Berkshire AHEC Announces training03:53PM / Saturday, December 06, 2008
The Berkshire Area Health Education Center (AHEC), Inc. is sponsoring a continuing professional development training entitled “After They Forget: The Thriving Spirit of Alzheimer’s” on Thursday, December 9, 2008 from 9:00am to noon at Zucchini’s Restaurant, 1331 North Street, Pittsfield with the Rev. Dr. Kathleen Rusnak presenting. The belief that persons with advanced Alzheimer’s disease have lost the essence of who they are can lead to a decrease in desire, time, and energy professional caregivers invest with patients.
This program will take a deep look into the concept of personhood and give examples of its moral, ethical and social consequences in history. Using stories with Alzheimer’s patients Dr. Rusnak will offer a novel look into a world where an enhanced respect for the cognitively impaired can result in a mutuality and wholeness between caregiver and patient neither would have experienced otherwise. Rev. Dr Rusnak, Ph.D, is President and Founder of The Brick Wall 2, Inc. She is an ordained Lutheran pastor with a doctorate in Psychology and Religion. She has been the pastor of three Lutheran congregations, has served as a hospice chaplain in two hospices, was the director of spiritual care and bereavement at another hospice.
Registration and a continental breakfast will begin at 8:30am. 3 contact hours will be available for psychologists, social workers, licensed mental health counselors, and occupational therapists and 3.6 contact hours for nurses, The fee for the program is $57 until the day of the program and $62 the day of the program. Price includes continental breakfast, course materials and CE certificate. Please visit www.berkshireahec.org, to register online and for more information. |
