Caregiving for People with Non-Alzheimer's Dementia

The National Alzheimer’s and Dementia Resource Center is hosting a webinar about the challenges of non-Alzheimer's dementias. The webinar will cover of other common causes of dementia and the associated symptoms. Presenters will describe the caregiving needs for people living with these dementias and will focus specifically on how caregiving for people with Lewy body dementia and frontotemporal degeneration may be different from Alzheimer's disease. During this webinar, presenters will also review relevant cargeiving case studies.

Presenters: 

• Sharon S. Denny, M.A., is senior director of Programs at the Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration where she leads strategic development of support and education for people with frontotemporal degeneration, their families and healthcare professionals.
• Angela Taylor is the senior director of Research and Advocacy for the Lewy Body Dementia Association, where she leads research, advocacy and educational activities of the organization.

• Sari Shuman is a senior research public health analyst at RTI International, and serves as the co-director of the National Alzheimer’s and Dementia Resource Center.