Meet Our Dementia Friends Champions at Service Area 9
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.
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!!
Both Judy Kleine and I work for Midland Area Agency on Aging, 434 S Poplar, Centralia, IL 62801
What Dementia Friendly Community are you a part of?
Judy Kleine and I are leads for the Effingham, Salem and Vandalia Dementia Friendly Communities (Area 09)
Where are you located for giving talks?
Judy Kleine and I are available in the five counties we cover Clay, Effingham, Fayette, Jefferson and Marion Counties (Area 09)
What do you like about Dementia Friends?
I feel like Dementia Friends has been a way to understand better how to serve our clients and their caregivers. The five key messages are very meaningful to me as well.
Quickly navigate through our collection of videos by selecting a category. Click on any topic to jump directly to relevant videos and explore insights on dementia, caregiving, brain health, and more.
Video Categories
Alzheimer’s Disease and Dementia
Dementia Caregivers
Dementia Friends/Dementia Friendly
Exercise and Physical Activity
For Professionals (The Brain Trust Project Podcast)
Healthy Aging
Home Safety/Fall Prevention
Living with Dementia
Maintaining Quality of Life
Social Isolation
Support Groups (Without Warning and Toolkit Project)
Videos in Spanish (Vídeos en Español)
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