• There is a Bridge
• Leadership Building for Advocacy
  • Leadership Building Workshop Descriptions
• Community Building Process
• Community Membership
• Getting Older and Getting Wiser
• Sustaining a Self
• Team Building for Community Builders
• Relationships, Romance and Intimacy
• Creative Aging Festival 2012
• IACED Aging in Place Training

Training Seminars

There is a Bridge: Developing Programs for Communicating with Persons with Dementia

Duration: Week-long intensive
Participants: Limited

Rather than focus on what people lose from dementia, let’s focus on what they retain. It's said that a person with dementia is never truly "gone". The Memory Bridge project provides caregivers with a new way of seeing the person with dementia. Completion of the project's training equips the caregiver or friend with the skills to effectively communicate through social/emotional channels and develop a bridge that joins two humans in a shared understanding.

Memory Bridge has been adapted to multiple settings and audiences, including young people, Hospice volunteers and professionals, and general audiences. Formats vary widely, from one-hour keynote presentations to 3-day intensives. Programs typically include multimedia elements, including the hour-long public television documentary There is a Bridge, which has been acclaimed by audiences throughout the US and Europe.

In the Summer of 2012, the first Memory Bridge Institute will be held in Bloomington, Indiana, for high school teachers who wish to develop the Memory Bridge curriculum project in their home schools. This intensive, week-long institute will be held at the Tibetan-Mongolian Culture Center. Our summer institute is still evolving - more information and details will be released this winter.

"There is a Bridge" is a partnership between the Memory Bridge Foundation and the Center on Aging and Community.