How Care Partners Can Help Those Diagnosed with Dementia Create Legacy While Also Ensuring Firearm Safety

How Care Partners Can Help Those Diagnosed with Dementia Create Legacy While Also Ensuring Firearm Safety Ben Biddick 15:18

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Today our guest is the brilliant Dr. Emmy Betz. With degrees from Johns Hopkins and Yale, she works as a board-certified emergency physician and conducts research in injury prevention with specific focuses including older driver safety, suicide prevention, and firearm injury prevention. Her work has been funded by the National Institutes of Health, the Department of Defense, and more. Dr. Betz also instructs medical and graduate students and residents about injury prevention and geriatrics. Doctor, thank you for joining us on the show!

Professor | Department of Emergency Medicine | University of Colorado School of Medicine

Director | Firearm Injury Prevention Initiative | Injury and Violence Prevention Center

Colorado School of Public Health | CU Anschutz Medical Campus

Research Physician | Eastern Colorado Geriatric Research, Education, and Clinical Center (GRECC) | Veterans Health Administration

https://firearmlifeplan.org

Create your plan for safety today at Plan | Firearm Life Plan

English: https://www.dementiasafety.org/safe-at-home-dandc-english

Spanish: https://www.dementiasafety.org/safe-at-home-dandc-esp/

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Ben Biddick Podcaster

After attending the University of Wisconsin, Ben Biddick enlisted in the United States Army following the terror attacks of September 11, 2001. He served as a combat medic and military policeman in Iraq and performed Emergency Management Operations for the State of Wisconsin. Following military service, Biddick served as a civilian law enforcement officer focused on the prevention of domestic violence, the exploitation of children in the form of human trafficking, and criminal gang membership. He also served as a Crisis and Hostage Negotiator and has nearly 20 years of experience of serving others in civilian, military, and correctional healthcare environments. His most recent endeavors include performing crisis intervention during the COVID19 Pandemic and service as a Dementia Care Specialist in the State of Wisconsin.

He is an author, public speaker, and consultant who strives to transform the effects of trauma into power bases of positive change, recovery, and empowerment. As the owner of Ideal State Consulting LLC, he uses his Master’s Degree in Performance Improvement and experiences to assist individuals and organizations create a more just and noble America worthy of the honorable men and women who built it and continue to build it every day.

Ben is also the Creator and Host of the www.getupnationpodcast.com where he helps individuals, organizations, and societies develop and sustain resilience and perseverance and https://anchor.fm/theresilientcaregiver podcast where he empowers those who serve people diagnosed with dementia.