A CONFERENCE FOR CAREGIVERS AND PROFESSIONALSE A R LY S T A G E & Y O U N G E R - O N S E T P E R S O N S W I T H D E M E N T I A
ALZHEIMER’S EDUCATION CONFERENCE
AND
CELEBRATION OF EXCELLENCE AWARD LUNCHEON
A LZHEIMER ’ S A SSOCIATION
OF
Oklahoma and Arkansas Chapter
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Tulsa, OK 74136-7810
YOUR BEST LIFE IN THE MIDST
Your best life in the midst
June 9 -2010, Renaissance Hotel, 6808 S. 107th East Ave., Tulsa
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TULSA, OK
June 9,2010
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Hope: Your best life in the midst of Alzheimer's
7:30 a.m. – 5 p.m., Wednesday, June 9, 2010
Renaissance Hotel, 6808 S. 107th E. Ave., Tulsa
Your best life in the midst of Alzheimers
6:30 a.m.
Exhibitor Set-up
7:00 - 8:00 a.m.
VIP Breakfast
7:30 a.m.
Registration and Exhibits Open / Exhibit Room: Salon VII, VIII and IX
8:15 a.m.
General Session: Welcome: Emcee: Michael Wallis, author and voice in the
animated movie "Cars." Room: Salon V
8:45 - 9:45 a.m.
Morning Plenary I (1 CEU Hour): Keynote Speaker: Fearless Caregiver, Gary
Barg, author of "The Fearless Caregiver." Room: Salon V
Concurrent Younger-onset/Early Stage Sessions:
The sessions below are designed for younger-onset/early stage people with Alzheimer's.
8:45 – 9:45 a.m.
Welcome; In our Own Words, Part 1: Room: Madrid I
9:45 a.m.
Break
10:00 - 10:45 a.m.
In our Own Words, Part II
10:45 a.m.
Break
10:00 - 10:45 a.m.
Morning Plenary II (.75 CEU Hour): Fearless Caregiver,Gary Barg, author of
"The Fearless Caregiver." Room: Salon V
10:45 - 11:15 a.m.
Book Signing: Gary Barg and Michael Wallis. Exhibit Room: Salon VII, VIII and IX
11:15 - Noon
Research Update: TBA (.75 CEU Hour)
Noon - 1:45 p.m.
Celebration of Excellence Luncheon and Award Presentation. Guest Speaker:
Actress Kate Mulgrew. (.5 CEU Hours). Presentation of Maureen Reagan
Memorial Award. Soloist: American Idol Season Five Finalist: Patrick Hall
Room: Salons I-IV
1:45 - 3:15 p.m.
First Afternoon Breakout Sessions: Choose one: (1.5 CEU Hours)
1. Ethics: A Musical Comedy in Two Acts: Dancing Moose Productions: Room: Salon V
2. Alzheimer's Strategies: Ruth Drew, Director of Family and Information
Services, National Alzheimer's Association: Room: Madrid I
3.Awakening to Spirituality: A Caregiver's Companion on the Journey:
Chaz Gaut, Director of Marketing and Community Relations, Hospice of
Green Country: Room: Madrid II
3:15 - 3:30 p.m.
Break
3:30 -5.00 p.m.
Second Afternoon Breakout Sessions: Choose one: (1.5 CEU Hours)
1. Ethics Part II: A Musical Comedy in Two Acts: Dancing Moose
Productions: Room: Salon V
2. Meditation and Stress Reduction for Caregivers: Sister Ellie Finlay: Room: Madrid I
3. Tools of Estate Planning: Stephen Colaw, Sr. Vice President and Trust
Officer, Arvest Bank, and Michael Jansen, Assoc. Dir. of Planned Giving
for the Alzheimer’s Association: Room: Madrid II
5:00 p.m.
Distribution of CEU’S and Adjourn
Application for 6 hours of continuing education has been made for:
CMSA, LCSW, OPA, OT, PT, Speech Therapy, LTCA, LPC, LMFT, RN
KATHERINE MULGREW: Celebration of Excellence Luncheon Keynote
Katherine Mulgrew is an American actress, most famous for her roles as Mary Ryan
on Ryan's Hope and Captain Kathryn Janeway on Star Trek: Voyager. She currently
appears in the NBC series "Mercy."
She is an Alzheimer's Champion who has a family perspective on the disease. Kate
knows about Alzheimer's as she experienced first-hand how the disease impacted
her mother.
Kate has performed in multiple television shows, theatre productions and movies, she has also earned
multiple awards for her acting, including an Obie Award, a Golden Satellite Award and a Saturn Award.
She has also been nominated for a Golden Globe Award.
She is also an active member of the Alzheimer's Association National Advisory Council and the voice of
Cleveland's Metro Health System.
MICHAEL WALLIS: Emcee
A best-selling author and award-winning reporter, Michael is a historian and
biographer of the American West who also has gained international notoriety as a
speaker and voice talent. In 2006 Michael's distinctive voice was heard in CARS,
an animated feature film from Pixar Studios. Michael will be featured in CARS 2,
a sequel to the original motion picture due for release in 2011.
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EARLY BIRD BEFORE MAY 21:
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Caregiver: $45
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Caregiver: $60
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was also a nominee for the National Book Award.
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Michael was inducted into the Writers Hall of Fame of America, the Oklahoma Professional Writer's Hall
of Fame, the Oklahoma Historians Hall of Fame, and was the first inductee into the Oklahoma Route 66
Hall of Fame. He received the Arrell Gibson Lifetime Achievement Award from the Oklahoma Center for
the Book as well as the Lynn Riggs Award and the first John Steinbeck Award.
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Since 1982, Michael and his wife, Suzanne Fitzgerald Wallis, have made their home in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
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GARY EDWARD BARG: Morning Plenary Speaker
Gary Barg joins us through
Author:
The Fearless Caregiver book
the kind support of Ann Graves,
Editor-In-Chief: Today’s Caregiver Magazine / caregiver.com
in honor of Jack Graves
Host:
Fearless Caregiver conferences
A noted speaker, writer and publisher on caregiving issues since 1995, Gary Barg
is Founder and Editor-In-Chief of the first national magazine for caregivers, Today’s
Caregiver, as well the original online caregiver community, caregiver.com. Today’s
Caregiver magazine and caregiver.com combine information, advice and reader’s
stories with interviews with celebrity caregivers such as Leeza Gibbons, Rob Lowe,
Dana Reeve, Barbara Eden and Debbie Reynolds, among others. Gary created The
Fearless Caregiver Conferences, hosted across the country, which brings together caregivers to share
their knowledge and experience and wisdom. His book, The Fearless Caregiver, is filled with practical
advice, poetry and inspirational stories.
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