Ann Arbor senior living community to offer free series on dementia, caregiving
Virtual educational series to launch in June
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ANN ARBOR, Mich. – Beginning in June, Ann Arbor community members can learn more about dementia and caregiving through a free webinar series from Glacier Hills Senior Living Community.
Hosted by the Glacier Hills Foundation, the Walter J. Weber Dementia Education Series will provide training and techniques to residents, families and community organizations working with or caring for individuals experiencing cognitive decline.
The series will feature free webinars hosted by dementia caregiving expert Teepa Snow and her Positive Approach to Care team. Each webinar can accommodate up to 500 participants.
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System Failure
The mission of senior care facilities to ease residents’ twilight years turned into a nightmare after state leaders failed to adequately separate COVID-19 patients from healthy individuals.
When COVID-19 started roiling through nursing homes last winter, Cecelia Payne had more
at stake than most. And her worst fears soon became reality. Her husband, Arnold Brown, 78, died of COVID-19 on April 24, 2020, at McLaren Macomb Hospital in Mt. Clemens after being transferred there from the Martha T. Berry Medical Care Facility.
Brown, a former manufacturing tooling engineer before a stroke disabled him, had been in the Mt. Clemens skilled nursing facility since 2006. His roommate at the medical care facility died, as well. “I really do feel that he got it from a staff member,” Payne, of Macomb Township, says of her husband’s illness. “Especially when I learned his roommate had it, too.”