CEU Creations’ 5th Annual Elder Care Symposium: Finding Joy, Dignity, and Self-Determination with No Regrets

Presented by:
Lisa Marshall Author, Blogger
Lisa Marshall was the primary caregiver for her husband Peter Marshall who was diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s in 2018 at the age of 53. Lisa retired in 2020 from a professional sales career to care for her husband who could no longer be alone. Peter passed away on December 26th, 2021, just three years and eight months after diagnosis. He was 56. She is passionate about advocating for support for caregivers and raises her voice to create awareness of the disease. For over four years she has chronicled her and Peter’s daily journey at www.facebook.com/ohhelloalzheimers offering an honest, realistic, and raw look at Alzheimer’s disease, to followers all over the world. Her book, Oh Hello Alzheimer’s: A Caregiver’s Journey of Love, a love story and caregiver guide, is available on Amazon. This book offers tips and tricks for caregivers, covering taboo topics not often talked about. She is also a contributing author of Chicken Soup for the Soul: Navigating Elder Care and Dementia. Her chapter depicts just one of the many sad nuances of Alzheimer’s. Lisa and Peter’s journey has been covered on CNN, The Washington Post, Today.com, CBS Evening News, On the Road with Steve Hartman, People.com, and
more. Continuing her passion, she holds virtual Alzheimer’s discussions with followers as well as private consultations, offering her insight, tips, and coping skills.
Participants discuss their own unique stories and realize a sense of community together in a safe space. She works with companies that offer continuing education credits to medical professionals helping them to understand the disease. Lisa shares tips she’s learned to help professional caregivers cope which ultimately helps their Alzheimer’s patients.
Lisa works closely with the Alzheimer’s Association and led a team with Walk to End Alzheimer’s helping fund research to find a cure. Her team was the largest fundraising team in CT in 2021, raising more than $55,000. When Lisa isn’t writing, she spends time with her family. She has three grown children, two stepchildren, and two grandsons who she babysits whenever she can. Additionally, she enjoys a very active life hiking, swimming in the neighborhood lake, going to the beach, visiting with friends, traveling, and gardening. Lisa practices meditation and vibrates positive energy and love to everyone she meets. Her mantra is to find joy in life and live each day with no regrets.
Sade Thompson, LMSW CDACCT, CDP
Sade Thompson is an LMSW CDACCT, CDP in the Pennsylvania area. Over the past decade Sade has worked in the gerontology and behavioral health industry with a focus in memory care, and mental health. Over the past five years Sade presented training on various memory care models and helped with development of Memory Care in a private CCRC community. In Sade’s free time she enjoys spending time with her family and friends.
Marv Weisbord, Author, Speaker
Marv Weisbord started his career studying journalism in college and became a professional writer. Up until the early 70’s he wrote articles for periodicals such as the New York Times Magazine, Family Circle, True, Sports Illustrated, Kiwanis, Reader’s Digest Coronet, The New Republic, and The Progressive. He also published Campaigning for President (Public Affairs Press, 1962, Washington Square Press paperback, 1965) and Some Form of Peace (Viking, 1967), a book of adventure stories of activists associated with the American Friends Service Committee. He has been a member of the American Society of Journalists and Authors since 1962. Marv was an associate editor of The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science from 1972 to 1978. He has written for that journal and many others including Health Care Management Review, Group and Organization Studies and Organizational Dynamics. He is the author of Organizational Diagnosis texts in dozens of colleges and universities. He conceived and co-authored Discovering Common Ground (BerrettKoehler, 1992), which traces the theory and development of Future Search and related planning events around the world. He is also the co-author with Sandra Janoff of Future Search: An Action Guide (Berrett-Koehler, 2nd ed., 2000). Marv joined Peter Block and Tony Petrella in the early 70’s in what became the consulting firm Block Petrella Weisbord and the training company Designed Learning. They did about 100 major projects working with many different companies. He did several projects involving the restructuring of factories, offices, and in a few cases whole corporations. Most of this work he reported in his books Productive Workplaces (1987) and Productive Workplaces Revisited (2004). Marv was also the co-founder of Bluesky Productions with Allan Kobernick and Sandra Janoff in the 1980’s and wrote or helped produce more than 30 videotapes on workplace improvement, including the Productive Workplaces Video Workshop that was used by more than 100 companies. For 20 years Marv was a member of NTL Institute for Applied Behavioral Science where he ran T-groups and learning laboratories in organizational diagnosis, team building and consultation skills. Marv trained many consultants in Sweden and Norway starting in 1975 and was a Visiting Research Scientist working with Max Elden at the Norwegian Institute of Technology, Trondheim, in 1987. Marv’s academic training and early work experience was in journalism and the social sciences. He is a graduate of the University of Illinois (BS 1953) and the State University of Iowa (MA 1955) and he also did graduate work at the University of Pennsylvania (1959-61). He was a U.S. Navy Journalist (1955-57) and an instructor in journalism at Penn State (1957-59).
Alex Glazebrook, MSW, PhD
As VP of Program Operations, Alex Glazebrook is responsible for ensuring an outstanding experience for the older adults who participate in the many training and support programs that OATS (Older Adults Technology Services) offers. Alex hires, assigns, and manages the team of OATS trainers who collectively deliver thousands of hours of live instruction to groups of seniors each year at dozens of program sites. In addition, Alex leads the organization’s efforts to identify and assess existing and emerging technology in order to determine its suitability for inclusion in OATS programming, and is charged with developing new technology-based channels through which OATS can deliver its services. Alex earned a BA, MSW, and PhD from Stony Brook University, specializing in healthcare, with a focus on aging, investigating the many ways in which technology influences health outcomes for older adults. Prior to joining OATS, Alex had a brief stint in the financial services industry before finding his true calling aiding the underserved. When not at OATS, you can find Alex competing in marathons, caring for his temperamental English Bulldog, or contending with the rigors of academia.
Chris Millett, MM, MT-BC
Chris Millett, MM, MT-BC, is an Assistant Professor of Music Therapy at the University of Louisville. As a music therapy clinician and educator, Chris identifies from a Community Music Therapy (CoMT) - eclectic theoretical orientation. After nearly a decade, his clinical experience includes a wide range of populations including adolescents in group residential care, pediatric and adult medical populations, addiction recovery, senior living and memory care, exceptional education communities, neurodivergent populations, and more. As clinical and administrative coordinator of a nonprofit community music therapy clinic, Chris also has experience in securing grant and philanthropy funding to serve marginalized communities. Chris has a wide range of music therapy, music technology, and audio engineering experience and enjoys regularly teaching on those topics at regional, online-based, and national conferences. Of primary teaching interest to Chris is the use of electric and acoustic guitar in therapy, expanding music therapists' music tech literacy (e.g. effects pedals, audio engineering, synthesizers, etc.), and increasing clinical musicianship. Outside of direct clinical work, Chris hosts the podcast / media series Make More Music on podcast platforms and YouTube. He has collaborated with many top electric guitar effects companies including Chase Bliss, JHS Pedals, Wampler Pedals, Caulfield Cables, Yahama, Jamstik, Pedaltrain, Truetone, Strymon Engineering, and more.
Informed Consent and Ethics with Seniors and Dementia Clients Panel Discussion:
Moderated by Lauren Snedeker, DSW, LSW, LMSW, Assistant Professor of Teaching, Coordinator for the MSW Certificate in Aging and Health, Rutgers School of Social Work
PANEL INCLUDES: Kelli Wolk, JD, Chief Judge, Cobb County Probate Court; Carleton Fitzgerald Coleman, Division of Aging Services Public Guardianship Office Section Manager; Sarah R. Watchko, J.D.,CELA