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Alzheimer’s Caregiver Support Group - East Lansing: A monthly discussion group that meets the 4th Tuesday of each month and offers support, education, problem solving and guest speakers. Open to all family and friends of those suffering from memory loss. For more information, please call 800-272-3900 or visit www.alz.org/mglc.
Stroke Support Group – First Thursday of the month at Burcham Hills, 2700 Burcham Drive, Private Dining Room, East Lansing, MI. 1:30 to 2:30 p.m.
U P C O M I N G C O N F E R E N C E S:
Ninth Annual Michigan Mental Health and Aging Conference, sponsored by Lansing Community College/MHAP. May 8-9, 2012, Kellogg Center, East Lansing, MI. Topics include advanced Parkinson’s disease, life review, behavioral health for persons with DD, forgiveness, cognitive impairment and pain, treatment for depression, clinical assessment, adults with autism, legal issues, “OBRA 101,” communication in dementia care, neuropsychological assessment, aphasia, hoarding and more! For information, email beham@lcc.edu or call Matt at 517-483-1529.
Advances in Rehabilitation Nursing – 2012: Keeping the Patient Perspective, sponsored by University of Michigan Health System. May 11, 2012, Ann Arbor, MI. Register through April 13 for $109, after that date $129. Trinity Health & UMHS staff, retirees, students, and groups of three or more – $99. Register online at www.regonline.com/AR12.
Challenging Geriatric Behaviors, sponsored by PESI HealthCare. May 30 – Grand Rapids, MI; May 31 – Lansing, MI, and June 1 – Livonia, MI. Topics include dementia, depression and delirium; sundowning and wandering; physical aggression; forgetting versus refusing to eat; driving issues; caregiver stress and burnout, and inappropriate sexual behaviors. Register by calling 800-843-7763, M-F, 7-5 CT, or online with credit card at www.pesihealthcare.com.
Treatment Trends 2012 Technology, 2012 Spring Symposium, sponsored by DMC Rehabilitation Institute of Michigan. May 31, 2012, 8:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., MGM Grand Detroit. Keynote speaker is Wise Young, MD, director of the W.M. Keck Center for Collaborative Neuroscience and a professor at Rutgers. He is recognized as one of the world’s outstanding neuroscientists and a leader in spinal cord injury research. In 2005, he was the first reseracher elected to the Spinal Cord Injury Hall of Fame. This conference is free; however, if you wish to attend lunch and the keynote presentation, there is a $38 fee. 4.0 CEUs for CCM. Online registrations only. Registration is open from April 2 to May 22. To register, pleas4e visit www.RIMrehab.org/symposium.
Stroke Recovery – Neuroplastic Tools for Therapists, sponsored by Summit Professional Education. June 5 – Saginaw, MI. June 6 – Flint, MI. June 7 – Detroit, MI. June 8 – Toledo, OH. Highlights are: Techniques, treatments and therapies to rewire the brain after stroke; tools to reestablish sensation and proprioception; strategies to reduce spasticity by restoring executive control by the brain over spastic muscles; reimbursable and practical modification of constraint induced therapy (mCIT), including the screening process, intervention techniques and measuring outcome; learn to find free and easy to access stroke-specific, reserach-based evidence on the web; and new and emerging technological advances that will change the face of stroke rehabilitation. Register online at www.summit-education.com, or call 800-433-9570.
Pharmacology, sponsored by PharmaScript. Speaker is Dr. Edward Dabrowski, Chief, Division of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Assistant Professor Children’s Hospital of Michigan. June 12, 2012, Holiday Inn-Detroit Livonia. MBIPC’s “Learn Over Lunch Series.” Scheduled meeting times are 12:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. Registration begins at 11:30 a.m. Member cost: $25.00, non-member: $60. For further information, please contact info@mbipc.org.
Advanced Mindfulness: Integrating Mindfulness, Meditation and Cutting-Edge Neuroscience in the Treatment of Anxiety, Anger and Depression, sponsored by CMI Education Institute and PESI. Features Terry Fralich, national trainer and author of Cultivating Lasting Happiness: A 7-Step Guide to Mindfulness. June 18 – Lansing, June 19 – Grand Rapids, June 21 – South Bend, and June 22 – Indianapolis. 6 credits for $79.99. For more information, visit www.pesi.com.
22nd Annual Conference & Expo: Spanning the Waves of Change in an Ocean of Opportunities, sponsored by CMSA. June 19-22, San Francisco, CA. Contact www.cmsa.org/conference for more information.
Alzheimer’s Association International Conference 2012, sponsored by the Alzheimer’s Association. July 14-19, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. For more information, visit alz.org/AAIC.