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LeaderShift Intensive
What will the future hold for people living with dementia?
Who will shape that future and what role will you play?
What disrupting forces might you encounter?
How do we deal with the uncertainty?
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“I hope leaders will design systems with me, not for me”
Laurie Scherrer, Advocate Living with Dementia
LeaderShift Preparation Apply Today
LiveWell’s LeaderShift Intensive will prepare you and your organization to lead the way for progressive change.
Join leaders from across the country and Europe who are exploring the impact people living with dementia are having on disrupting and reshaping healthcare and other social structures.
This experience is for leaders and teams interested in Shifting…
How they think about and engage people living with dementia
Who they learn from and collaborate with
Perspectives about dementia as a disability
Attitudes about empowerment and the practices that support it
How leadership practices, strategies, and services can evolve
Who Should Attend?
Leadership Teams who are:
Considering or have created “memory care” or living environments for people with dementia
Committed to reducing the stigma of aging with dementia
Promoting the ability of people to live well with dementia
Desiring improved team dynamics, dialogue and action
Navigating transformation that empowers and engages the people who live, work and visit in their community
Leading through increasing complexity, disruption and uncertainty
What You’ll Gain
You will benefit the most by coming with a project or challenge that you are working on and by attending with one or more colleagues, as a large portion of time is dedicated to applying what you are learning in the program to your work challenges and projects. Participants will explore and apply:
Participatory action research frameworks that engage people living with dementia to take actions to improve their own wellbeing
Participatory Action Research
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A participatory action research (PAR) framework is based on reflection, data collection, and action that aims to improve health and reduce health inequities through involving people who, in turn, take actions to improve their own health.
PAR seeks to understand and improve the world by changing it. At its heart collective, self-reflective inquiry that participants undertake, so they can understand and improve upon the practices in which they participate and the situations in which they find themselves. The reflective process is directly linked to action, influenced by understanding of history, culture, and embedded in social relationships. The process of PAR should be empowering and lead to people having increased control over their lives.
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Dialogue education as a framework to develop your team’s capacity to sustain future improvements in dementia supports and services
Compensatory strategies developed by people living with dementia that may inform future environmental or programmatic re-design efforts
International approaches that use human rights and disabilities rights to improve the resiliency and wellbeing of people affected by dementia
To deepen the experience, participants will develop a relationship with and learn from a Learning Partner who is living with dementia.
What you will gain at LeaderShift Apply Today
LeaderShift is the first program of its kind designed collaboratively with advocates living with dementia,
our design team includes:
Bob Savage; Advocate Living with Dementia & Co-Founder, Connecticut Dementia Peer Coalition
Laurie Scherrer, Advocate Living with Dementia
Teresa Webb, Founder of the Frontotemporal Dementia Advocacy Resource Network (FTDARN)
Dr. Anne Kenny, Geriatrician, Researcher & Author
Michael Smith, President & CEO, LiveWell
Jenna Weiss, Director of Learning, LiveWell
LeaderShift is a unique program
LiveWell
LiveWell began its work promoting the wellbeing of people affected by dementia in 1990 as the Alzheimer’s Resource Center. We remain committed to social change that can transform our communities to become places where the worth and contributions of people living with dementia and their connections to others are upheld.