Schedule of Programs & Activities
Make 2012 your family’s Year of CAN-JOY!™
There’s so much we CAN do with JOY to boost cognition, connections, and quality of Life!
Betty’s Brain Boosters™ with Aging Care Connections!
Aging Care Connections and Betty’s Love are partnering to support people in early stages of Alzheimer’s disease and dementia. One of Betty’s Tenets™ is: The sooner we start boosting all our brains, the longer we CAN sustain cognition and enJOY the highest quality of life! Join us for an hour of brain-boosting engagement and learn what activities you need to learn and do, WHY, and ‘how to’ do them …-with Love:
9:30 to 10:30 a.m. – Betty’s Brain Boosters™
Every-other Monday – RSVP today!
Grace Lutheran Church – 200 North Catherine Avenue, La Grange
Instructor: Maureen Gavan
Fee: $9 per person, including brain-boosting materials, treats
Click here for Brain-Boosting MONDAYS – a flyer to print and share!
To RSVP or for more information, contact us.
Also at Grace: Embrace Support Group for People with Dementia
FIRST TUESDAYS
1:30 – 3:00 p.m.
Leader: Maureen Gavan
Thanks to LGHWC for naming Betty’s Love Charity of the Year!
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Thanks for joining us in CAN. JOY!™ What families NEED to know about Alzheimer’s
Book Betty’s Love for a free program like this for Tír Na Nóg – the IAHC seniors group
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Book Betty’s Love for a FREE Family Workshop like we’ve done at Orland Park Library.
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- Scroll down for our full Schedule-with-Love™ Join us in La Grange for Betty’s practical, proven, positive Learning Programs and Activities. Learn all your family CAN do and ‘how to’ do it with Love. Brain-boosting treats and Betty Gavin Signature Hugs-with-Love are always included! Remember: No family is ever turned away for inability to pay. Read more.
- Can’t join us from where you live? Betty’s Love travels! We teach families via phone and Skype, too!
- Prefer privacy? Book one of our Private Family Workshops tailored to your family’s unique needs.
Mondays and Fridays: Betty’s Day Out™ … is IN!
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0 a.m. – 2 p.m. on Mondays and Fridays (per space available)
Betty’s Day Out in your home or ours provides individualized engagement-with-Love™ for your parent, spouse, sibling, child, or anyone who is battling Alzheimer’s disease, dementia, or cognitive impairment (e.g., from stroke, Down syndrome, autism, effects of surgery/injury, etc.). We help determine what parts of Betty’s cognition works best, what can be added, and how to sustain both cognition and JOY. Working with your family, we can then design a personalized daily Team Betty’s Action Plan™ to ensure she or he stays JOY-fully engaged at the highest level for the longest possible time. Note: A modified version of Betty’s Day –Out can be facilitated to families outside the Chicago area. Only an Internet connection, a computer with a camera and microphone, and a free Skype membership are needed.
Betty’s Day Out is only $90 per day and includes delicious, brain-boosting lunch and snacks Mom or Dad CAN help to make! To learn more and for Betty’s Day Out reservations, call 708-420-LOVE (-5683).
Saturday Mornings: Embrace Family Support-Group
10:00 – 11: 30 a.m.
Embrace Meetings are for and led by families – at every age, in every stage, everywhere in the world. Embrace is free, informative, and focused on two things: supporting your family on your unique and unchartable journey; and spreading our practical, proven, positive message: CAN. JOY!™ Facilitated in person, by phone, and via Skype, Embrace IS helping families learn all we CAN do with JOY every day! Embrace is open to individuals, families, friends, and caregivers of ALL illnesses (e.g., Alzheimer’s disease, dementia, Down syndrome, autism, Parkinson’s disease, Multiple Sclerosis, spinal injury, stroke, cancer, …) and, of course, all people needing a Spiritual Embrace, too. Remember: Embrace Meetings are always free.
Please RSVP by 5:00 p.m. Fridays, so we may extend our best Embrace. For more information, call 708-420-LOVE (-5683).
Saturday Afternoons: Betty’s Learning Programs™
Join us in La Grange – and bring your Mom, Dad, and the whole family! Betty’s practical, proven, positive Learning Programs are only $36 per person or $180 per family. Remember: No Betty’s Love Family is ever turned away for inability to pay.
Please RSVP by 3:00 p.m. Fridays. For more information or to book a Private Family Workshop, call 708-420-LOVE (-5683). Or, book us for your child’s school or play group; children love Betty’s Love – and not only for the dark chocolates we always serve!
April 28 – 1:00-3:00 p.m. – Mother’s Day Brunch-with-Love™
Are you anxious about repeating last year’s stress-filled Mother’s Day Brunch? Do you want, instead, to create a memorable (in a happy-memories way) brunch this Mother’s Day for Mom, Dad, and all your family? Wherever in the world* you live – whether you live with Mom, visit Dad, or are a professional caregiver – we help you to celebrate Mother’s Day like only Betty’s Love† CAN – and does! Mom will be happy and pleased. Dad will be proud and calm. ALL the family will have a peace-filled, brain-healthy, Joy-full time … -with-Love!
May 19 – 1:00-3:00 p.m. – A Proper Diagnosis™
One of Betty’s Tenets™ – and one of the main points of discussion in Family Matters, Betty’s University’s essential, foundational program for families like yours. In it, we gather all Gram’s symptoms – some, like dementia, that are all-too-often overlooked as symptom(s) of and/or contributing factor(s) to AD – and help you plan both tests and questions which will ensure your Gram gets all the medical testing and brain-boosting support she can get.
June 16 – 1:00-3:00 p.m. – Therapies-with-Love™
Massage, Yoga, Energy, Occupational Therapies-with-a-Twist. And you thought your days of “Right-Hand-Red” were over! Another Workshop on our Empowerment/Health and Wellness Programming, this two-hour session is taught by a certified Betty’s Love ADvocate. And it comes with perks: One of our ADvocates might just practice on you!
Sunday Afternoons: Betty’s Activities™
Join us in La Grange – and bring your Mom, Dad, and the whole family! Betty’s practical, proven, positive Activities are only $20 per person or $100 per family. Remember: No Betty’s Love Family is ever turned away for inability to pay.
Please RSVP by 3:00 p.m. Fridays.
April 29 – 1:00-3:00 p.m. – All That Remains™
Even in late-stage cognitive decline, there is so much more of Dad present than lost. We promise. We make sure you find it. We’ll teach you this and other Betty’s Tenets™ we believe your family needs to know – and why - and ‘how to’ Care-with-Love for someone in later stages. If you deem it appropriate: Please bring Mom or Dad.
May 20 – 1:00-3:00 p.m. – 411-Bed 1™
We help your Family prepare for surgery and deal with a hospital stay – as both are rife with complications by Alzheimer’s, dementia, and cognitive disabilities. Of course they are. And, in Betty’s Love, of course there is so much we can do to protect Mom’s brain, to keep Dad calm, to ensure the staff practice Care-with-Love for your Blessed Warrior … and yourself.
June 17 – 11:00-12:00 p.m. – Betty’s Love for Lay People™
Your friends, co-workers, in-laws, neighbors want to help you. We help them know the what, why, and how of Betty’s Love. P.S. to you: We’ll also help make sure you let them. [Toldya: We get it.] This combination Empowerment and Embrace Workshop makes certain everyone who wants to support you knows what to do, ‘how to’ do it, and why. This powerful two-hour Program is perfect for Families and church, community, and senior groups. Please bring Mom or Dad!…
June 17 – 12:30-2:00 p.m. – Betty’s Movie Madness (in a GOOD Way!)™
…Stay with Mom or Dad for for an afternoon of JOY-full TV viewing, as we watch old movie bits and reminisce-with-Love! Includes brain-boosting popcorn, too, of course. Even if you can’t join us: Please TURN OFF THE NEWS in your house! Mom or Dad CAN comprehend sad, worrisome – and it will affect their cognition and Joy.
June 30 – 12:30-2:00 p.m. – Betty’s Book Club™
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Join us in person or via Skype as we discuss books and resources which can embrace and empower you into, through, and after your caregiving journeys. Read more about Betty’s Book Club™ (pun very much intended) and join us! Reading materials – and laughter, tea, and dark chocolates – are included.
Consultations, counseling, Betty’s Boot Camp™ and Private Family Workshops are always available by appointment. Call 708-420-LOVE (-5683) or send us an e-mail and let us know how we can help you and your family realize your hopes with all you CAN do with JOY every day … starting today!
Get Busy in Betty’s Love – soon and often – and please bring Mom or Dad! RSVP today for the embracing, empowering, engaging experience that IS Betty’s Love! To receive our notices of news, tips, and special events, please join our Mailing List.