{"id":12250,"date":"2025-05-06T12:24:39","date_gmt":"2025-05-06T16:24:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/officeofcommunityengagedlearning\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=12250"},"modified":"2025-05-06T12:25:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T16:25:11","slug":"ofa-empowered-caregiver-series-responding-to-dementia-related-behaviors","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/officeofcommunityengagedlearning\/event\/ofa-empowered-caregiver-series-responding-to-dementia-related-behaviors\/","title":{"rendered":"OFA Empowered Caregiver Series: Responding to Dementia-Related Behaviors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Caring for someone living with dementia brings a unique set of challenges and rewards. Learn to navigate the responsibilities of middle and late-stage caregiving in this educational program, presented by the Alzheimer&#8217;s Association Hudson Valley Chapter (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.alz.org\/hudsonvalley\">www.alz.org\/hudsonvalley<\/a>) at the Dutchess County Office for the Aging.<\/p>\n<p>Each session takes place on a Tuesday at 3:00pm. Seating is limited, so reservations are required. Call the Office for the Aging to save your seat at any session(s) you are able to attend, at 845-486-2555 during business hours. We cannot accept reservation requests made via voice mail or email.<\/p>\n<p>Topics in the program include:<\/p>\n<p>May 6 &#8211; Building foundations of caregiving<\/p>\n<p>May 13 &#8211; Supporting independence<\/p>\n<p>May 20 &#8211; Communicating effectively<\/p>\n<p>May 27 &#8211; Responding to dementia-related behaviors<\/p>\n<p>June 3 &#8211; Exploring care and support services<\/p>\n<p>This free program is open to caregivers of all ages and is supported in part by a grant from the New York State Department of Health.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Caring for someone living with dementia brings a unique set of challenges and rewards. Learn to navigate the responsibilities of middle and late-stage caregiving in this educational program, presented by &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/officeofcommunityengagedlearning\/event\/ofa-empowered-caregiver-series-responding-to-dementia-related-behaviors\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;OFA Empowered Caregiver Series: Responding to Dementia-Related Behaviors&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11305,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[],"class_list":["post-12250","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/officeofcommunityengagedlearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/12250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/officeofcommunityengagedlearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/officeofcommunityengagedlearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/officeofcommunityengagedlearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11305"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/officeofcommunityengagedlearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/12250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12251,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/officeofcommunityengagedlearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/12250\/revisions\/12251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/officeofcommunityengagedlearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/officeofcommunityengagedlearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12250"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/officeofcommunityengagedlearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=12250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}