Dinner Meeting with Program: Navigating the Long Term Care Path for Those with Dementia

Date: Wednesday, November 8, 2023
Time: 4:30pm - 7:30pm
Location: LaBelle Winery, Vineyard Ballroom. 14 NH-111, Derry, NH 03028
Speaker: Jennifer Pilcher, Ph.D., CMC, Clear Guidance

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Please join us for our next dinner meeting and program at LaBelle Winery's new location in Derry, NH where we will welcome guest speaker, Jennifer Pilcher, Ph.D.,CMS, who will offer a presentation on navigating the long term care process with a special focus on dementia care and options available today. She will discussion strategies for working with clients facing such a diagnosis. 
 

About Dr. Pilcher: Dr. Pilcher was awarded her doctoral degree in Gerontology from the University of Massachusetts in Boston in 2005. Her professional experience has focused primarily on care and housing arrangements for elders with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias, including policy and fundraising work for the Alzheimer’s Association of Eastern Massachusetts, the Alzheimer’s Association of Utah and the Massachusetts Association of Older Americans.

Prior to founding Clear Guidance in 2018, Dr. Pilcher has had career long experience working with people with dementia and their families. For seven years, Dr. Pilcher was affiliated with Hearthstone Alzheimer Care Assisted Living programs in Massachusetts and New York, where she held a number of management positions. 

For 8 years, Dr. Pilcher worked both as a Care Manager and as the Director of Operations for AZA Care Management of Boston, MA. 

In 2010, she joined Overlook CARE, a non-profit Care Management practice in Greater Boston, as the Clinical Director. In 2016, Dr. Pilcher was promoted to the position of Senior Executive Director of Care Management and Private Care. 

In 2018, Dr. Pilcher founded Clear Guidance in order to return to her passion of working directly with clients and their families. Dr. Pilcher also recently served as President of the Board of the New England Association of Aging Life Care and is the Editor in Chief of the Journal of Aging Life Care.   

In 2022, she was the recipient of both the President’s Award for Leadership and the Outstanding Chapter Member Award from the Aging Life Care Association.

Planning to bring invite a guest? If so, you can register them at the same time as you submit your RSVP or you can share this link with them to register on their own. Members, be sure to choose the "pre-paid" optoion. Guests are $50 each. Wednesday, November 1 is the RSVP deadline! 

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