StilMee's website is updated with all the services we offer. I am excited about the family forum trainings we'll offer in the fall and the StilMee Certification Training for professionals. 5 CEUs for social workers makes it a great way to expand your knowledge of working with folks with dementia. If you are in the healthcare field you will have contact with both those with dementia from various causes and their families. I guess I've always gravitated toward educating the caregivers in whatever healthcare field I was in at the time. I had an educational support group for families of mentally ill people at Deaconess Hospital in the late 70s and early 80s. It amazed me to find the lack of knowledge of the diagnosis a family member had. This is true today of families who muddle through caring for someone with dementia. There is no reason a person must 'muddle' through! There is valuable education from a coach, from support groups, from the Help Line at the Alzheimer's Association 800-272-3900, and books. I'm including a bibliography here that can start you on your way to confidence.
Alzheimer’s A Caregiver’s Guide and Sourcebook by Howard Gruetzner; John Wiley and Sons, Inc. New York, 1992.
Alzheimer’s Early Stages; first steps in caring and treatment by Daniel Kuhn, MSW; Hunter House Publishers, Inc., California 1998.
Care That Works; A Relationship Approach to Persons with Dementia by Jitka M. Zgola, Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore and London, 1999.
Learning to Speak Alzheimers by Joanne Koenig Coste, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston and New York, 2003.
Matters of the Mind…and the Heart Meeting the challenges of Alzheimer care by Beverly Moore, Strategic Book Publishing, New York, New York 2009.
Rethinking Alzheimer’s Care by Sam Fazio, Dorothy Seman, & Jane Stansell, Heatlh Professions Press, Baltimore, London, Winnepeg & Sidney.
I'm Still Here by John Zeisel PhD, Penguin a division of Avery Publishing, NY, NY.
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