Greetings from your new president! I’m very happy to be able to serve our organization in this role. I am looking forward to our first meeting of the year:
when: Friday, January 20, 2017, 6:30 PM
where: The home of our past president, Dr. Weyand
We will be having happy hour, dinner and an after-dinner speaker. We will follow our pot-luck tradition for meetings in members’ homes. Bring an appetizer, a side dish, salad, bread, or dessert and beverage of your choosing. Carolyn is making a New England classic, American Chop Suey. I know it will be a great treat, she says it is to New Englanders what Jambalaya is to New Orleanians. Its essence is macaroni, ground beef, and tomato sauce and she will add her own special gourmet embellishments.
I will be the speaker at this meeting, and my topic is Communicating and interacting with people with dementia. This discussion should be of interest to psychologists who encounter issues of the elderly in their practice, either in clients or in the family members of their younger clients. It should also benefit those of us who deal with aging and/or dementia in our own families and friends. It is a favorite topic for me and I feel well experienced in this area. Working with the elderly and dementia has been a long time interest in my education and practice for both my careers (as a registered nurse and as a clinical psychologist) I am also personally prepared through my experiences as an only child caring for my parents through my mother’s Alzheimer’s disease and my father’s vascular dementia, which lead to their deaths. My mission is to bring a positive focus to enhancing our experiences with the elderly and dementia.
Hoping to see many of you at the meeting!
Please RSVP to DR. Weyand for this event by email or one of the phone numbers below:
Office: 504-895-2901
Mobile: 832-563-2658
Fax: 504-891-3039
With my regards,
Georganna Leavesley, PhD
President, CCAPS