7:30-8:30 am
Registration/Continental Breakfast/Exhibitors

8:30-10:00 am
Title TBA
Monica Lauren Willis-Parker MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Geriatrics and Gerontology,  Emory University School of Medicine,  Clinic at Wesley Woods, Atlanta, GA.

• Description TBA

9:30 - 10:15 am
Review common brain changes
Teepa Snow, MS, OTR/L, FAOTA

• Learner will describe symptoms that commonly occur with Alzheimer’s disease/ dementia  based on brain damage.

10:15 – 11:45 AM
Optimizing Dementia Care: Your Approach and Knowledge Matters! 
Teepa Snow, MS, OTR/L, FAOTA, Occupational Therapist, Dementia Care & Dementia Education Specialist, Positive Approach, LLC, Efland, NC.

• This program will be divided into three segments. During this first session, the relationship between lost and preserved brain function and symptoms and behaviors that are common among individuals living with dementia will be explored and discussed.

11:45-12:45 PM
Lunch and Speaker, Title TBA
Ginny Helms, V.P. of Programs for the Georgia Chapter of the Alzheimer’s Association.

• Description TBA

1:00-2:30 PM
Title TBA
Teepa Snow, MS, OTR/L, FAOTA, Occupational Therapist, Dementia Care & Dementia Education Specialist, Positive Approach, LLC, Efland, NC.

• This second session will on techniques and strategies that are effective in providing care based on lost and retained abilities in the early stages of various dementias.

2:45-4:15 PM
Title TBA
Teepa Snow, MS, OTR/L, FAOTA, Occupational Therapist, Dementia Care & Dementia Education Specialist, Positive Approach, LLC, Efland, NC.

• Teepa’s final session will address typical behavioral and care issues at mid to later stages and strategies and techniques for care providers.

4:15-4:30 pm
Q & A/Evaluations