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‘Self-Care, Mindfulness and Remaining Positive’ Webinar: April 16, 2020
Caregivers can learn how to manage and reduce stress during an Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration (AFTD) online webinar on Thursday, April 16, 2020, at 4 p.m. EDT (1 p.m. PDT). “Self-Care, Mindfulness and Remaining Positive” will be presented by AFTD Ambassador Corey Esannason, RYT. AFTD Scientific Director Nadine Tatton, Ph.D., will facilitate. Pre-registration is required. This webinar offers…
Caregivers can learn how to manage and reduce stress during an Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration (AFTD) online webinar on Thursday, April 16, 2020, at 4 p.m. EDT (1 p.m. PDT).
“Self-Care, Mindfulness and Remaining Positive” will be presented by AFTD Ambassador Corey Esannason, RYT. AFTD Scientific Director Nadine Tatton, Ph.D., will facilitate. Pre-registration is required.
This webinar offers participants the opportunity to learn a variety of stress-management and stress-reduction techniques, as well as simple mindfulness-based exercises such as breathing and relaxation practices. It will be helpful to have a pen and paper available during the webinar.
Corey Esannason is a yoga educator whose mother was diagnosed with FTD in 2011. Her combined passion for moving and learning inspires her work, which provides yoga programming to adults and children throughout Westchester County, New York.
Watch a recording of the webinar below.
Caring for a loved one with FTD is a difficult journey even in the best of times. Over the last month, its difficulty has grown exponentially, as social distancing and quarantining have become a common way of life. Throughout April, AFTD is offering webinars reflecting material originally developed for the 2020 AFTD Education Conference, which was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This material has been adapted to reflect the current climate.
This is the second presentation in the AFTD's 2020 Education Conference: Webinar Series. These webinars are free and can benefit anyone currently managing FTD, whether they have been diagnosed themselves, are a care partner to a person diagnosed, or work as a healthcare professional. Recordings of all webinars will be posted to the AFTD website.
The webinar series has been made available by several sponsors, including Alector, Biogen, Ionis, Buffalo Trace Distillery, Arden Courts Memory Care Community, Passage Bio, Bernhard Metzger, and Broadmead Center of Excellence Dementia Care.
Mark your calendar for these upcoming sessions in the AFTD 2020 Education Conference Webinar Series:
Ask the Expert: FTD and COVID-19
- Presenter: Bruce Miller, M.D., University of California, San Francisco
- Date: Friday, April 24, 2020
- Time: 1:30 p.m. EDT
The Playlist of My Life: Building a Toolbox for FTD
- Presenter: The Very Rev. Tracey Lind, dean emeritus, Trinity Episcopal Church (Cleveland, OH)
- Date: Thursday, April 30, 2020
- Time: 4:00 p.m. EDT
AFTD’s Mission in a Changing World
- Presenter: Susan L-J Dickinson, MS, AFTD; David Pfeifer, AFTD Board chair
- Thursday, May 7, 2020
- 4:00 p.m. EDT (1:00 p.m. PDT)
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