Dementia Letters Project

Dementia Education and Creative Aging

Living Fully Alive with Dementia.

Life with Dementia doesn’t have to be void of beauty and joy. We work together to find the balance between sorrow and flourishing.

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Imagine living a flourishing life while on this dementia journey.

The Dementia Letters Project exists to help you translate brain scans into connection, burnout into creativity, and doom and gloom into beauty and joy. This is accomplished through speaking engagements, workshops, and life enrichment programming.

Whether you are a professional caregiver or a family care partner, you deserve community and connection. When we look at the person before us, we should see a full person, with dignity, with gifts to still give (yes, even in late stage dementia), and with respect for what it means to live well in this very moment.

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Family Engagement

Creative Aging

We Are Storytellers

“There is something in us, as storytellers and as listeners to stories, that demands the redemptive act, that demands that what falls as least be offered the chance to be restored.”

– Flannery O’Connor

Write Your Story

Educator, SPeaker, Artist

I’m Kate Fassbender

I am an educator, artist, storyteller, and former family care partner. I closely accompanying fellow senior living professionals, families, and artists to improve the narrative of dementia, provide quality care, and help equip dementia and elder care professionals with the “Art Supplies” they need to magnify the dignity, purpose, each human holds.

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A Moment of Reflection

If we are creating programming out of fear and keep our attention on the quantity of programs we offer, we become less impactful then when we focus on the person before us and the quality of the program.

Programming Development

“A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be.”

Abraham H. Maslow

We continue to become the person God uniquely created us to be, even with dementia. Our programming should reflect this in small moments of connection and in larger group programming.

Faith and Dementia

First we cultivate joy in something, then we explore it, then we apply discipline, then we master it. We must work to cultivate a joy in Life Enrichment if we are to be excellent in providing care.

On Life Enrichment and Living

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