Right at Home Boston and North Hosts Dementia Live

For more information please contact:

Celeste Begley, Community Relations Director

PHONE: 781-548-0017

EMAIL: cbegley@rightathomemass.com

{MEDIA ALERT}--SOMERVILLE, MA November 29, 2016

Right at Home Boston and North will host a unique opportunity in the community for care professionals to briefly, yet movingly, experience the challenges and struggles of a person living with dementia. Right at Home will facilitate Dementia Live™ on December 8th at the Cambridge Somerville Elder Services Dementia Conference titled—Dementia Awareness: Some Signs and Solutions. The conference will be held at the Holiday Inn Bunker Hill Area in Somerville, MA.

The Dementia Live™ program is the newest tool in the powerful arena of sensitivity awareness training being used for the booming number of direct care staff, family caregivers, healthcare professionals, and college and university students. “We are at the crossroads of understanding aging and dementia; this understanding is not an option but a necessity for every member of our society. It is a worldwide phenomenon affecting every level of our society”, states Pam Brandon, President and Founder of the AGE-u-cate Training Institute. “We must equip those who are caring for and serving our aging population to better understand their challenges. We are living in a fast-aging world.”

Dementia Live™ was designed by a team of dementia, sensitivity and awareness, and professional development experts from the nationally recognized AGE-u-cate® Training Institute headquartered in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex. Using specialized gear within a safe, experiential setting, Dementia Live™ gives participants a real-life simulation of what it may be like to live with dementia. After completion of the program, participants will gain greater awareness and understanding of the continuous struggles affecting persons with dementia.