Dementia Care Professionals

09/04/2025

09/02/2025

Last free virtual dementia caregiver workshop of the year. Registration open worldwide.
Please keep in mind that you must attend the first two workshops and at least two others, for a minimum of 4 out of the 6.
Please register with the person named in the flyer.
Space is limited!

09/02/2025

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08/28/2025

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08/28/2025

What a travesty. This is what we pay a bilingual person to care for another human-being, full-time. This is one-on-one specialized care. This may include light housekeeping, bathing a person, helping them use the bathroom or changing briefs, preparing food, feeding them if they are unable to themselves. This is companionship, taking them for walks, driving them to appointments or taking them to run errands or to dialysis or chemo. This could mean transferring from bed to wheelchair or keeping someone with dementia safe and engaged. It is absurd that we should pay someone so little for this one-on-one private care. Our industry looks down on because they come and go like through a revolving door. Why is that? They aren’t respected for what they do. They are not properly trained for specialized assignments, especially those pertaining to clients living with . $14 and hour to provide private one-on-one care for another human-being, full-time is not even a living wage for someone with their own family to care for. We ask a lot of caregivers, without the proper training, then throw them to the wolves for leaving their jobs only to try again with a new facility or agency, only to be disrespected, overworked, underpaid and without adequately providing them proper training to set them up for success. Why don’t we honor them and provide education and training so they can perform their jobs with dignity? Why don’t we offer them the same recognition, store and venue promotions and discounts, we offer to veterans and first-responders and sometimes teachers? They need the discounts and breaks more, with what they get paid. They are the first-responders to the sick, frail, aging, and vulnerable. They do the things that the care-receiver’s own family often doesn’t want to do or are unable to do because they work or have other family members to care for or may be too sick or frail themselves. Where is their recognition? Why is it that direct human care and direct human service jobs get so little but are expected to do so much?

08/27/2025

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07/30/2025

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07/19/2025

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07/02/2025

I hate to think what losing coverage and programs in and the long term help from is going to do to families caring for someone living with dementia. My thoughts are with you during this tumultuous time of uncertainty.