Preserving Relationships: Using Storytelling as a Strengths-Based Approach for Families Living with a Dementia Diagnosis - Lauren Dowden
When:
Thursday, May 19, 2016
12:00 PM - 12:45 PM CT
Where: Robert H Lurie Medical Research Center, Searle Seminar Room, 303 E. Superior, Chicago, IL 60611 map it
Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Public - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students
Contact:
Bryan Morrison
(312) 503-1927
Group: Medical Humanities & Bioethics Lunchtime Montgomery Lectures
Category: Lectures & Meetings
Description:
Lauren Dowden, MSW, LSW
Social Worker
Cognitive Neurology and Alzheimer’s Disease Center
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Preserving Relationships: Using Storytelling as a Strengths-Based Approach for Families Living with a Dementia Diagnosis
Lauren Dowden, MSW, LSW, from the Cognitive Neurology and Alzheimer’s Disease Center at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and co-creator of Don’t Look Away, a storytelling workshop for families living with a dementia diagnosis, will offer a background history of the storytelling workshop and the preliminary research findings. Ms. Dowden will then introduce a couple whose life has been impacted by Alzheimer's disease. The couple will share with you, in their words, their co-created story about their lives together including the time leading up to the diagnosis to today. There will be time afterwards for Q & A.