This month, the community can participate in several virtual support-group sessions focused on spiritual support for persons with dementia and family caregivers. <\/p>\n
Two representatives of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, Pastor Colin Garraway and Elena Taneva-Cholakova, FNP-BC, will offer virtual presentations on \u201cSpiritual Support through the Seventh-day Adventist Church\u201d on Aug. 10 and 12. Garraway is the chaplain and Taneva-Cholakova is a board-certified family nurse practitioner at the Guam SDA Clinic.<\/p>\n
Rev. Francis Hezel, SJ, a parochial vicar at Santa Barbara Catholic Church, will offer virtual presentations on \u201cSpiritual Support through the Catholic Church\u201d on Aug. 17 and 20.<\/p>\n
Rev. Irene Egmalis Maliaman, the vicar at St. John Episcopal Church, will offer virtual presentations on \u201cSpiritual Support through the Episcopal Church\u201d on Aug. 24 and 27.<\/p>\n
The presentations\u00a0are\u00a0part of the ongoing online support groups for\u00a0family caregivers of persons with dementia\u00a0being conducted by the Guam\/Micronesia Geriatrics Workforce Enhancement Program of the\u00a0University of Guam School of Health.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u2022 \u201cSpiritual Support through the Seventh-day Adventist Church\u201d with Pastor Colin Garraway and Elena Taneva-Cholakova, FNP-BC<\/p>\n
6pm\u20138pm, Wednesday,\u00a0Aug. 10 \u00a0<\/p>\n
10am\u201312 noon,\u00a0Friday,\u00a0Aug. 12 \u00a0<\/p>\n
\u2022\u201cSpiritual Support through the Catholic Church\u201d with Rev. Francis X. Hezel, SJ<\/p>\n
6pm\u20138pm, Wednesday,\u00a0Aug. 17 \u00a0<\/p>\n
10am \u2013 12 noon,\u00a0Saturday,\u00a0Aug. 20 \u00a0<\/p>\n
\u2022\u201cSpiritual Support through the Episcopal Church\u201d with Rev. Irene Egmalis Maliaman<\/p>\n
6pm\u20138pm, Wednesday,\u00a0Aug. 24 \u00a0<\/p>\n
10am\u201312 noon,\u00a0Saturday,\u00a0Aug. 27 \u00a0<\/p>\n
Participants can attend the Wednesday or Saturday sessions using the following Zoom links:\u00a0<\/p>\n
Wednesday sessions:\u00a0https:\/\/zoom.us\/j\/92072878067<\/p>\n
Saturday sessions:\u00a0https:\/\/zoom.us\/j\/91243370958\u00a0<\/p>\n
Ongoing dementia support groups\u00a0<\/strong> For more information, contact Iain\u00a0Twaddle\u00a0or Nikolas Gutierrez at (671) 735-2883 or\u00a0gwep.tgss@triton.uog.edu\u00a0or Rhoda Orallo at (671) 735-3277 or\u00a0r.orallo@hspguam.com. (PR)<\/strong> This month, the community can participate in several virtual support-group sessions focused on spiritual support…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":373862,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-373861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=373861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373861\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/373862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThe GWEP dementia support group sessions are held remotely on Zoom every Wednesday evening and Saturday morning year-round. The sessions are free of charge to partners, family members, and other caregivers of persons with dementia who have ties to Guam and the Micronesian region.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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