Dementia Programs
Your Brain Health is Important.
With funding from Minnesota Board on Aging, Faith Community Nurse Network is able to help faith communities and organizations become more dementia friendly.
Our Dementia Specialist and our other experienced staff can help you organize a wellness screening event, present on brain health or cognitive decline, support you in hosting Dementia Friends sessions, help you become trained in Powerful Tools for Caregivers, and even give you ideas about how you can make your programming more dementia friendly.
Our Dementia Programming is partially funded through a grant from Minnesota Board On Aging.
Join Us At An Upcoming Dementia Friends Session - All are welcome.
Join a one-hour Dementia Friends Information Session to increase your understanding of dementia and help make your community dementia friendly.
Learn five key messages about dementia, what it’s like to live with the disease and how to turn your understanding into action that supports people living with dementia.
Upcoming Sessions (All times are Central Standard Time)
July 23 @ 1:00 PM - Zoom
Aug 12 @ 5:00 PM - Zoom
Aug 18 @ Noon - Zoom
Sept 10 @ 10:00 AM - Zoom
Oct 1 @ 11:00 AM - In-Person *
{J.J. Hill Community Ed Ctr, 998 Selby Ave, St Paul }
* Registration Information differs from other sessions.
Upcoming Community Education Programs
A Dementia Education Series by Carolyn Klaver
(All times are Central Standard Time)
Th Sept 17 | 3-5 pm | via Zoom
Dementia: Your Role as FCN, Community, Family, Friends
W Sept 30 | 3-5 pm |via Zoom
How to work with Dementia Care Challenges
Th Oct 29 | 3-5 pm | via Zoom
Dementia Communication Techniques
Th Nov 12 | 3-5 pm | via Zoom
Metro Wide (some MN state) Dementia Resources
Dementia and Spirituality
November 9, 2026 from 1-3 PM (CT) / 2-4 ET via Zoom.
Attendees will learn from experts in spiritualty and dementia regarding their work and research (theological practice and lived experience) with people living with dementia in a neuropalliative setting and their caregivers. The first hour will focus on presenting to caregivers with Faith Community Nurses also in attendance. The second hour will focus on education for the Faith Community Nurses. 2 Continuing Education Units will be possible for nurses.
Presenters: from the Palliative Care Research Center and Neuropalliative Care Service at the University of Rochester Medical Center in New York.
