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Understanding how dementias move through the brain and cause changes in behavior allows families and professionals to determine how much damage the brain has suffered. Identifying your loved one’s stage of dementia means knowing what behaviors or declines will follow, the time a Person With Dementia is expected to be in each stage, how much brain tissue is remaining, and how much time is left for your loved one.
**Sponsored by VITAS Healthcare**
Date April 21, 2020
Hosted By WellMed Charitable Foundation
Tam Cummings, PhD
As a gerontologist Tam provides private consultation and education services to families extensive education courses for nurses social workers administrators and activity directors keynote addresses and breakout sessions on dementia or the aging process for national state or regional conferences and individualized programming for dementia and memory care communities.
Tam has worked in dementia communities for more than two decades giving her firsthand experience with persons with dementia their struggles and behaviors and the frustration families and professionals face daily. She has used that experience to develop her stages of dementia tool. She is dedicated and passionate about helping care partners learn the skills needed to provide for care.
Tam has been the director of social work for a skilled nursing facility the program director for memory care communities and a geriatric case manager for persons with dementia. She has been in private practice for more than four years.
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