The Alzheimer’s Association AIM Advocacy Forum
The Alzheimer’s Association AIM Advocacy Forum is the nation’s premier Alzheimer’s disease advocacy event. Join more than 1,000 advocates in Washington, D.C. to advocate for research, and care and support services. Because of your support we’ve had two consecutive years of historic funding increases at the National Institutes of Health for Alzheimer’s disease research funding. It’s where you need to be to continue playing a crucial role in the fight against the disease. Join us June 17th-June 19th, 2018!
Massachusetts
Join us on May 15th, 2018 for our Annual Alzheimer’s State Advocacy Day. This is the largest mobilization of Alzheimer’s advocates in the Commonwealth.
Enjoy breakfast and coffee with us, hear a legislative briefing, and share your story with state legislators. Click below to register.
For questions, please email Ayah Roda at aroda@alz.org.
Pain has an impact on behavior, function and quality of life for people living with dementia, but is one of the most mismanaged conditions. The challenges of understanding and treating acute and chronic pain for those with dementia are complex and often overlooked. Identifying and treating pain requires the ability to listen to what individuals are communicating through behaviors and body language. To treat pain for someone with dementia we must look beyond the words. This keynote offers the opportunity to explore strategies for identifying and managing pain including the use of standardized tools for assessment and monitoring along with the use of medications for individualizing comfort measures.
Melanie Bunn, GNP, MS, RN, is a Consulting Associate at the Duke University School of Nursing, Certified Trainer, Coach and Consultant for Teepa Snow’s Positive Approach to Care, and has her own education consulting company, Bunn Consulting. She received her degree in Nursing from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Master’s degree in Family Health Nursing from Clemson University and a Post-Master’s Gerontological Nurse Practitioner Certificate from Duke University. She has provided primary care to older people in a variety of settings including retirement homes, long term care nursing, assisted living facilities, hospitals, and in the home as a gerontological nurse practitioner, clinical nurse specialist and staff nurse. In 2014, Ms. Bunn was awarded the Dr. Ewald W. Busse Award by the NC Division of Aging and Adult Services Department of Health and Human Services for her contributions to improving the care of older adults with dementia and their families.
James Wessler
Paul S. Stuka
Barry Greene
Thomas A. Croswell