Alzheimer's Disease, Dementias and Healthy Aging

November Newsletter

A Special Virtual Education Series

This series if offered by the National Alzheimer's Association in recognition of National Family Caregivers Month

NOVEMBER 9 at 12 PM ET

Keeping Connected Through the Holidays: Tips for Caregivers

The holidays are often filled with sharing, laughter, and memories, but they can also bring stress, disappointment, or sadness, especially for people living with Alzheimer's and their caregivers. This program will provide tips and ideas for making the holidays safe and enjoyable. Click here to register.

NOVEMBER 15 at 6 PM ET

Safety and Memory Challenges

Dementia-related changes impacts how to think about safety. This program teaches strategies to encourage a safe environment and lifestyle for those affected with memory challenges. Click here to register.

NOVEMBER 16 at 12 PM ET

Managing Money: A Caregiver's Guide to Finances

This program will help you learn about the costs of caregiving and the benefits of early planning, and teach you how to avoid financial abuse and fraud, start a conversation about finances, assess financial and legal needs, and find support. Click here to register.

NOVEMBER 29 at 12 PM ET

Dementia Conversations

Learn how to have productive and successful conversations with your loved one, family and others about some of the most challenging topics when caring for someone with memory challenges.

Click here to register.

The Conversation Project

The Conversation Project® is a public engagement initiative of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI). The goal is both simple and transformative: to help everyone talk about their wishes for care through the end of life, so those wishes can be understood and respected. Resources available through this project help people communicate about the kind of care they want and what they wish to avoid as they age. IHI believes that the place to begin this conversation is at the kitchen table with the people who matter most to us, not in the intensive care unit. The Conversation Project offers free tools, guidance, and resources to begin talking with those who matter most about your and their wishes.

Hearing Loss & Dementia: What's the Connection?

What is hearing loss, and how does hearing change with age? How is hearing loss related to dementia, and how might hearing loss impact thinking abilities? Jennifer Deal, PhD addresses these questions, and discusses what we should do if we have concerns about our hearing.

The Memory Matters Virtual Talk Series is organized by the Johns Hopkins Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (www.alzresearch.org).

The Vermont Department of Health to support Community Violence Prevention. This grant opportunity is designed to fund programs that address the causes of youth and community violence and increase community capacity to implement approaches for human services, public health, and public safety collaborator including programs that address:

• Illegal drug activity, including programs that address prevention and recovery
• Gangs
• Human trafficking 
• Gender-based violence, or any programs that address both healthy and unhealthy behaviors in intimate partner, sexual, and domestic relationships 
• Guns and gun safety
• Bullying, hazing and harassment
• Hate crimes including bias and discrimination

At least $4.75 million in available funds over three years. We intend to fund up to 15 programs, with each program not to exceed $150,000. See link to the RFP below. Applications due DECEMBER 1, 2023.

ZZZs and Teens: The science of adolescent sleep in the ABCD Study

Wednesday, November 8, 2023

5:00 - 6:00 PM ET

The Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study® is hosting a webinar on youth sleep and its relationship to health and behavior using data from the ABCD Study®. Researchers found that children who got insufficient sleep had more mental health and behavioral challenges than those who got sufficient sleep. These included impulsivity, stress, depression, anxiety, aggressive behavior, and thinking problems. The team also explored the impact of social media on sleep, discrimination-based disruption of sleep and brain development. Join scientists working with data from the ABCD Study to understand youth sleep and its relationship to health and behavior.