, reflect, and feel supported, while loved ones spend time nearby with volunteers in conversation and meaningful engagement.
A small group for individuals experiencing mild cognitive impairment (MCI) or early cognitive changes. A place to connect with others walking a similar journey, share perspectives, and feel understood by people who truly get it.
A small group for individuals experiencing mild cognitive impairment (MCI) or early cognitive changes. A place to connect with others walking a similar journey, share perspectives, and feel understood by people who truly get it.
Special Guest Speaker: Naomi Becker Collier, Esquire. Naomi is a trusts and estates and elder law attorney who works closely with individuals and families as they plan for the future. She is a member of the New Jersey State Bar Association, Elder and Disability Law Section, and the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys.
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