Compassion Amid The Confusion
Alzheimer’s Disease Conference For Professional Caregivers
Wednesday, October 22, 2025 | 8AM-4PM
Compassion Amid the Confusion is a principal conference geared toward persons with early dementia, families, friends, and professionals. The conference is a collaboration among medical personnel and caregivers. This collaboration has worked to create a day designed to inform, educate and support persons with dementia – and their families. Since 1987, leading presenters have come together at St. Patrick’s Manor to ensure the most innovative conference in dementia care for over one-hundred participants, sponsors and exhibitors.
Registration and payment link will open on July 28, 2025
The $150 Program Fee includes 6.0 Professional Continuing Educational Credits, certificate, lunch and parking.
Click the button below to register, make an online payment or mail your check to:
Claire Henry
St. Patrick’s Manor
863 Central St. Framingham, MA 01701
Vendor Tabling Option for Senior Service Providers: $250
(Space Limited to 16 Vendors)
Includes:
- Table (60" X 18") for displaying materials related to your products and services. Giveaways are always popular with attendees and encouraged
- Opportunities to talk with up to 100 professional caregivers about your organization
- Alignment with a conference that has offered education from experts in Alzheimer's Disease research and therapies for nearly 40 years, as well as a symbol of partnership with St. Patrick's Manor, a long-standing, outstanding non-profit Catholic skilled nursing facility that includes long-term, memory care and short-term rehabilitation
Meet Our Speakers!
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
CHRISTINE RITCHIE MD.
8:30am-10:00am
A positive approach to aging and dealing with changes in mental and physical health
Christine is Director of the Dementia Care Collaborative, Co-Director of the Massachusetts Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center (MADRC),Outreach, Recruitment, and Engagement (ORE) Core, Director of Research, Division of Palliative Care, and Geriatric Medicine, Director, of Mongan Institute Center for Aging and Serious Illness, Massachusetts General Hospital.
Dr. Ritchie is a board-certified geriatrician and palliative care physician and conducts research focused on optimizing quality of life for those with chronic serious illness and multimorbidity.
FACULTY
Jin Joo MD.
10:15 - 11:30 am
Associate Professor in the Harvard School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, Division of Geriatric Psychiatry and Neuropsychiatry.
Catherine Munro, PHD - Neuropsychologist
11:30-12:30pm
Instructor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School. Neuropsychological assessment services provider to patients at the Brigham and Women’s Center for Brain/Mind Medicine.
Dr. Chris Dulla, Ph.D.
2:45pm-4:00pm
Professor and Chair, Department of Neuroscience
Director of Translational Epilepsy Research, Tufts University School of Medicine
PANELISTS
1:30 - 2:30pm
Maritza Ciliberto
Caregiver, Research Ambassador
Heily Chavez Granados, BA.
Operations Lead, Outreach, Recruitment, and Engagement (ORE) Core, Massachusetts Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center
Christine M. Brown, BS, MS.
Research Marketing Project Manager, Massachusetts Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center
This conference is presented in partnership with the Massachusetts Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center at Mass General Brigham.
Applications have been made for Continuing Education Credits for RNs, APRN’s, LPNs, Social Workers, Activity Professionals, Nursing Home Administrators, Dietitians and Pastoral Care Professionals.
Contact Claire Henry for more information at chenry@stpatricksmanor.org or 508-370-8523