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Breakout Session 102 on Wednesday, May 8 @ 10:45-11:45 a.m.

Not Always Alzheimer's Disease: Success with Other Forms of Dementia

In this session, participants will learn that all forms of dementia must be managed differently due to differing traits. Knowing the progression of the stages of dementia and forming person-centered plans fall short of meeting the needs of each client unless the diagnosis and differing characteristics are built into the plan. This session reviews and compares the similarities and differences between Alzheimer's Disease, Lewy Body, Fronto Temporal dementia, Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus, Early Onset Alzheimer's, Primary Progressive Aphasia, Pick's Disease, Huntington's Disease, Creutzfeldt-Jacob Disease, and Limbic Predominant Age-related TDP-43 encephalopathy (LATE) forms of dementia. Strategies will be shared to assist with addressing the individual in a person-centered manner and using the distinct similarities and differences to gain optimal care and outcomes.
  • Identify 5 forms of dementia and their characteristics.
  • Explore strategies that bring functional outcomes for less common forms of dementia.
  • Describe how each form of dementia varies in objectives and treatment.

Kari K. Brizendine, PT, CWS, CDP, CADDCP, CMDCP, Education Specialist, Select Rehabilitation, Glenview, IL
Kari Brizendine, a physical therapist, is a graduate from Virginia Commonwealth University/Medical College of Virginia. An Education Specialist for Select Rehab, one of our nation’s largest long-term care rehab providers, Kari has spent more than 39 years working with the geriatric population in a multitude of clinical settings where she has been responsible for patient care, clinical programming, education, and staff development. Her most recent interest has been working with Artificial Intelligence as it relates to fall prevention and reduction. She is a Certified Wound Specialist through the American Board of Wound Management, a Certified Dementia Practitioner and Trainer through the National Council of Certified Dementia Practitioners, a Certified Montessori Dementia Care Professional and she is LSVT Big Certified. Her predominant interest has been in serving those with dementia, their caregivers, health care providers and families, with the message that each person with dementia continues to have a life that matters, and that quality is possible if we all join that person using his or her personal interests, residual skills and memories in what she calls “My Way”. She is the co-author of My Past is Now My Future: A Practical Guide to Dementia Possible Care and author of Though You Do Not Know My Name I Know You Love Me Just the Same.
 
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