Dementia Letters Project

Let’s Live Fully Alive with Dementia.

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Helping those living with dementia live flourishing lives on the dementia journey.

The Dementia Letters Project exists to help you translate brain scans into connection, burnout into creativity, and doom and gloom into joy. This is done through speaking events, workshops in Creative Engagement, and supporting Life Enrichment Teams.

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.

Professional Training
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

Highlighted Programs

Dementia Letters Project

The Life Enrichment program that started it all. Offered in community or one-on-one with families to write a letter to dementia.

Write a Letter

Connect and Create Institute

Creative Engagement training for Administrators, Social Services, and other Management Level Roles in Long-Term Care.

Join the Institute

The Secret Garden Project

Guided by the story of Mary Lenox to explore how to accompany our loved ones with dementia from an intergenerational lens.

Let’s PLay

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
Connect and Create
Kate Fassbender

Educator, SPeaker, Artist

Meet Kate Fassbender

I am an educator, artist, storyteller, and former family care partner. I closely accompanying fellow senior living professionals, families, and artists to help 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.

Let’s Connect

I am a Dementia Educator with a Forte in Creative Engagement.

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