Resources

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• Increase your understanding of memory loss issues, whether you are needing information for your parent, your spouse, or yourself.
• Web page: www.WorriedAboutMemoryLoss.com

• Pine Rest's Center for Senior Care announces the release of Knowledge and Skills Needed for Dementia Care: A Guide for Direct Care Workers. The guide is available now, and can be downloaded and printed at no charge as a PDF document. The guide in everyday language is also available to be downloaded and printed at no charge. PDF document.

• Consumers, community groups, academics from various Michigan universities, and state government representatives work together as the Michigan Dementia Coalition. Their purpose is to improve the quality of life of persons with dementia and their families in Michigan.
• Web page: www.dementiacoalition.org

• Pine Rest's Center for Senior Care announces the completion of a Mental Health Roadmap, which details mental health services available in Kent County Michigan.  
• This Mental Health Roadmap is an outgrowth of the Creating Communities for a Lifetime initiative, a joint effort initiated through the Grand Rapids Community Foundation and the Area Agency on Aging of Western Michigan to help Kent County become "elder friendly." 
• The Mental Health Roadmap was a collaborative project between with the Area Agency on Aging of Western Michigan, Cherry Street Health Services, Disability Advocates, Network 180, and Pine Rest. 
• The guide is available now, and can be downloaded and printed at no charge as a PDF document.

For more information, call 616/222-4550.