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No Place Like Home: Fostering Normalcy for People Living with Dementia Still a Public Health Priority
World Alzheimer’s Day, on September 21, serves as a reminder that, in the 11 years since the World Health Organization declared dementia a public health priority, LiveWell, in Connecticut is one of only a few organizations in the United States that are investing in physical and societal...
Allow Nature to Inspire You
Allow Nature to Inspire You By Jenna Weiss R-DMT, LNHA, Director of Learning at LiveWell “When we ask nature, first we quiet our human cleverness. Then we ask, and then we listen. The answer is the echo that bounces off of the land herself. With the solution in hand, we always end the circle by...
Yes, You Can Live Life Well With Dementia
The phrase living well and dementia don’t traditionally arrive in the same sentence. It’s time to change that.
According to my friend and colleague Bob Savage, who is self-proclaimed ‘living well with Alzheimer’s”, the first step is to listen.
4 Surprising Benefits to Playing Music
Researchers from across the country extoll the benefits of playing a musical instrument like it’s the physical fitness of brain work-outs.
Do Brain Games Really Work?
If you are a professional who is looking for community supports for your clients to access post diagnosis, or like me who is interested in preventative health, LiveWell is excited to launch its new summer semester of courses and workshops focused on well-being.
 Why focus on well-being?
Why Focus On Well-being? by Jenna Weiss, R-DMT, LNHA, Director of Learning LiveWell Feeling good in everyday life is an achievable goal. With life’s continual ups and downs, its good to know that people who are able to experience a good quality of life because of difficult events demonstrate a...
Intergenerational Opening Minds through Arts (OMA) program
Intergenerational Opening Minds through Arts (OMA) program Featured in International Federation on Ageing, AFIX Newsletter Winter 2019/2020 By: Erica DeFrancesco & Tom Hayden Over the years, LiveWell, a nonprofit focused on caring for individuals at all stages of Alzheimer’s disease and...
LiveWell Alliance Granted Funding to Expand Memory Cafes in Connecticut
LiveWell Alliance Granted Funding to Expand Memory Cafes in ConnecticutExciting news! LiveWell has been awarded a prestigious grant to develop, support and sustain a memory café network across Connecticut. A memory café is a social gathering for people living with early Alzheimer’s, or other...
More Than Memory Care
People are more than the problems that their diagnosis creates or their need for care. We believe that language shapes intention and that the places we chose to live in should be labeled by our aspirations for living not the challenges to our memory. Most assisted living and nursing home providers...
Quinnipiac Nursing Professor Awarded Grant for Dementia Research
Quinnipiac Nursing Professor Awarded $255K NIH/NIA Grant for Dementia Research Sheila Molony, professor in the School of Nursing at Quinnipiac, has been awarded a $255,873 National Institutes of Health/National Institute on Aging grant. The NIH/NIA grant is to fund “Holistic Evaluation to Advance...
Memory Book Project Unites Students, People Living With Dementia
Memory Book Project Unites Students, People Living With Dementia Most of us take our memories for granted. From happy times on vacation to sad times losing a pet, we accumulate memories from a young age and summon them at will. They are the essence of our lives. For some, the time will come when...
February 2020 LeadingAge Catalyst
February 2020 LeadingAge CatalystLEADINGAGE CATALYST | FEBRUARY 26, 2020 | BY GENE MITCHELL Meet the LeadingAge Catalyst for February 2020: Stephani Shivers, chief operating officer, community services for LiveWell, Plantsville, CT. Leadership and Innovation in Dementia Services An occupational...
LiveWell Leads Drive for Dementia Friendly Living in Southington
LiveWell of Southington continues to be the state leader for Dementia Friends Connecticut, and has been growing stronger as more and more local businesses and individuals join in on the initiative to make Southington dementia-friendly. According to some studies, 70% of people living with dementia...
Dementia resources at the library
Dementia resources at the libraryThe Southington Public Library is now offering free brain health and dementia resources consultations with Shazia Chaudhry from LiveWell Dementia Specialists every second Tuesday of the month. She will be located near the rear entrance of the library. Chaudhry is a...
Dementia-friendly training improves customer service
Members of Dementia Friendly Southington and town staff visited the public library on Thursday, Sept. 19, to celebrate the library’s new designation—being the first organization in town that has undergone Dementia Friendly training. “We all decided that we wanted to make sure that all of our...
LiveWell, library offers ‘memory café’ as new dementia resource
LiveWell, library offers ‘memory café’ as new dementia resource The Southington Public Library, in partnership with LiveWell dementia specialists, are bringing a trending resource to town. Southington’s own “memory café” will kick off on June 11 from 1 to 3:30 p.m. at the library. The monthly...
LiveWell leads awareness initiative
LiveWell leads awareness initiative The town of Southington is leading the way in the state of Connecticut in the nationwide initiative, “Dementia Friendly America.” In partnership with LiveWell, formerly the Alzheimer’s Resource Center, “Dementia Free Southington” is charting the maps for other...
LiveWell is leading the charge for ‘Dementia Friendly Southington’
LiveWell is leading the charge for ‘Dementia Friendly Southington’ There is a movement taking place in the town of Southington. It is a movement of understanding, of challenging perspectives, of creating space for others and letting them know there is support in the community. Dementia Friendly...