Transforming Memory Care
Through education, collaboration, and supportAfter my husband’s Alzheimer’s diagnosis, the DCC support group helped me cope with my new responsibilities and accept the uncertainty of what’s to come."
About the Dementia Care Collaborative
The Dementia Care Collaborative was created to educate and support patients, caregivers, healthcare providers, and the community. Dedicated team members offer opportunities for learning and connecting across the hospital and into the community at large. We are here to teach new ways of understanding dementia, how to best communicate and partner with those with dementia and offer support and guidance for caregivers to feel empowered to foster their own wellbeing and resilience.
The Dementia Care Collaborative is part of the MGH Division of Palliative Care & Geriatric Medicine and is an umbrella for the Dementia Caregiver Support Program and the Memory Care Program.
The Dementia Care Collaborative has been funded by the generosity of supporting individuals and foundations including the Jack Satter Foundation and The Bresky Foundation since its inception in 2017. Please give today to support our mission to transform memory care.
Conversations With Caregivers
Support Amidst the Uncertainty: How Palliative Care and Hospice can Help Across the Trajectory of Dementia with Mark Stoltenberg, MD, MA
November 19, 2024 5:30- 7:00pm EST
The trajectory of illness that a person living with dementia will follow is often long and winding. Where along that trajectory can palliative care offer support and guidance? How does palliative care differ from hospice? And just what is hospice now that you mentioned it? This session will review when and how palliative care and hospice services can support patients and their families.
Mark Stoltenberg, MD, MPH, MA is a palliative care physician at MGH and Harvard Medical School where he serves as the medical director for the MGB home-based palliative care program and the co-director of the MGH global palliative care program. Dr. Stoltenberg’s work focuses on innovative and collaborative methods of responding to the suffering of the most vulnerable, both locally and globally. He has led palliative care projects across the Caribbean, East Africa and Latin America, worked as an international consultant for the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) and the International Atomic Energy Association (IAEA) and currently leads a sub-group for the World Health Organization (WHO) Palliative Care working group.
Join us Tuesday, November 19, 2024 at 5:30 – 7:00pm EST via Zoom.
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Mark Stoltenberg, MD, MA
Supported by the Center for Women, Wellness & Wealth, Inspired by Berkshire Bank; the Bresky Foundation and the Satter Foundation.
Health and Resiliency
Nourishment Through Nutrition with Helen Delichatsios, MD, SM
December 3, 2024 5:30-6:30pm EST
Nourishment comes from a variety of sources. What sorts of foods we eat, how much we hydrate, how much we sleep, time in nature, time for our relationships and community, our consumption of social media and news and more. In this program, Helen Delichatsios, MD, will share her expertise on how we can make simple choices to nourish our bodies and minds as best we can with the foods we decide to put on our plates. This program is not about diets, scarcity or deprivation! Join us to learn a few new ways to our approach to eating in a more nutritious and mindful way.
Dr. Delichatsios is a clinician-educator at MGH where she has an active Primary Care practice. She develops educational tools on nutrition and her research interests and publications concern effective nutrition and obesity counseling methods in outpatient practice. Dr. Delichatsios is a founding and integral member of the Healthy Lifestyle Program (HLP) at MGH where she leads the Nutrition and Culinary Medicine initiatives, including working with patients in the new MGH Revere Teaching Kitchen. Helen directs the inaugural Culinary Medicine and Nutrition elective at Harvard Medical School (HMS). A graduate of Cornell University Medical College, Helen completed her Internal Medicine residency at Cornell New York Hospital and earned a Master of Science degree in Epidemiology at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health. In 2024, Helen completed her Chef degree at the Cambridge School of Culinary Arts.
Join us Tuesday, December 3, 2024 at 5:30 – 6:30pm EST via Zoom.
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Helen Delichatsios, MD, SM
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