2022 Summit Portal
Moving Forward: 2022 Dementia Friendly Community Summit
Thursday, September 29, 2022
9:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Continuing 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. with The Remember Project’s world premiere of their theatrical video, "Mango Songs"
Session videos and PowerPoints
Brain Health Empowers You to Choose How You Will Age as You Live
Sarah Lenz Lock, Senior Vice President for Policy, AARP and Executive Director, Global Council on Brain Health - Download presentation PowerPoint.
Dementia through the Viewfinder of Multiple Cultures
Mayla Yang, Senior LinkAge Line specialist, Trellis, Moderator
Dr. Ibrahim Elemo, M.D, M.P.H, founding member of International Oromo Health Professional Association
Diane Grooms, Retired, Elder Services/Housing Specialist at American Indian Community Development Corporation
Roxana Linares, Executive Director, Centro Tyrone Guzman
Risk Reduction: What Can a Community Do?
Maiyia Kasouaher, Ph.D., Planner Senior Community, Minnesota Department of Health
Jen Rooney, ACT on Alzheimer, Program Developer
About this event
The 2022 Community Summit will spotlight activities from around the state and provide opportunities for participants to learn from each other, make new connections and re-energize our work.
We are excited to offer in-person gatherings at three locations across Minnesota as well as a virtual option. Attend at Carondelet Village in Saint Paul; Redwood Area Community Center, Redwood Falls; Lake Superior College in Duluth or online.
Join us to:
- Listen to keynote speaker, Sarah Lenz Lock, Senior Vice President for Policy for AARP and Executive Director of the Global Council on Brain Health.
- Hear from communities who are doing great work and learn from their successes and challenges.
- Explore various cultural approaches to living with and caring for people with dementia.
- Learn about research and initiatives for risk reduction from the Minnesota Department of Health.
- Be the first to see the new The Remember Project play, Mango Songs, and participate in powerful discussions about themes raised in the play.
This Summit is for you! People leading dementia-friendly community efforts, Dementia Friends and Champions, healthcare providers, civic leaders, senior center staff, volunteers, people with dementia-related illnesses, caregivers . . . anyone interested in making their communities more dementia friendly.
About "Mango Songs"
Join us for the world premeire of Mango Songs, a new play by Alia Jeraj. The play follows Alia’s journey of (re)membering/(re)learning. From the intimacy of witnessing their dad’s Alzheimer’s, to the memory loss that happens when families move across oceans and adopt new languages and customs, Alia asks, “How do you find a memory everyone has forgotten?”
This is an extraordinary opportunity to join other Summit attendees in the often life-changing experience of The Remember Project, using theater arts to open authentic and insightful dialogue among participants.
Playwright and Actor: Alia Jeraj
Director: Suzy Messerole & Aamera Siddiqui
Director of Photography: Hannah Robb
The theatrical video for "Mango Songs" is a creative collaboration between The Remember Project and Exposed Brick Theatre.
ACT on Alzheimer's is one of a family of dementia friendly initiatives supported by:
