Birdie - Profile of a Person With Alzheimer's

Healthcare Speaker, Elaine K. Sanchez, http://ElaineKSanchez.com, shares a story from "Dorothy's Journal", about Birdie, a resident in an Alzheimer's facility. This excerpt is from Elaine's "Creating a Caring Community" keynote and workshop presented at the Mississippi Alzheimer's State Conference, in August, 2011.

Elaine's "Creating a Caring Community" program, which is approved by the NAB for 3.75 CEU's for long-term care administrators and nurses in most states, focuses on helping family and professional caregivers develop a personalized caregiver survival strategy while coping with the emotional stress of caring for those who can no longer care for themselves.




Her presentations are based on her unflinchingly honest and uproariously funny book, "Letters from Madelyn, Chronicles of a Caregiver" and "Dorothy's Journal", a book in progress.

In this excerpt she is profiling the behavior of Birdie, one of the residents on the Alzheimer's ward in the nursing home where Dorothy Tucker worked as a nurse. Through telling similar real-life stories, Elaine sheds light on the behavior of persons with Alzheimer's and other dementia-related diseases, and she helps attendees understand how to separate a person's behavior from the disease.

Elaine frequently delivers keynote speeches, workshops, and seminars for healthcare organizations and at family caregiver conferences and gerontology conferences. Family and professional caregivers appreciate her honest and compassionate approach to dealing with caregiver anger, guilt, depression, and grief. Her caregiver keynote, entitled "Finding Hope and Humor in Caregiving" is great for after lunch, after dinner, or anytime the audience is in need of a good belly laugh and a big jolt of energy. People say she is a combination between Garrison Keillor and Irma Bombeck, but don't let the entertainment value of her presentation fool you - the message for caregivers is serious.

To book Elaine as a speaker for your event, contact Jo Cavender at Speakers on Healthcare: 503-345-9164, Jo@SpeakersonHealthcare.com. For free articles and caregiver resources, to rent or purchase Elaine's caregiver videos, visit her website at http://www.Elaine@EKSanchez.com

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