Dementia: What it Is, Who Gets it, Advances in Care Today and in the Future with P.K. Beville
- Dementia: What it Is, Who Gets it, Advances in Care Today and in the Future with P.K. Beville Jeff Ostroff 33:52
Hi everyone. Today you’re going to learn about a disease that affects millions of people worldwide: dementia. As you’ll soon learn, like Cancer, dementia can present itself in many different forms.
In Episode #2, of Health Care on the Horizon, you’ll learn about such things as:
(1) who and how many people dementia affects, (2) how many different kinds of dementia there are– (it’s not just Alzheimer’s disease, by the way, (3) advances that have been made in helping delay, diagnosis, and treat dementia, and (4) what may lie ahead in tackling this disease.
Spoiler alert: There’s some good news there!
You’ll also learn about a great program that’s intended to vastly improve the quality of life for those with dementia and their family caregivers.
To help us with this, we’ve brought on a decades-long expert on dementia, She’s P.K. Beville.
P.K. Beville has been in the dementia field and working with dementia patients for nearly 40 years! She’s also the founder of Second Wind Dreams®, which she started in 1997.
Second Wind Dreams is an internationally-known nonprofit organization, created to change the perception of Aging through fulfilling elders’ dreams. It also offers educational programs to help caregivers understand the physical and mental challenges facing those with dementia. Second Wind Dreams is the first organization to focus on granting dreams for elders.
P.K. also created the internationally-acclaimed Virtual Dementia Tour® (VDT®). Experienced by nearly 4 million people in 20 countries, the Virtual Dementia Tour® is a scientifically-proven training method designed to build sensitivity and awareness in individuals caring for those with dementia.
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