TEAM END ALZ
Join Team End ALZ Today!
- Boston Marathon®
- Boston’s Run to Remember
- Falmouth Road Race
- Mine Falls Trail Running Festival (details coming soon!)
- Run Your Own Race
Team End ALZ is the official athletics program of the Alzheimer’s Association Massachusetts/New Hampshire Chapter. The program supports individuals of all abilities to raise funds for Alzheimer’s research, care and advocacy while completing a running or endurance event. Whatever your goal, we can help you achieve it while collectively working towards our mission: to end Alzheimer’s disease.
During this time of staying physically distant, Team End ALZ provides a meaningful and safe way to support our mission. Join the Falmouth Road Race At-Home Edition or sign up to Run Your Own Race virtually!
Contact Team End ALZ Manager Marissa Bresnahan at mbresnahan@alz.org or call 617-868-6718 with any questions!
Thank you for your dedication to the cause and helping us #ENDALZ
James Wessler
Paul S. Stuka
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.
Barry Greene
Thomas A. Croswell