2024 Maude’s Awards Winners Announced

Alzheimer's Speaks

Lori La Bey talks with the Executive Director of Maudes Awards and a couple of the 2024 Maude’s Awards winners! Joining me is

Marilyn Raichle is the Executive Director of Maude’s Awards, which was created to reward innovations that enrich the quality of life for persons living with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias as well as their care partners. The 2024 Annual Award recipients have just been announced.

Arlieta Hall was a caregiver for her father who lived with Alzheimer’s disease. She used improv and stand-up comedy to communicate with him and took videos of their everyday life which ultimately led to the creation of a documentary: “Finding Your Laughter.”

Roxana Delgado is a Professor and Director of the Caring for the Caregiver program of the School of Nursing at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio

Questions – We are going to talk with a couple of the winners of the 5th Year of Maude’s Awards

1) Have you been touched by Dementia in your own family or circle of friends?

2. Marilyn – you’ve just announced the 2024 awards - - was it a tough decision and how many entries were received this year?

3. Marilyn - being the 5th year – what are the takeaways you have learned from previous years and this year?

4. Arlieta – Tell us about how you discovered that humor worked well for your father’s care and how others could apply humor in their caring journey?

5. Roxana -Tell us how the Caring for the Caregiver Program (C4CP) came to be and how caregivers benefit from this?

Learn:

1. About Maude's Awards - Who can apply, what they might win, and how and when you can apply!

2. Find out about Arlieta Hall, use of humor with dementia and how it's changing lives

3. About the work Roxana Delgado, PhD is doing at the University of Texas Health Science Center of San Antonio - Caring for the Caregiver Program (C4CP) came to be and how caregivers benefit from this.

Watch the Video Interview Below

https://youtu.be/BMg2PWeebXk

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Contact Information

Maudes Awards

www.maudesawards.org

Arlieta Hall

Website www.findingyourlaughter.com

Website https://arlietahall.com

Roxana Delgado, PhD - University of Texas Health Science Center of San Antonio

Website https://utcaregivers.org

Website www.uthscsa.edu

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