For libraries that offer Dementia and Alzheimer's related servcies. ________________________________ Sent: Monday, March 6, 2017 2:46 PM Subject: ASCLA’s Alzheimer’s and Related Dementias Interest Group (IGARD) requests your help with its survey Good morning! ASCLA’s Alzheimer’s and Related Dementias Interest Group (IGARD) requests your help with its survey to identify libraries directly serving patrons with Alzheimer’s and related dementias. In 2015 IGARD conducted its first National Survey of Current Practices (Excel spreadsheet<http://www.ala.org/ascla/sites/ala.org.ascla/files/content/asclaourassoc/asclainterest/LibraryServicestoPersonswithDementia.xlsx>). Since that time, many more libraries across the country have begun offering programs and services directly to persons living with dementia in their communities. IGARD would like to update its previous survey in order to get an up-to-date picture of what libraries are doing in this important area of service. If you are one of these innovative libraries, please self-identify by completing this brief survey - https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/2017-library-dementia-survey. If you responded to the earlier survey, we would appreciate an updated response. Results of this updated survey will be accumulated and posted on the IGARD Web page<http://www.ala.org/ascla/interestgroups/igard> before the Annual Conference in June. If your library has not yet begun offering services to this growing segment of your community or are at the beginning stages, please note that IGARD is also hosting a Preconference before the Annual Conference entitled “Becoming a Dementia Friendly Library: Serving People Living with Dementia in Your Community”. We are bringing in experts from the field of dementia care to provide background information and will be presenting several case studies of successful programs for this too often forgotten population. The preconference has been listed in the Conference Scheduler<https://www.eventscribe.com/2017/ALA-Annual/fsPopup.asp?Mode=presInfo&PresentationID=257828>. Thank you in advance for your assistance with the survey and for your good work improving the quality of life for those living with dementia! Mary Beth Riedner Chair, IGARD Thanks. Don Don Wood Program Officer Chapter Relations Office<http://www.ala.org/ala/aboutala/offices/cro/index.cfm> American Library Association 50 East Huron Street Chicago, IL 60611 dwood@ala.org<mailto:dwood@ala.org> 1-800-545-2433, ext. 2429; 312-280-2429 312-280-4392 (fax) The ALA and Chapters Partnership<http://www.ala.org/offices/cro/getinvolved/partnership> “Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.”—Albert Schweitzer “One child, one teacher, one book, and one pen, can change the world.”—Malala Yousafzai “How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”—Anne Frank [cid:image001.jpg@01D29680.1643D450]<http://www.ala.org/offices/cro/getinvolved/partnership> [Libraries-Transform-Logo-Final-ALA-Colors - resized for signature]<http://www.ala.org/transforminglibraries/libraries-transform-campaign>
