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5 Things You Do NOT Want to Do…And a Few You Should! Support for Caregivers: You Don’t Have to do it Alone

Bill Cohen, Certified Senior Advisor (CSA), will cover the following topics, followed by a question and answer support session:

  • Caregiving: A Personal Journey with My Mom
  • Managing Dementia Care and Behaviors
  • Taking Care as a Caregiver
  • Support for Caregivers: You Don’t Have to do it Alone
  • Turning Lemons into Lemonade (or Limoncello): how a former caregiver turned his personal loss into his passion and encore career.
  • 5 Things You Do NOT Want to Do…And a Few You Should!

RSVP by Wednesday, August 24

To Register:
571-267-1707
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Bill Cohen is a caregiver support group leader and speaker, an Alzheimer’s Association and HOPE Dementia Support Groups volunteer, Certified Senior Advisor (CSA)®, and the owner of Cohen Caregiving Support Consultants. His loving and talented mother, Sheila, lost her home to Hurricane Katrina. Then, she lost her health, ability to create beautiful art and, ultimately, her life due to Alzheimer’s. For almost 10 years, Bill was her primary caregiver and advocate, not just her elder son. Bill shares his story and journey with his late mom, answers specific questions and concerns, and provides advice on how to manage care and behaviors, and how to practice self-care and prevention. Bill has completed multiple caregiving and aging courses through the Alzheimer’s Association and the Society for Certified Senior Advisors™️, has a financial services and government background, and earned business degrees from Boston and Portland State Universities. He has lived in the Portland, Oregon area for over 37 years with his wife of 41 years, Lori.

Details

Date:
August 25, 2022
Time:
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
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Venue

Great Falls Assisted Living
1121 Reston Ave.
Herndon, VA 20170 United States
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