LOCATION: Meeker Memorial Hospital – Conference Center (Lower Level) (612 S. Sibley Ave. Litchfi eld, MN)

REGISTER ONLINE AT: meekermemorial.org/calendar

FOR MORE INFORMATION CALL Barb Alslaben, Lutheran Social Services (LSS) Program Coordinator and Caregiver Support & Respite at (320) 221-3747.

AUDIENCE: Family caregivers and professionals working with individuals living with dementia and their caregivers.Cost: There will be a free will donation for all participants to cover lunch or materials plus a $10 fee for CEU recipients.

WORKSHOP AGENDA 9:30 – 10:00 a.m. – Registration

10:00 – 10:15 a.m. – Introductions

10:15 – 10:45 a.m. – Kate Selseth, Alzheimer’s Association Update – Medic Alert/Safe Return and Meeker County Sheriff’s Offi ce – Project Lifesaver

10:45 – 11:45 a.m. – Pam Radunz “Communication is Key” Communicating with someone who has dementia or Alzheimer’s.

11:45 – 12:30 p.m. – Lunch

12:30 – 1:30 p.m. – Keynote Speaker: Lynda Monk, MSW, RSW, CPCC Self-Care for the Caregiver – Live Webinar

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Caring for a loved one who is suffering from dementia or another illness can be meaningful, exhausting, frustrating, lonely and heartbreaking all at once, depending on the situation. As caregivers, we need to fi ll our own emotional cups and take care of ourselves in order to do and be our best as caregivers to our loved ones who require our support. Self-care is required to ensure we also tend to our own health, wellness and replenishment needs in the midst of it all.

During this 1-hour Care for the Caregiver webinar, you will have the chance to learn, refl ect and connect with others in support of your own well-being as a caregiver.

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Lynda Monk MSW, RSW, CPCC

• Understand Alzheimer’s Association resources and safety programs available to Litchfi eld area residents.

• Learn communication techniques to communicate with someone who has dementia or Alzheimer’s.

• Explore the nature of caregiving• Consider the risks and warning signs of caregiver

burnout (awareness is prevention!)• Refl ect on your own self-care story as a caregiver• Discover key self-care strategies to support your

emotional, physical, psychological and spiritual well-being, balance and renewal.

• Experience journal writing as a healing way to come home to yourself, as you care for others

Upon completion of the workshop, participants will be eligible for 3.0 contact hours of continuing education. This workshop has been designed to meet MN Board of Nursing continuing education requirements of 3 CEUs. Attendees are responsible for determining whether this activity meets the requirements for acceptable continuing education.

Sponsored by the Litchfi eld Area ACT on Alzheimer’s Action Team - building a dementia-friendly community and in-kind support of the Meeker Memorial Hospital & Clinics, Lutheran

Social Services, Center for Senior Behavioral Health, Alzheimer’s Association, Harmony River, Meeker County Public Health, Meeker County Area Agency on Aging, CCT, Litchfi eld Chamber, Cedar Crest, Lakeview Ranch.

PRESENTER BIOS: KATHRYN SELSETH Kathryn Selseth, MBA/HCA, MPH – Alzheimer’s Association Minnesota-North Dakota Program Manager Western Minnesota Kate’s professional career has been focused in service to persons with disabilities, caregivers, and older adults. She provides basic dementia resource workshops to community members as well as training for direct care staff in residential facilities in the areas of communication and memory loss, and dementia related behaviors. She has worked in long term care residential settings in a variety of capacities most of her career. She is experienced in long term care housing management, community program development, and individual care resource coordination.

WORKSHOP LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

MEEKER COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE – PROJECT LIFESAVER

PAM RADUNZPam Radunz is the Resident Services Director at Harmony River Living Center in Hutchinson, MN. She holds a BS- Art Education, MS – Gerontology, and a Facilitator Certifi cate for Respecting Health Care Choices all from SCSU. She is a Pres. Homes DOVE (Dementia Orientation Values Education) Educator/Trainer, ACT on Alzheimer’s Member and dementia Friends Champion, Certifi ed Activity Director, Registered Nursing Assistant. She has provided training within health care facilities and the community on various topics of dementia, various living options for elderly, support services for care givers and social wellness/activities. Pam is professionally active in her community in such programs as Meeker McLeod/ Sibley Workplace Wellness Consortium Leadership Team, Meeker Area Care Connections and Sr. Providers of McLeod County. Pam has worked in various roles of health care service for elderly in her 30 year career.

KEYNOTE SPEAKER – LIVE WEBINARLYNDA MONKLynda Monk, MSW, RSW, CPCC, Self-Care & Journal Writing Coach, Speaker & Author Lynda is a Registered Social Worker, Certifi ed Professional Co-Active Coach and Director of the International Association for Journal Writing, IAJW.org. She is the co-author of Writing Alone Together: Journalling in a Circle of Women for Creativity, Compassion and Connections, as well as co-author of the international bestselling book Inspiration for a Woman’s Soul: Choosing Happiness. She is the author of Life Source Writing™: A Refl ective Journaling Practice for Self-Discovery, Self-Care, Wellness and Creativity, as well as the producer of the Creative Wellness Guided Meditations CD.

Lynda has been teaching on the topics of self-care for caregivers for over 20 years, and specializes in burnout prevention, compassion fatigue, care for caregivers, stress management, mindfulness and writing for wellness. She also has personal experience with caregiving as her mother was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s last year and sadly her father passed away in September 2017, from Alzheimer’s disease. She lives with her family on Salt Spring Island, BC, Canada where she tries her best to integrate self-care into each day.

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Social Services, Center for Senior Behavioral Health,