Free educational series could help those with mild cognitive Impairment or mild dementia
Family members welcome to attend
Baptist Health Medical Group Neurology and Baptist Health HealthwoRx Fitness & Wellness Center will offer Brainworks, a free educational series for those with mild cognitive impairment or mild dementia, each Wednesday in October at HealthwoRx in Lexington Green.
Scheduled from 2 to 3:30 p.m., each program in the four-week series is designed to offer attendees information to help them live well and take control of their health. Family members are welcome to attend. Topics and speakers are:
Oct. 5 – “Living Well with a Diagnosis of MCI or Dementia,” Greg Cooper, MD, PhD, neurologist with Baptist Health Medical Group Neurology and the Memory Care Clinic.
Oct. 12 – “Mind over Matter: Strategies for Memory and Thinking,” Jessica Wilmore, MS, CCC-SLP, Speech-Language Pathology at Baptist Health Lexington
Oct.19 – “Eat, Move, Live: How Food and Movement Protect Memory,” Melanie Johnson, MS, RD, LD, HealthwoRx dietitian, and Grant Gensheimer, MS, CPT, HealthwoRx exercise physiologist
Oct. 26 – “Coping and Adjusting to a Memory Loss Diagnosis,” April Stauffer, MS, Alzheimer’s Association, and Stephanie Freeman, MSSW, Baptist Health Memory Care Clinic
To register or learn more about the series, call 859.260.4354.
This article also appears on page 16 of the October 2016 printed edition of the Hamburg Journal. For more Hamburg area news, subscribe to the Hamburg Journal weekly digital newsletter.
