EDUCATION AND CERTIFICATIONS

CERTIFIED DEMENTIA PRACTITIONER (CDP)

National Council of Certified Dementia Practitioners, CDP #225908

2017

FIRST AID CPR AED

American Heart Association

June 2015

CERTIFIED NURSE AID (CNA)

Montana CNA Registry, ID# 349140

Certified Since December 2014

NURSE AIDE TRAINING

The Elders Advocacy, LLC, Polson, MT

10/2014 - 12/2014

BACHELOR OF ARTS

College of St. Thomas, St. Paul, MN

May 1982

CONTINUING EDUCATION

POWERFUL TOOLS FOR CAREGIVERS

March 2013

Seminar presented by Western Montana Area IV Agency on Aging

MONTANA GERIATRIC EDUCATION CENTER

November 2015

Continuing education. Four-part class on the Biology of aging, end of life care, health promotion and wellness, and nutrition concerns

LIFE CARE PLANNING

February 2016

Seminar with Jennifer Crowley of Eagleview West

FUTURELEARN

June 2016

University College, London. Four-week class, "The Many Faces of Dementia." Featuring: 1) Familial Alzheimer's Disease 2) Frontotemporal Dementia (Pick's Disease) including Variant FTD, Semantic Dementia, Progressive Nonfluent Aphasia, Logopenic Aphasia 3) Dementia with Lewy Bodies 4) Dementia with Visual Dysfunction Posterior Atrophy

THE VIRTUAL DEMENTIA TOUR

January 2017

The Springs, Whitefish, Montana

WHAT'S NEXT IN DEMENTIA CARE IN MONTANA?

October 2017

Seminar. Montana Geriatric Education Center

MOVEMENT DISORDER SPECIALISTS

May 2018

Webinar. Partners in Parkinson's

UNDERSTANDING DEMENTIA

Winter 2021

University of Tasmania's Wicking Dementia Research & Education Centre