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Today our host Lori La Bey talks with

  1. Denise Calhoun is an author and founder of Calhoun Communications and Communicare Connections.
  • Marilyn Raichle is an author and Executive Director of Maude’s Awards.
  • Ken Whalen whose Mother lived with dementia. this experience changed his life. He and his brother created the Linda Kay Monroe Whelan Memorial Education Scholarship to honor his mom.
  • Teresa Carter the founder of Forget Me Not Associates in Dementia Knowledge.

I think you will find our conversation with Denise Calhoun, Marilyn Raichle, Ken Whelan, and Teresa Carter interesting as we explore services, products, care culture, needs, and positive outcomes.

Calhoun Communications  https://calhouncommunications.net/about

Communicare  Connections  https://communicareconnection.org/

Book – Changing Seasons: A Language Arts Curriculum for Healthy Aging

Purdue   https://www.press.purdue.edu/

Amazon  https://www.amazon.com/Changing-Seasons-Language-Curriculum-Healthy-ebook/dp/B0BG2MMHQ2?ref_=ast_author_dp

Book – Don’t’ Walk Away


Book Website  https://dontwalkaway.net/

Amazon  https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DCBMQNDB

Email    marilyn@maudesawards.org

Maude’s Awards gives three annual $25,000 awards to organizations and up to five $5,000 awards to individuals excelling in one of four categories of care for persons living with dementia and care partners. Applications have closed for 2024, but we will let you know when the winners are announced.

Linda Kay Monroe Whelan Memorial Education Scholarship: https://bold.org/funds/linda-kay-monroe-whelan-memorial-scholarship-fund/

Forget Me Not Associates

https://forgetmenotassociates.com/

We have OPEN MIC monthly and you’re invited!

Join Alzheimer’s Speaks Radio today on Open Mic as we shift dementia care from crisis to comfort around the world one episode at a time.  We love raising all voices and delivering sound news, not just sound bites!  So, we invite you to call in and tell us how you are improving dementia care. We just ask all parties to hold to have a respectful conversation.

Share Your Story, Service, Product, or Tool on Alzheimer’s Speaks Open Mic

Share your dementia or caregiving story. Tell us about your service, product, or tool you have that can help others dealing with dementia.  Have you written a book, penned, or produced a song or film?  If so, we want to hear from you.  Maybe you are working on a research project or have a trial you are promoting. 

Alzheimer’s Speaks Radio – Shifting dementia care from crisis to comfort around the world one episode at a time by raising all voices and delivering sound news, not just sound bites since 2011.

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