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Communicating with Your Loved One: Strategies for Care Partners Impacted by Dementia
As an individual goes through their journey with dementia, there are changes that can impact their comprehension and expression. These changes in communication can often cause frustration among care partners. This webinar will share information about the changes some individuals with dementia may experience in communication, and will offer strategies and tips for families to communicate more effectively with a loved one with dementia.
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Aging in Place
What’s the best way to successfully age in place? This webinar will review ESOP’s newest homeownership workshop: “Aging in Place: Know Your Housing Options.” We’ll discuss how you can assess your loved one’s home for safety, accessibility and affordability; how your loved one can use their home equity to keep their home; ways to explore the many housing options available to your loved one; additional benefits; and legal and tax issues. We’ll also share an overview of Ohio’s first nonprofit real estate agency, and the many services offered to help both first time homebuyers purchase their first home and older adults transition out of their last homes.
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My Mother's Caregiver: Here to Serve
Writer and photographer Mark A. Lee joins us for a guest blog, highlighting his current role as his mother's caregiver and excerpting his upcoming book on his past experiences caregiving for his father, "Raising Dad"
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Navigating the Different Stages of Alzheimer’s Disease as a Caregiver
Alzheimer's Disease develops over time, causing changes in the brain that affect a person's memory, thinking and behavior. According to the Alzheimer’s Association, more than 5 million Americans are living with Alzheimer's Disease, and 16 million Americans serve as unpaid caregivers to loved ones with Alzheimer’s Disease or related dementias. With every change to a loved one’s health as the disease progresses over time, these 16 million caregivers are along for the journey right there with their loved one.
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COVID and Quarantine: The Mental Health Consequences
As the COVID-19 pandemic has reshaped our world, it has also made us reevaluate how we understand mental health. This webinar will share tips on recognizing the role COVID-19 and quarantine risk factors play in the mental health disorders of our loved ones, how to become familiar with symptoms of PTSD and other mental health disorders that are linked to quarantine, and ways to help our loved ones cope.
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