Service Area 5
Meet Our Dementia Friends Champions at Service Area 5
Get to know the passionate leaders driving the Dementia Friends movement across Illinois, dedicated to fostering understanding and building supportive communities for those living with dementia.
Shelia Greuel
Where do you work?
Independent Consultant Serving East Central Illinois Area Agency on Aging as their Community Liaison
What Dementia Friendly Community are you a part of?
Working to Develop Dementia Friendly Communities in PSA 05 serving East Central Illinois. I am currently working with the Dementia Friendly Decatur Task Force to help them work through the process and submit an application to join the Dementia Friendly Network.
Where are you located for giving talks?
What do you like about Dementia Friends?
Dementia Friends follows my belief that Knowledge is Power. Helping to raise public awareness by speaking publicly about practical ways to become more aware and effectively engage in persons living with dementia in the community, can only help to increase their ability to thrive in the community while having purpose and meaning in their lives.
Shelia Greuel
Where do you work?
Independent Consultant Serving East Central Illinois Area Agency on Aging as their Community Liaison
What Dementia Friendly Community are you a part of?
Working to Develop Dementia Friendly Communities in PSA 05 serving East Central Illinois. I am currently working with the Dementia Friendly Decatur Task Force to help them work through the process and submit an application to join the Dementia Friendly Network.
Where are you located for giving talks?
What do you like about Dementia Friends?
Dementia Friends follows my belief that Knowledge is Power. Helping to raise public awareness by speaking publicly about practical ways to become more aware and effectively engage in persons living with dementia in the community, can only help to increase their ability to thrive in the community while having purpose and meaning in their lives.
Shannon Nosbisch
Where do you work?
Co-founder of Effingham Area Alzheimer’s Awareness, a non-profit organization whose mission is to educate and support people living with dementia, their families and caregivers.
What Dementia Friendly Community are you a part of?
Effingham Area Alzheimer’s Awareness is partnering with Midland Area Agency on Aging to make Effingham County and the City of Effingham a dementia friendly community.
Where are you located for giving talks?
Effingham, Fayette, Clay, Cumberland, Jasper, Shelby and Coles Counties
What do you like about Dementia Friends?
I believe that making communities dementia friendly is extremely important. Families, caregivers and people living with dementia want to lead as normal of a life as possible. If all businesses, agencies, organizations, and people in general are educated about dementia, understand dementia and can communicate with someone with dementia, it makes our communities such a great place to live!!!
Meet Our Dementia Friends Champions at Service Area 5
Get to know the passionate leaders driving the Dementia Friends movement across Illinois, dedicated to fostering understanding and building supportive communities for those living with dementia.
Shelia Greuel
Where do you work?
Independent Consultant Serving East Central Illinois Area Agency on Aging as their Community Liaison
What Dementia Friendly Community are you a part of?
Working to Develop Dementia Friendly Communities in PSA 05 serving East Central Illinois. I am currently working with the Dementia Friendly Decatur Task Force to help them work through the process and submit an application to join the Dementia Friendly Network.
Where are you located for giving talks?
What do you like about Dementia Friends?
Dementia Friends follows my belief that Knowledge is Power. Helping to raise public awareness by speaking publicly about practical ways to become more aware and effectively engage in persons living with dementia in the community, can only help to increase their ability to thrive in the community while having purpose and meaning in their lives.
Kathryn Johnson
CWhere do you work?
East Central Illinois Area Agency on Aging
What Dementia Friendly Community are you a part of?
We are the Champion Agency for Dementia Friendly Moultrie County
I am on the Leadership Team for Dementia Friendly Decatur and Dementia Friendly Champaign-Urbana
Where are you located for giving talks?
Our office is located in Bloomington. We serve 16 counties including Champaign, Clark, Coles, Cumberland, DeWitt, Douglas, Edgar, Ford, Iroquois, Livingston, Macon, McLean, Moultrie, Piatt, Shelby and Vermilion.
What do you like about Dementia Friends?
I am dedicated to spreading the message that people living with dementia can lead active, fulfilling lives with strong community support. A key part of this work involves reducing the pervasive stigma associated with dementia-related diseases, recognizing that an individual is always more than their diagnosis. Through this movement, I support various community sectors in fostering a more welcoming and inclusive environment for everyone.
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Shannon Nosbisch
Where do you work?
Co-founder of Effingham Area Alzheimer’s Awareness, a non-profit organization whose mission is to educate and support people living with dementia, their families and caregivers.
What Dementia Friendly Community are you a part of?
Effingham Area Alzheimer’s Awareness is partnering with Midland Area Agency on Aging to make Effingham County and the City of Effingham a dementia friendly community.
Where are you located for giving talks?
Effingham, Fayette, Clay, Cumberland, Jasper, Shelby and Coles Counties
What do you like about Dementia Friends?
I believe that making communities dementia friendly is extremely important. Families, caregivers and people living with dementia want to lead as normal of a life as possible. If all businesses, agencies, organizations, and people in general are educated about dementia, understand dementia and can communicate with someone with dementia, it makes our communities such a great place to live!!!