Families are often at a loss as to how to include a person with dementia in the conversations and care tasks surrounding a dying family member. This presentation will address the issues that affect the grieving family, including possible responses from the person with dementia. Strategies for including person with dementia will be described and appropriate approaches discussed.
Speaker: Annette Kelly, PhD, ARNP, Independent Nurse Research and Health Educator
Annette Kelly is a diploma graduate of St Vincent’s Hospital School of Nursing in New York City with a BSN from George Mason University in Fairfax VA, MSN, ARNP and PhD from the University of Florida and a recent Faith Community Nurse (FCN) certification from St. Louis University. Approaching 50 years in Nursing, Dr. Kelly has enjoyed hospital and long term care nursing, community program development and nursing education; she is recently retired as Graduate Program Director at Florida Southern College in Lakeland, FL. Dr. Kelly is the founding director of St Mary Magdalen Adult Center and spent 13 years as CEO of the Central and North Florida Alzheimer’s Association during which she developed programs for persons with cognitive impairment and both family and professional caregivers. An advocate for person-centered care in long term care, Dr. Kelly is volunteer Chair of the Florida Pioneer Network, a statewide coalition of stakeholders whose goal is changing the culture of long term care in Florida.