Once again,
Kim Hegwood and Laura Wayman, the Dementia Whisperer get together. This time the discussion is one to help caregivers.
Title: Making it Through The “HOLI-DAZE”
A few of the questions that Kim will be discussing with Laura include:
1. Why is it Important to Keep Routines?
2. Is it Important to play and sing CHRISTMAS CAROLS OR TRADITIONAL MUSIC?
3. Why Keep Traditions?
4. Why practice Dementia Aware Communication and A Loving care Approach?
5. Why It Is So Important to Ask for Help?
Connect with Laura Wayman
Website:www.laurawayman.com
Email:help@laurawayman.com
Facebook: Facebook.com/TheDementiaWhisperer/
Instagram:@thedementiawhisperer
LinkedIn:Linkedin.com/in/thedementiawhisperer/
Bio:
Laura Wayman, The Dementia Whisperer, is an accomplished keynote speaker, international best-selling author, trainer, consultant, and a dedicated Gerontologist. (A.A. Degree in Gerontology, Social Services Designee Certification) She has presented keynote speeches, workshops, in-services, classes, training, and seminars across the U.S. on the significant subject of Dementia Care, continuing to share her essential message of “raising dementia awareness” worldwide. Ms. Wayman can provide eight CE’s for RCFE Administrators License, and four CE’s for RN’s and LVN’s through the California Board of Nursing. Her audiences have often given her the highest evaluations, singing her praises months and even years after her compassionate presentations. Each presentation is a representation of how much Ms. Wayman enjoys her work. She is confident with every opportunity that she is “living her vision” of changing the dementia caregiving focus, one person, one family, one organization at a time. Ms. Wayman grabs her audiences’ full attention in the first few minutes, and holds it throughout, with interesting stories, humor, and relevant details that support and reinforce the message being delivered. Her material will provide the opportunity for audience members to feel a full range of emotion, from tears to laughter, and comfortably relate to sometimes serious and disturbing information, leaving them with a new sense of confidence, purpose, and direction.
Books or Other Products that would interest viewers:
Ms. Wayman can provide four CE’s for RCFE Administrators License, and four CE’s for RN’s and LVN’s through the California Board of Nursing, available online for purchase on her website.
Book: A Loving Approach to Dementia Care, 3rd edition, published by Johns Hopkins University Press.
Author Bio
Kim Hegwood
Managing Attorney
Kim Hegwood is the Founder and Managing Attorney of Your Legacy Legal Care®, a Houston-based estate planning and elder law firm she established in 1998. A graduate of South Texas College of Law, Kim was inspired to focus her practice on elder law and estate planning after watching her own grandparents struggle with the challenges of aging. With nearly 30 years of experience, she helps families with wills, trusts, powers of attorney, Medicaid planning, and asset protection.
Kim is a Certified Dementia Practitioner and a member of the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys, and her firm has been named Best Trust & Estate Law Firm by the Houston Chronicle. A mother of three, she spends her free time with her children and grandchildren and volunteers with several local charities.
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