Ask the Expert: Layering the Support System - Considering and Hiring Professional In-Home Care

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About the Webinar:
Individuals with progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP), corticobasal degeneration (CBD) or numerous system atrophy (MSA) need increasing support with time to aid with day-to-day jobs and security. While caregiving can be gratifying, households and partners benefit from extra caregiving assistance as well as time to step away from the function. Understanding how proactive to be around carrying out brand-new methods for handling care and how to go about including layers to the assistance system are frequently difficult and frustrating difficulties. In this webinar, Katrina Rudd, LICSW, C-ASWCM, a medical social employee at the CurePSP Center of Care at Massachusetts General Hospital, will stroll us through resources and factors to consider for employing outdoors care services. She will be signed up with by Al Nixon, who will share his first-hand experiences and suggestions around expert at home look after his partner with PSP.
This webinar will be moderated by Jessica Shurer, MSW, LCSW, CurePSP’s Director of Clinical Affairs and Advocacy. There will be time at the end for the speakers to respond to concerns from audiences. Send your concerns for Katrina and Al by means of registration or e-mail to events@curepsp.org.
This webinar will be readily available on the CurePSP YouTube channel after the occasion. We will email registrants with the link when it’s all set. Registration is totally free of charge!

About the Speakers:
Al Nixon
Al Nixon is a veteran and devoted volunteer with CurePSP, serving on the Community Advisory and Advocacy Committee, as a peer fan, and as co-facilitator of the virtual Bereavement Support Group and regional Connecticut-based Support Group. He invested 38 years in the ball and roller-bearing service and was the President of the Torrington Company, Vice President of Ingersoll Rand Company, and Chairman of the American Bearing Manufacturers Association. His spouse, Eileen, was detected with PSP in 2013 and died in 2016. His experience has her care partner has actually made him an enthusiastic supporter for both increasing awareness of PSP, CBD and MSA and for assisting households more quickly browse the health care and long-lasting care systems through their illness journey.

Katrina Rudd, LICSW, C-ASWCM
Katrina finished her bachelor’s degree at the University of Rochester in 2007 with majors in Brain and Cognitive Sciences and Psychology. She made her Master of Social Work degree in 2013 from Washington University in St. Louis with a concentration in health social work practice. Throughout graduate school, Katrina interned in the Outpatient Neurology Clinic at the Rehabilitation Institute of St. Louis, at the St. Louis Cancer and Breast Institute, and with the Bethesda Hospice Care program. Following conclusion of her MSW, Katrina worked for a number of years as a Health Services Care Manager and Mentor Trainer at Mystic Valley Elder Services in Malden, MA. She was later on provided a function at the National Multiple Sclerosis Society in which she managed the company’s case management services throughout the New England area for 6 years. Last year, Katrina signed up with Massachusetts General Hospital as the Clinical Social Worker in the Parkinson’s and Movement Disorders. In this function, she supports people, care partners, and households affected by PSP, MSA, CBD, Parkinson’s Disease, Huntington’s Disease, and other associated motion conditions.
She is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW) in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and a Certified Advanced Social Work Case Manager (C-ASWCM) who wants supporting people and households affected by progressive neurological conditions.

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