GEM November events

Date & Time Event & Location
November 10th @2:00 Candle lighting to Honor Remember & Care for our
friends and family member with memory loss, veterans and those loved ones
that have passed St. Andrews by the Sea, NH
November 13th @11:30 Rosalind Pugh Project C.A.R.E
Players Grille, Nags Head
November 14th @2:30 Memory Screening Community Care Clinic of Dare
November 20th @3:30 Caring TEENS Dare County Parks & Rec. building KDH
November 27th @10am Caring TEENS & FOY Dare County Center
Program with Purpose
December 4th @3:30 Caring TEENS Dare County Parks & Rec. building KDH
December 6th @2:30 Dr. Philippi, Neurologist
UUCOB Herbert Perry Road Kitty Hawk
December 10th @3:30 Caring TEENS Dare County Parks & Rec. building KDH
December 14th @ 7pm Violins & Voices a Classical Christmas Concert
St. Andrews by the Sea, Nags Head
This is our only fundraisers please support us! Tickets $10.00 includes
refreshments
December 17 @3:30 Caring TEENS Dare County Parks & Rec. building KDH
January 8th @ 11:30 End of Life Care Mary Leatherwood Community Home
Care & Hospice. Courtney Gallop - Gallop Funeral Services
January TBA Dementia 101 * Caring Effectively * Qualified Dementia Care
Provider Workshop * Mentor Training
January 15th @3:30 Caring TEENS Dare County Parks & Rec. building KDH
FEB 20, 2014 10:00 -4:00 pm
Currituck Cooperative Ext. Hopeful Aging Workshop with Hearthstone
Non-Pharmacologic Interventions for Persons with Dementia
Montessori-inspired Activity Programming (MAPT) for Person With Dementia
Check out Dr. John Zeisel





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Memory Screening

GEM Day Services, Inc. is providing a Memory Screening
Date: November 14th, 2013
Time: 2:30 - 4:30
Where: Community Care Clinic of Dare on Health Center Drive in Nags Head
We are pleased to announce that Nancy Kosanovich, NP, Tami Chase, RN, Janet
Jordan, RN and Carol Meyer, RN will be providing the screening for GEM.

Why are memory screenings important?

Memory Screenings are the first step toward finding out if a person may have
a memory problem. Memory problems could be caused by Alzheimer's or other
medical conditions.
While a memory screening is not used to diagnose any particular illness and
does not replace consultation with a qualified physician or other health
care professional, it is very helpful. A screening can check a person's
memory and other thinking skills. It can indicate if someone might benefit
from a more complete medical visit.

Call or email Gail Sonnesso at 252-480-3354 or gsonnesso@gmail.com to
register for a complimentary screening.
Gail E. Sonnesso, MS, QDCS
GEM Adult Day Services, Inc.
Gentle Expert Memorycare
252-480-3354



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Presidential Proclamation -- Blind Americans Equality Day, 2013

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

 

A PROCLAMATION

 

Blind and visually impaired persons have always played an important role in American life and culture, and today we recommit to our goals of full access and opportunity. Whether sprinting across finish lines, leading innovation in business and government, or creating powerful music and art, blind and visually impaired Americans imagine and pursue ideas and goals that move our country forward. As a Nation, it is our task to ensure they can always access the tools and support they need to turn those ideas and goals into realities.

 

My Administration is committed to advancing opportunity for people with disabilities through the Americans with Disabilities Act and other important avenues. In June of this year, the United States joined with over 150 countries in approving a landmark treaty that aims to expand access for visually impaired persons and other persons with print disabilities to information, culture, and education. By facilitating access to books and other printed material, the treaty holds the potential to open up worlds of knowledge. If the United States becomes a party to this treaty, we can reduce the book famine that confronts the blind community while maintaining the integrity of the international copyright framework.

 

The United States was also proud to join 141 other countries in signing the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in 2009, and we are working toward its ratification. Americans with Disabilities, including those who are blind or visually impaired, should have the same opportunities to work, study, and travel in other countries as any other American, and the Convention can help us realize that goal.

 

To create a more level playing field and ensure students with disabilities have access to the general education curriculum, the Department of Education issued new guidance in June for the use of Braille as a literacy tool under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. This guidance reaffirms my Administration's commitment to using Braille to open doors for students who are blind or visually impaired, so every student has a chance to succeed in the classroom and graduate from high school prepared for college and careers.

 

We have come a long way in our journey toward a more perfect Union, but we still have work ahead. We must fulfill the promise of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness and expand the freedom to make of our lives what we will. On this day, we celebrate the accomplishments of our blind and visually impaired citizens, and we recommit to building a Nation where all Americans, including those who are blind or visually impaired, live with the assurance of equal opportunity and equal respect.

 

By joint resolution approved on October 6, 1964 (Public Law 88-628, as amended), the Congress designated October 15 of each year as "White Cane Safety Day" to recognize the contributions of Americans who are blind or have low vision. Today, let us recommit to ensuring we remain a Nation where all our people, including those with disabilities, have every opportunity to achieve their dreams.

 

NOW, THEREFORE, I, BARACK OBAMA, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim October 15, 2013, as Blind Americans Equality Day. I call upon public officials, business and community leaders, educators, librarians, and Americans across the country to observe this day with appropriate ceremonies, activities, and programs.

 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this eleventh day of October, in the year of our Lord two thousand thirteen, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and thirty-eighth.

 

BARACK OBAMA

 

 

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GEM EVENTS 2013

GEM EVENTS 2013
Date & Time
Event & Location
September 3rd
3:30 – 5pm
Caring TEENS at the Baum Center till 5pm
Create craft for Program w/ Purpose DCC-9/12 
September 10th
1:30 – 4:30
Caring Effectively COA Manteo Campus
September: 10, 17, 24 & Oct 1st.
September 12th                      11am- 12pm
Program with Purpose Dare County Center                                                          craft with Gail Exercise w/ Allison
September 17th
1:30 -4:30
Caring Effectively COA Manteo Campus
September: 10, 17, 24 & Oct 1st.
September 18th                               1:30 -3:30
Medication Safety and Review
Dare County Center
September 24                            
1:30 – 4:30
Caring Effectively COA Manteo Campus
September: 10, 17, 24 & Oct 1st.
October 1st
1:30 – 4:30
Caring Effectively COA Manteo Campus
September: 10, 17, 24 & Oct 1st.
October 3ird
Aging With Gusto  Currituck Cooperative Extension
Gail Sonnesso, MS, QDCS Task & Team approach to Memory Care 
October 10th                                         11am- 12pm
Program with Purpose Dare County Center                                                        Craft with Gail Exercise w/ Allison
October 17th  @ 10:30
Medication Safety and Review,
All Saints Church, Southern Shores 
October 30th  @ 10:30
Medication Safety and Review
Currituck Cooperative Extension Center
November 6th 3:30 -7p
Chamber Healthy Holidays Expo
Dare County Youth Center in Kill Devil Hills.
November 10th  @2:00
Candlelighting to Honor Remember & Care for our veterans and lost loved ones St. Andrews by the Sea, NH 
November 20th                             1:30-3pm
Memory Screenings Get a baseline                                                                                       Dare County Center
December 8th  @ 7pm
Violins & Voices a Classical Christmas Concert                                                                St. Andrews by the Sea, Nags Head
This is our only fundraiser please support us!
FEB 20, 2014                               10:30 -3:30 pm
Hopeful Aging Workshop with Hearthstone, Currituck Cooperative ExtensionNon-Pharmacologic Interventions for Persons with Dementia-Montessori-inspired Activity Programming (MAP™) for PWD
  

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Fw: News from Hearthstone Alzheimer Care's Research Division

 

----- Original Message -----

From: Gail E Sonnesso

To: gsonnesso@gmail.com

Cc: 'Angelo Sonnesso'

Sent: Friday, July 26, 2013 8:14 PM

Subject: FW: News from Hearthstone Alzheimer Care's Research Division

GEM is very excited to announce that we will be presenting a workshop in Feb. or March presented by Hearthstone staff to learn more about these techniques!

Best,
Gail

 

Featured Non-Pharmacological Intervention: Physical Demonstration (Modeling)

 

This section, a regular feature of this newsletter, highlights evidence-based, non-pharmacological interventions that research demonstrates are particularly engaging to persons with dementia.

 

Type of Intervention:

Approach

 

Goals:

Maintain independence, improve self-esteem, increase likelihood of success

 

Description:

Suppose you have a friend that aspires to be a magician. She is excited to tell you about a new trick she learned. She proceeds to explain verbally, and in great detail, how to make a playing card disappear and then reappear across the room. Midway through the explanation, you realize that you have no idea what she is talking about, and have no chance of doing the trick on your own. So you say to her, "Please show me how the trick works." She says, "Okay!" You watch her very closely, ask her to slow down a few

times, and by the end you say to her, "Now I get it! Wow, I'm going to do it this weekend to impress my in-laws."

 

There are many things that we learn to do through watching other people rather than listening to verbal instructions. Just think how challenging it would be to learn how to drive a car if you were simply told how to do it!

 

Like anyone else, persons with dementia also benefit from being shown how to do tasks. In fact, it's even more important for persons with dementia to be shown what to do, rather than told, because the ability to understand verbal information may be difficult for them. Researchers have learned that the ability to understand verbal information is progressively lost as the condition progresses.

 

 Read More About Modeling.. 

 

From: Hearthstone Alzheimer Care [mailto:research@thehearth.org]
Sent: Friday, July 26, 2013 2:04 PM
To: gsonnesso@gmail.com
Subject: News from Hearthstone Alzheimer Care's Research Division

 

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July 2013     Celebrating today, striving towards a brighter tomorrow   Hearthstone's Research Division has been hard at work over the last year, kicking off  two exciting clinical trials.  Now that these projects are well underway, we'd like to share with you the progress of Life's a Stage: The Scripted-IMPROVTM Project and the Hearthside Book ClubTM.   Current Clinical Trials at Hearthstone   Often readers associate Clinical Trials only with pharmaceutical research. This is not necessarily the case.  According to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), a clinical trial is "patient-oriented research ... conducted with human subjects (or on material of human origin ... and cognitive phenomena) for which an investigator ... directly interacts with human subjects."   Life's a Stage: The Scripted-IMPROVTM Project    The Scripted-IMPROVTM clinical trial aims to develop alternative methods to improve engagement and quality of life for persons with dementia. The specially designed   engagement drama approach called Scripted-IMPROVTM productions, is the intervention being studied. The Hearthstone Research Division is assessing the impact of this evidence-based drama approach on participants at assisted living facilities, nursing homes, and adult day centers in Massachusetts, New York, and Ohio.    The second year of the study has begun and our focus has shifted to developing the Scripted-IMPROVTM Drama Box. This will allow persons across the United States, and the world, to stage their own Scripted-IMPROVTM productions for persons with dementia.    The project's Creative Team (Evan Bass, Miranda Noelle Wilson, and Chris Gage) has completed writing two additional plays for the study. Ahoy Me Pirate Tale is set on a pirate ship, where a cabin boy hopes to win the love of a captured princess. Dream Hotel is a choose-your-own-adventure story, in which guests arrive at the luxurious Hotel Rêve. The participants are invited to meet interesting characters in different hotel suites, where exciting adventures await them. The plays have been piloted and tested at several facilities. The outcomes have been positive as have been the response from participants and staff.   Read More About Results...     Hearthside Book ClubTM Project    The Hearthside Book ClubTM clinical trial involves the evidence-based development of reading material for persons with dementia.  These age-appropriate materials are carefully designed to be effective and engaging for persons with varying levels of cognitive impairment.    The study has been progressing well. Thirty-two stories have been written on topics chosen by persons with dementia in focused groups. These stories cover a wide range of topics including The Beatles, Sailing, and Mexican Cuisine. Each book has been designed to help reading group participants achieve successful social interaction, reminiscence, and engagement.   Data collection has begun at the first two of six sites to be used for the Book Club. Research staff is working at Hearthstone New Horizons in Marlborough, Massachusetts, as well as the Mandel Adult Day Center in Cleveland, Ohio. Study participants are being provided with several new programming types and researchers are tracking the success of these interventions. To date, data collection is running smoothly and researchers have already observed positive outcomes from the programming.    Another focus of this study is the development of an innovative instrument to measure the type, frequency, and duration of communication between study participants. This measure will give researchers a view into how programming affects interaction during programming in this and other studies.        Featured Non-Pharmacological Intervention: Physical Demonstration (Modeling)   This section, a regular feature of this newsletter, highlights evidence-based, non-pharmacological interventions that research demonstrates are particularly engaging to persons with dementia.   Type of Intervention: Approach   Goals: Maintain independence, improve self-esteem, increase likelihood of success   Description: Suppose you have a friend that aspires to be a magician. She is excited to tell you about a new trick she learned. She proceeds to explain verbally, and in great detail, how to make a playing card disappear and then reappear across the room. Midway through the explanation, you realize that you have no idea what she is talking about, and have no chance of doing the trick on your own. So you say to her, "Please show me how the trick works." She says, "Okay!" You watch her very closely, ask her to slow down a few times, and by the end you say to her, "Now I get it! Wow, I'm going to do it this weekend to impress my in-laws."   There are many things that we learn to do through watching other people rather than listening to verbal instructions. Just think how challenging it would be to learn how to drive a car if you were simply told how to do it!   Like anyone else, persons with dementia also benefit from being shown how to do tasks. In fact, it's even more important for persons with dementia to be shown what to do, rather than told, because the ability to understand verbal information may be difficult for them. Researchers have learned that the ability to understand verbal information is progressively lost as the condition progresses.    Read More About Modeling..    Meet the Researcher:  Gregg Gorzelle,  Assistant Director of Research       Gregg Gorzelle, is the newest addition to the Hearthstone Research team and we are grateful to have him! Since early in January of 2013, Gregg has embraced his role as Associate Director of Research, diligently working as the Project Manager for the Hearthside Book Club. In addition to project management, Gregg is also the chairperson of our Institutional Review Board (IRB), assists in proposal writing, and handles other day-to-day administrative tasks.    In an interview with Gregg about his experience with Hearthstone over the last seven months, we talked about what he finds to be the most intellectually exciting part of his job. He shared that, "it would have to be the challenge of dealing with so many different aspects within the research arena. With responsibilities ranging from grant management to budgeting, collaborating on proposal writing to working hands-on with persons with dementia, there is always something new and stimulating happening in the Research Division."    Gregg mentioned that the interaction he has with research participants -people living with dementia- is what he considers the most interesting part of his work. "There is nothing better than seeing people participate in programming and enjoy themselves in a meaningful way."   Read More About Gregg..       Links to Other Hearthstone Initiatives   The Hearthstone Institute organizes educational events and trains individual organizations on non-pharmacologic interventions and the "I'm Still Here" approach to address the challenges and meet the needs of people living with Alzheimer's and related dementias. The Institute offers trainings for organizations, as well as public course offerings. Learning for Life is a multi-dimensional school, employing Montessori methodology and the latest research on Procedural Memory Systems. Participanting students select their own subjects of interest within an organized and supportive curriculum of learning.  The "I'm Still Here" Foundation raises funds to develop non-pharmacological approaches to providing people with dementia the opportunity to have a life worth living. The celebrated success of its ARTZ programs and the It Takes a Village program, aims to change the overall public narrative of dementia in positive ways. ARTZ, a major program of the Foundation, links artists and cultural institutions to people living with dementia and their care partners. Influenced by science and sociology, ARTZ uses artistic experiences to unlock creativity, generate new memories, strengthen relationships, and enrich the lives of participants. Its major programs include Meet Me at the Museum and Meet Me at the Movies. Issue: 2     John Zeisel, President Hearthstone Alzheimer Care, Ltd.   Upcoming Events:    September 18, 2013 Book  Signing at ATRIA Atria Maplewood Place 295 Broadway, Malden, MA 02148   Contact: Lisa B. Shapiro  781-324-4999 x202  at ATRIA for more info    September 26, 2013  Presentation at Mass ALFA: Design and Person  Centered Care The DCU Center  50 Foster Street,  Worcester, MA 01608    Contact: Mass ALFA  for More Info    Featured Publications:    I'm Still Here by John Zeisel, 2009      Non-Pharmalogical Treatment for Alzheimer's Disease: A mind-brain approach By Zeisel & Raia, 1999    Is Art Therapy the Answer for Dementia? Featuring John Zeisel     Michael Skrajner, Director of Research & Innovation      Upcoming Events:   August 12-16, 2013  I'm Still Here Approach to Programming Vantage Point Retirement Living Maryland & Pennsylvania   **Private Training**   November 5 & 6, 2013   I'm Still Here Approach to Programming   The New Jersey Hospital Association Princeton, NJ    Public Training: Click Here for Registration Info       Publications:      "Training Nursing Home Residents to Serve as Group Activity Leaders: Lessons learned and preliminary results from the RAP project" By Skrajner, Haberman, Camp, Tusick, Frentiu & Gorzelle 2012    Resident-Assisted Montessori Programming (RAMP): use of a small group reading activity run by persons with dementia in adult day health care and long-term care settings. By Skrajner & Camp 2007     Handbook of Assessment in Clinical Gerontology: Cognitive assessment in late stage dementia  Chapter 20: By Camp, Skrajner, Lee & Judge 2010      The Hearthstone Research Division aims to be a global leader in research on non-pharmacological interventions for persons with dementia. By developing, rigorously testing, and disseminating such interventions, we strive to improve the quality of life for persons with dementia around the world.    Hearthstone Alzheimer Care, Research Division,   130 New Boston Street, Suite 103, Woburn, MA 01801      research@thehearth.org   1-800-579-6042  http://www.thehearth.org/research.html

 

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