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