A Mindful Path to Resilience

Resilience plays a vital role for people living with dementia and their care partners. For people living with dementia, resilience helps you adapt to the challenges posed by cognitive decline and changes in daily life.  It helps care partners adapt to the challenges of caring for them, maintain emotional balance and find effective coping strategies. Resilience empowers you to face each day with courage, adaptability and emotional strength. 

Mindfulness practice fosters resilience by allowing one to be fully present in the moment, navigate challenges with clarity and approach care with compassion.  Practicing mindfulness involves focusing on the present moment, which can lead to improved emotional resilience and reduced stress. 

Join Angela Lunde, Program Manager at the Mayo Clinic Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center, for a discussion on how mindfulness helps identify unique struggles and creates a path of resilience through acceptance and mindful practices. Angela will lead participants through some brief mindfulness exercises and provide resources to support engagement in mindfulness at home.   

Angela will be joined by a panel of true experts, individuals living with Lewy and care partners, who will share how they utilize mindfulness practices to support their resilience. A brief Q&A session will follow. 

At the end of this webinar, you will be able to: 

1. Define resilience and identify how mindfulness practice can support resilience for people living with LBD and care partners.
2. Summarize the factors associated with resilience for people living with dementia and care partners.
3. Identify resources that can be utilized to promote resilience and establish mindfulness practice at home. 

Register at: https://events.zoom.us/ev/Anrz_Iqh_VXTibo6ydC361ZNbOu-V6QGcY5FjNWyv5_kugeWCC2i~Ag_IuA__ofTi4UR3L1-PLbsaEAOaIlMi3hR5G1RKQ5F5koWdbb0C-BXmkw

About Angela Lunde 

Angela Lunde, M.A., is an Associate in Neurology at the Mayo Clinic. Her interests and focus are in the emotional and quality of life factors experienced in those living with dementia and caregivers.  She is involved in numerous partnerships focused on reducing stigma, improving well-being and support in the inclusion of person living with dementia into everyday community life. 

Ms. Lunde has professional training in mindfulness-based therapies, grief and loss, Dignity Therapy, wellness coaching and yoga. She was the co-creator of HABIT – Healthy Actions to Benefit Independence and Thinking®, a multi-component program that builds on existing strengths and the empowerment that comes from supportive relationships. 

Ms. Lunde is the author of the new book Day to Day Living with Dementia (2022 Mayo Clinic Press) and co-author of Mayo Clinic on Alzheimer’s Disease and Other Dementias (2020 Mayo Clinic Press). In addition, she has contributed to numerous articles and scientific publications on mild cognitive impairment, dementia and caregiving.  

For questions or more information, please contact Rose Heithoff, Education Coordinator, at rheithoff@lbda.org.