The Tennessee Department of Disability and Aging provides free programs for congregations on Brain Health Training (PDF), Dementia Education Training, and Dementia Gatekeeper Training (PDF):
Brain Health Training:
- Aging and Health
- What is Brain Health?
- Protecting Brain Health
- Brain Health Risks
- Medicine, Age, and Your Brain
- Where to Start
Dementia Education Training:
- Types of dementia
- Stages and Signs for dementia
- Risk Factors
- Treatment and Management
- Communication
- Caregivers
Dementia Gatekeeper Training:
- Review the basics of dementia
- What is Dementia?
- Tips for communicating with someone living with memory loss
- Introduce the Dementia Gatekeeper Program
- What is a Gatekeeper
- Dementia Navigators and their role with gatekeepers
- Referral procedures
- Additional support resources for TN residents currently living with dementia
If you would like to provide any of these free programs and training opportunities in your senior or older adult ministry programs, please contact Jackie Moment at or by calling (615)-854-9610.
Jackie Moment, MS, DCCS, DCCS-CI
Dementia Program Manager
Division of Aging
Davy Crockett Tower, 2nd Floor
500 James Robertson Parkway
Nashville, TN 37243
p. 615-854-9610