Caregivers Conference

Reverend Denise Frank

Reverend Denise Frank is Minister of Hope at West Lafayette First United Methodist Church. She is a graduate of Christian Theological Seminary in Indianapolis, and has continued her education with certifi cation in the area of grief and bereavement. As a grief facilitator, the bereavement groups that she leads combine the elements of support and educational while offering healing and hope for the future. She also offers individual counseling dealing with issues of grief and life transitions.

Jan Woltz

Jan has been a dementia Support Group facilitator for 10 years and is continuously trained by the Greater Indiana Alzheimer's Association. She was a member of the original committee to form the West Central Indiana Resource District for the Alzheimer's Association in this area. In addition, she has been a caregiver to her father who had Alzheimer's and to a mother-inlaw who also had the disease. She now works for Area IV Agency on Aging and Community Action Programs as an Information and Referral Specialist and as a Family Caregiver Assistance Program assistant.

Ed Stachowicz

Ed Stachowicz is the managing attorney of the Lafayette offi ce of Indiana Legal Services, Inc. He is responsible for the Lafayette offi ce Senior Law Project, concentrating on legal problems of the elderly in the following areas: Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, other public benefi t programs, nursing home issues, advance directives, housing and consumer law. Ed has served as presenter/panelist in numerous workshops on legal problems of the elderly.

Carol Ott, PharmD, BCPP

Carol Ott is a board-certifi ed psychiatric pharmacist who serves as an Assistant Professor of Pharmacy Practice for the Purdue University School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences.

Joanne Gutek

Joanne Gutek is a speech-language pathologist who has worked in the area of adult neurogenic communication disorders for 15 years. She completed her graduate training at the University of Alberta in Edmonton and has worked in hospital and rehabilitation settings in Canada and the United States including the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. In 2002, she became a clinical supervisor at Purdue University's Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences. In 2008, Joanne co-founded the Brainbuilders Men's Group to provide social-based language and cognitive treatment to men dealing with early stage Alzheimer's disease.