Schutt spent four years as her mom’s primary caregiver, writing songs about the dark and the light of her mother’s journey from diagnosis to death of ovarian cancer. Kate wants us all to know how to show up for our grieving friends so they don’t feel alone with their...
There’s a lot of advice on how to care for someone with Alzheimer’s without, well, losing your mind. Not a lot of it works. I was a very earnest child. My poor parents had to deal with me taking things very literally. I still want to correct every mistake...
Alia Indrawan is an integrative healing practitioner and intuitive guide based in Bali, Indonesia. She has previously worked as a Hospice Nurse, helping people with terminal illness to die gracefully and in peace. She has taken the lessons she’s learned from...
Those who work with the dying are familiar with patients seeing long deceased loved ones, angelic beings, even hearing music and comforting voices as the patient nears death. Deathbed phenomena have been documented in the days, weeks, and months before death since the...
Psychologist, writer and innovator, Geoff Warburton has spent the last 25 years studying love and loss. Geoff challenges conventional apathy about grief and loss by offering an approach that evokes curiosity, openness and compassion. His approach synthesises Eastern...
Dr. Arévalo-Flechas asks, “What makes the difference in the perception of caring for elderly relatives?” She uses her research of Hispanic/Latino caregivers to explain care-giving in cultural terms, using bilingual references as graphic examples. Lyda C....
Dr. Irfan Lalani is a physician in both neurology and pain medicine. After graduating from the Aga Khan University Medical College in 1999, he served a 2 year postdoctoral fellowship in Neurogenetics at the Northwestern University School of Medicine. This was followed...
Carrie Clarke is a former traditional signwriter who has worked for many years in the arts and health field. She is currently an Occupational Therapist working with an NHS inpatient unit for people with dementia in Exeter, UK; she is also a practising artist. In 2010...
How do you go from world traveler to funeral counselor the span of one phone call? In her talk, Laura Prince explores the transformative power of grief , death, and her passion for changing the way we as a society approach death. While studying Gerontology and working...
Kathy Lette first achieved success as a teenager with the novel “Puberty Blues” which was made into a major film and a TV mini-series. After several years as a newspaper columnist and television sitcom writer in L.A. and N.Y, she wrote twelve international...
Nancy Berns is a sociologist at Drake University. She looks at the space between grief and closure and has found that not only is closure a fabricated concept, it is doing us more harm than...
Bridget Park is a high school senior from Reno, Nevada. Inspired by the tragic loss of her brother, Bridget wrote her debut memoir at the age of 15 in the hopes that her story would encourage others to find healthy ways of grieving. In this talk, Bridget shares her...
Simon works for a local support charity in Derby that helps other charities to form and grow. He delivers training, workshops and talks in schools and out in the community about volunteering and he also manages a community reporting project. Since Annabel’s...
On December 14, 2012, the day Adam Lanza killed his mother, then walked into a school in Newtown, Connecticut and shot 20 first graders and 6 brave educators, I shared my struggles as a parent of a child with mental illness on my anonymous blog, the Anarchist Soccer...
A professional flutist, Toshiro Mitsutomi, developed 3 tips to evoke dementia patients’ memory and their life successfully during his 40years career: 1)play close 2)play at the same eye level 3)looking in the eye while playing. He actually demonstrated it by...
In this moving, personal talk, Amy Cameron O’Rourke urges us toward a more holistic, values-oriented approach to caring for our oldest loved ones. In a world where growing older can mean entering into a complex and confusing maze of difficult choices, Amy...
This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. There is power in grieving intentionally and purposefully. Telling her own story of loss, Elaine Mansfield explains the use of ritual as a tool for empowerment for life’s most...
Caregiving can at times take over every part of your life. Phyllis shares her experience caregiving for the five members in her family’s older generation. Phyllis Peters is an author and educator who has variously embodied the spirit of musician, waitress,...
June emphasized that families need to work alongside nurses to care for their relatives with Dementia. Professor June Andrews FRCN is Director of the Dementia Services Development Centre at the University of Stirling. She is a Fellow of the Royal College of Nursing...
This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Through a deeply personal account of her own mother’s battle with Alzheimer’s, Carol Shillinglaw explains difficulties that families encounter adapting to a loved...
For decades the conventional wisdom of neuroscience held that our brain is hardwired, fixed and immutable, but new findings in the last 20 years leave no doubt that – on the contrary – our brain is dramatically plastic; it can adapt, rewire, heal, renew,...
Kate Irving, who has spent the last 20 years of her career working with people with Dementia, is clinical lead in the Memory Works clinic in the Healthy Living Centre, an initiative to decrease stigma and increase access to information about cognitive health promotion...
The spark was a family need to stimulate and interest Scott’s father who was suffering with dementia and being cared for by Scott’s mother. His personal family journey led to the creation of a growing company focused on those who care for others. Scott is...
Magnetic resonance images are revolutionizing dementia diagnosis because of the use of computers for their analysis. The brain degeneration that causes failure of memory can be detected before symptoms arise, which raises new perspectives for treatment. Richard...
Healthcare expenditure is the biggest threat to America’s economy, due to an aging population and a system in which physicians are often paid based on what they do to their patients, rather than fostering a patient’s overall quality of life. Dr. Timothy...
Janice Keefe, PhD is a Full Professor in the Department of Family Studies and Gerontology at Mount Saint Vincent University and holds appointments at two other Universities(Dal and UNB). She is Director of the Nova Scotia Centre on Aging and the Lena Isabel Jodrey...
Pamela Nelson is an artist living in Dallas, working in painting, mixed media, and public art installations. Pamela has exhibited in over 100 national venues, including the Dallas Museum of Art, Austin Museum of Art, Arkansas Art Center in Little Rock, Beaumont Museum...
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