Learning Programs
“When I recently moved my Mom from independent living to a nursing home (bypassing the hope-for assisted living), hard as it was, what I learned from [Betty's Love] helped me to make the decisions with confidence and strength.”
— Mary P. in Chicago
Welcome to Betty’s University!™ Wherever in the world you live, whatever stage of your journey you travel, we’ll teach you and your family:
- What you need to know
- Why
- ‘How to’ do it … -with-Love™
Join us for our upcoming programs! Facilitated for as little as $9* per person, all Betty’s Programs™ are one- or two-hour and practical, proven, and positive. Informed by more than 30 years of research and first-hand experience, Betty’s Programs are designed to support, inform, and engage:
- Individuals – to know all they can do to build and sustain brain health and to live with Joy through every stage of their unique and unchartable journeys.
- Families, friends, and caregivers – so they know Joy, too, and what – and ‘how to’ and why – to do to Care-with-Love for their families and themselves.
- Schoolchildren – to learn ‘how to’ Love As an Action Verb when interacting with their grandparents and elders … and to rear new generations of engaged, brain-healthy, Care-with-Love practitioners!
- Professional care givers, administrators, and staff – to learn Betty’s Best Practices in Caring-with-Love for their residents, guests, and one another.
- ‘Lay’ people of all generations - to learn Betty’s Best Practices and to make The New Paradigm and choosing brain health ‘the norm’ around the world.
*No family is ever turned away for inability to pay. We’re Betty’s Love: We get it.
We facilitate all Betty’s Programs: in our Heartquarters in La Grange, Illinois; in your family’s home or community; and/or by phone (to multiple locations, if your Family, like so many, is dispersed) or via Skype (a free service which we can arrange simply for you). Read what families like yours have to say about Betty’s Love. Then read about Betty’s Tenets™ and Betty’s Three Steps™ we recommend your family takes first.
Betty’s Learning Programs inform all ages, at all stages, wherever in the world you live. At least one Betty’s Program is designed around each of these fundamental questions:
- Why is ‘AND’ such an important concept in Betty’s Love?
- What do you need to know and do if Mom goes into hospital?
- What might Dad’s ‘fender benders’ really mean?
- What CAN you do while visiting Dad when (seemingly) he is often upset?
- Why ought we stop focusing on what Uncle Charles cannot do/remember?
- How CAN you possibly handle this?!
- What ought every generation be eating every day to nourish the brain?
- How can you help your children understand Alzheimer’s disease?
- How does a son change his mother’s diapers?
- What might be the hardest parts of our journey (and why and ‘how to’ get through them)?
- What does birth order have to do with our cognition?
- How do you know your wife had a proper diagnosed – and what do you do with it?
- Why might I stop using anti-perspirant?
- What support can I offer my friend who has/is living with Alzheiemer’s/dementia?
- When is it time to find a home for Mom?
- What does gender have to do with our cognition?
- What do people with no first-hand experience of dementia nonetheless need to know?
- How CAN journaling for JOY change our daily experience?
- What does culture have to do with our cognition?
- Why is sharing a cuppa with Betty such a brain-boosting idea?
- What is “Alzheimer’s Heaven?”
- How do we build brain reserve (and why ought every generation do so)?
- To whom ought ‘oxygen’ first be administered?
- What is Caregiving-with-Love™ (including why and ‘how to’)?
- How do you tell your husband he has Alzheimer’s, so traumatic for him with his own Dad?
- How can Aunt Dorothy still enJOY going to a restaurant for breakfast?
- What questions ought we be asking our doctor(s)? attorney? financier? caregiver? … et al
- What if my sister gets Early-Onset Alzheimer’s when only 43 years old?
- How CAN Mom enJOY graduations? weddings? theatre? all special events?
- What CAN every family member do to support Grandpa?
- How do you find their Joy?
- What CAN we do to support a family living with Autism?
- How are our brains like leafless trees (and what CAN we do about it)?
- How CAN the holidays be ‘happy’ days?
- How CAN we find JOY in Aunt Mary’s last days?
- Why keep visiting Gram when (seemingly) she doesn’t know who you are?
- How CAN I let go of my wife of 52 years?
- How/Why do I Live-with-Love™ at each stage of an Alzheimer’s journey?
- What CAN we do to support a family living with Parkinson’s disease?
- What do families with children (of any age) who have Down syndrome need to know?
- How do we Love – As an Action Verb?
- What can you do if your sister is in denial about Mom’s thinking – or her own?
- What is really happening to Mom’s or Dad’s ‘memory’ (and what if it’s not what you think)?
- How CAN young children connect with their Nannie?
- How can you help your children understand Alzheimer’s disease?
- What is The New Paradigm (and why is it even needed)?
- How CAN I ‘Keep it within the day, ’Reen” (our #1 Tip o’the Day™)?
- CAN/How CAN my siblings get on the same page in caring for Mom?
- Why seek a diagnosis/caregiver/home for Dad sooner than later?
- How CAN our family share in Caring-with-Love for our Dad?
- What therapies CAN restore Dad’s JOY (and peace)?
- CAN/How CAN Dad join the family on a Summer vacation?
- Why is Uncle Jim’s Alzheimer’s journey so different from Aunt Mary’s – and so unpredictable?
- What ought parents of special-needs children know (and do – including for themselves)?
- Family Matters™ – ‘Betty’s Love 101′ – answers questions including your family’s and:
- What do we believe your family needs to know?
- Is it normal for my Mom to be doing….?
- How do we get your Dad to stop driving his car?
- What do you tell friends and colleagues when they notice your wife’s memory and cognition problems?
- What all CAN your family do to find JOY every day?
- Where can you find support (from someone who truly understands what you’re experiencing)?
- Why does Betty’s Love only focus on families (and not lobby or raise money for research)?
Betty’s™ Empowering Programs and Services – starting with Family Matters™ – answer all your questions, are as diverse as your family, and are tailored to meet your family’s unique needs. Betty’s Programs can also be facilitated in Private Family Workshops.
NEXT / NOW / ALWAYS … ENGAGE!
Once your family finds the support you need and gets the information you deserve: Get busy in Betty’s Day Out™ AND Betty’s Movie Madness™ AND Betty’s Brain Boosters … AND, AND, AND! Read why AND is so important for ALL ages. And remember:
There is so much families CAN do with JOY to boost cognition, connections, and quality of life.
AND: The sooner you start engaging Mom & Dad, the longer they CAN remain at the highest possible levels of cognition and JOY!
Contact Betty’s Love today and start learning what your family needs to know, why, and ‘how to’ do it … -with-Love. Betty’s Love will help your family find JOY today – wherever in the world you live! We do it every day.
Betty’s Three Things™ every family can do today include:
1. Begin with Family Matters – it will teach you Betty’s Basics and Tenets and a ‘common language’ with which (and common ground upon which) your family can journey … together.
2. Be gentle with yourselves … and one another.
3. Breathe. You can handle this … one day, one hour, one breath at a time.
BIG NEWS: All of these Betty’s Programs (and more) will soon be available in downloadable formats! In the meantime, please let us know what your family needs to know. Subscribe to our Mailing List and stay abreast of all upcoming Betty’s Love Lessons.