MICHIGAN DEMENTIA COALITION
The Michigan Dementia Coalition is a group of organizations and individuals working together to improve quality of life for people living with dementia and their families. We are powered by our passion. Our vision is to make Michigan a dementia capable state.
The Fall 2024 meeting of the Michigan Dementia Coalition took place on Friday, October 11, 2024. If you missed the meeting or would like to watch it again, a recording is available at:
Please mark your calendars for our 2025 Michigan Dementia Coalition meetings:
Friday, February 14, 2025, 10:00-noon
Friday, June 13, 2025, 10:00-noon
Friday, October 10, 2025, 10:00-noon
All meetings take place over Zoom.
Sign up below to join the Coalition to receive our meeting links and reminders,
or contact Dayna Streng at strengd@michigan.gov or Lisa Cooper at Lisa@DementiaMinds.org for more information.
Big Stuff Brewing:
In October 2023, the State of Michigan was awarded a $1.85 million Building Our Largest Dementia Infrastructure (a/k/a BOLD) federal grant. The Michigan Dementia Coalition is currently working with the Dementia & Healthy Brain Unit at the Michigan Department of Health & Human Services to develop the state's new Dementia Roadmap -- or as BOLD calls it, our new strategic plan.
MDC Roadmap Summary 2023 Update.3.10.23.pdfFIND A SPEAKER
Members of the Michigan Dementia Coalition have expertise in many different areas, and some of us offer public presentations in our individual professional capacities.
Visit our Speakers Bureau page to find Michigan Dementia Coalition members who can offer talks on a variety of dementia-related topics, at no cost to your organization.
The voices, stories, expertise and passions of many of our Michigan Dementia Coalition members are featured on this inspiring and informative podcast by Patrick Dunn of Second Wave Media:
Michigan's State of Health Podcast
Changing the Conversation
About Dementia
https://www.secondwavemedia.com/series/state-of-health-podcast.aspx
Michigan Dementia Coalition
ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY GUIDE
for Living with Dementia
People living with dementia may face challenges to their abilities to manage everyday tasks, but technology can help!
The Michigan Dementia Coalition's Supportive Services Committee developed this guide to help introduce people living with dementia and their care partners to the growing ways in which technology can assist us in living well.
Assistive Technology Guide July 2022.pdf
Jennifer Lepard
Alzheimer's Association Michigan
Lisa Dedden Cooper
National Council of Dementia MInds
Amanda Leggett
Wayne State University
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MDC Roadmap Summary 2023 Update.3.10.23.pdf