Most importantly, self-compassion helps preserve your sense of identity and joy, ensuring that you don’t lose yourself in the process of caring for others.

Through this webinar, you’ll learn how cultivating kindness toward yourself fosters clarity, strengthens motivation, and enhances the quality of care you provide.

Caregiving can be overwhelming, and while self-criticism is a natural response, it often leads to exhaustion and emotional strain.

Join this session for National Family Caregivers Month for a special webinar dedicated to care partners of individuals with Lewy Body Dementia. In this empowering session, we’ll explore the transformative practice of self-compassion—an essential tool for sustaining well-being and resilience.

Scientists led by Jasmeer Chhatwal, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, found that a greater step count slowed tangle pathology and cognitive decline, especially in those who had been sedentary or who started out with high levels of amyloid in their brain.

That physical activity protects against cognitive decline is not new, but no work has tracked how it affects both amyloid plaques and neurofibrillary tangles, until now.

Sundowning is a common neuropsychiatric symptom of dementia-related illnesses that can be challenging for caregivers. This episode will explain sundowning and its symptoms; describe how it can be addressed; and provide practical steps caregivers can take.

Guest Speaker:
Jeremy Koppel, MD

Join us to learn about Alzheimer’s Association care and support resources that can help navigate these challenges and discover ways to live well with Alzheimer’s or dementia.

These volunteers help caregivers in a way that medical practitioners cannot, sharing in-the-trenches experience and advice.

Uniquely in the support group community, 20% of BSN meeting attendees are volunteers who have followed a loved-one through the inevitable decline and death that these disorders bring.

Meetings allow caregivers to receive support from others who have lived this experience and can provide information, practical insights, and empathy.

The speaker will share non-drug options that can help relieve PD symptoms and enhance daily well-being and explain functional medicine’s focus on root causes and whole-body wellness for a deeper understanding of how these therapies can provide a more balanced approach to PD management.