Event Description
Leading
a “Good Life” with Dementia: What is the Evidence for Supporting Individuals
and Families?
Laura
N. Gitlin, PhD
Live
and via Live Webcast
Drexel
University CNHP Division of CNE
Bayada
Home Healthcare Speaker Series
Registration and Light Reception: 6
p.m. – 6:30 p.m.
Lecture: 6:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.
Evaluations: 7:30 p.m. – 7:45 p.m.
This
lecture will provide an overview of dementia as a public health priority and
review the evidence for ways to support individuals living with the condition
and their family members. Specific proven care programs will be reviewed and
implications for preparing a workforce and their widespread dissemination
discussed.
Speaker bio:
Laura N. Gitlin, PhD, an applied
research sociologist taking the helm of the College of Nursing and Health
Professions in February 2018, is the Isabel Hampton Robb Distinguished
Professor, Department of Community Public Health, School of Nursing with joint
appointments in the Department of Psychiatry and Division of Geriatric
Medicine, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University. She is also the
founding director of the Center for Innovative Care in Aging at the Johns
Hopkins School of Nursing. The Center is transforming healthcare delivery and
the health and wellbeing of older adults and their families through rigorous
research developing novel home and community-based interventions, trainings of
health and human service professionals in evidence-based programs and models of
care and translation and implementation of proven interventions in service
delivery settings. As of February 1, 2018, she will be a distinguished
professor and dean of the College of Nursing and Health Professions at Drexel
University. Gitlin is nationally and, internationally recognized for her
research on psychosocial environmental home and community-based interventions
that have been developed with various interprofessional teams to improve
quality of life of persons with dementia and their family caregivers, to
enhance daily function of older adults with functional disability and to
address mental health disparities, particularly in older African Americans. She
is a well-funded researcher, having received continuous research and training
grants from federal agencies and private foundations for 35 years.
For
more information, click here.
Register now.
You must register in
advance. Registration deadline is April 14, 2018 at 12 p.m. ET.
Questions?
Please email ed35@drexel.edu or Lbw25@drexel.edu.
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