The Summer months are full of cookouts, family & friend gatherings, birthday parties and celebrations. Our friends with diagnosis (FWD) or cognitive impairment and memory loss struggle in big crowds. Use a share the care plan at these get togethers. Allow the primary caregiver to opt out on the plan and relax for the duration of the party. Assign each person a time when they are to sit with the FWD, talk with them, take them for a walk, keep them calm etc. Give them the name of the person they are to tag to take over. Each person spends 20 minutes with the FWD. Children should have a mate accompany them. This is a win for everyone. The person affected visits with everyone and the primary caregiver gets a break.

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Summit Resilience Training was created for families and professional caregivers who have patients and family with dementia and other associated diseases. Summit offers Dementia coping strategies for Alzheimer’s, Lewy Body, and Frontal Temporal through Resilience Training techniques. We teach you how to strategize and develop coping techniques to effectively navigate through the stresses of caring for someone with Alzheimer’s Dementia. Resilience is the ability to adapt to adversity and look for solutions to improve outcomes. These courses are designed to help caregivers and individuals with Alzheimer’s Dementia learn and utilize the best methods to be able to interact with their environments and with any issues caused by health and dementia related behaviors which can produce hardship. In turn, to also create the processes that either promote well-being or protect them against the overwhelming influence of risk factors which could negatively affect their own health as well.