One million people with Alzheimer’s or a related dementia live alone.
Living Alone with Alzheimer’s: A Solutions Summit
The Living Alone with Alzheimer’s day-long summit seeks to educate and share best practice about how people are living alone with cognitive impairment and convenes colleagues from the field who have developed supportive solutions.
Living Alone Summit Schedule
Past Meetings
The Living Alone Summit agenda will include conversations with persons who are navigating life with Alzheimer’s or a related dementia, an overview of the numbers and types of single person households they live in, health and social risk factors such as social isolation, and ethical dilemmas to consider. Solutions providers from social services, health care and technology sectors will be featured.
Who should attend?
Persons living with dementia, caregivers, administrators and staff from care communities, Alzheimer/dementia care providers, dementia friendly community leaders, health care systems, elder abuse prevention efforts, elder care managers and attorneys, hospital emergency department staff and organizations directing care systems for persons dually eligible for Medicare and Medicaid.
Everyone can be part of the solution.
FACULTY
Mike Splaine
Principal
Splaine Consulting
https://splaineconsulting.com/ourteam/
Dr. Stephen G. Post
Bioethicist, Author
http://stephengpost.com/
Elizabeth Gould
Senior Research Public Health Analyst
RTI International
https://www.linkedin.com/in/elizabeth-gould-b8880057/
Rajiv Mehta
CEO, Founder
Atlas of Caregiving
https://atlasofcaregiving.com/aoc/our-team/#rajiv
Kate Gordon
Director
Splaine Consulting
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kategordon1/
About the Convener
Splaine Consulting (www.splaineconsulting.com) specializes in policy and advocacy consulting on health, public health and long-term care issues at the local, state, US and international levels. Our firm focuses on helping clients to secure their policy objectives and measurably improve their organization for the long term. Through advocate training, we transform the passion of professionals and cause champions into strong grassroots advocacy networks, and our policy analysis work drives advocates to achieve definable and winnable policy solutions.
We have long, deep and broad experience in the Alzheimer’s community. We think of ourselves as Alzpreneurs℠ as we seek out the best to partner and focus energy in the Alzheimer’s field on unique and less developed areas of practice and policy.