An organization in Fort Worth will host a virtual conference Monday to help people gain a better understanding of dementia. The James L. West Center is a non-profit facility that provides residential and outpatient care.
“Part of our dementia education is normalizing dementia, taking away that stigma,” says Hollie Lowe, the center’s director of education and family support services. “That’s what we do every day. We are out in front of family caregivers and professionals and teaching about dementia. How does the disease progress? How do we accommodate the disease? The person living with dementia can’t, but we can.”
June is National Alzheimer’s Month and Brain Health Awareness Month. The seminar Monday will start with two hours on the loss and grief caregivers might feel. Lowe says they will talk about how a spouse or child of someone with dementia may feel helpless watching personality changes in that person…