Montessori Dementia Care & Brain Health Coaching
Struggling with dementia care? Loved one exhibiting “challenging” behaviors such as repetitive questions, rummaging, and wandering? Are they struggling to do daily activities like personal care, paying bills, and eating?
I help families learn how to help their loved one live well with dementia. Resolving challenging behaviors and bringing back more independence and joy.
My name is Rev. Katie Norris, and I have been a dementia care specialist for over 13 years, focusing on trauma informed Montessori Based Dementia Care.
As I was caring for my mother who had Lewy Body Dementia, I started to delve deep into brain health and neurology because my training in dementia care showed me that how we take care of our brain at any age (from kids to adults) changes how we function in the present, but also is the biggest contributing factor to getting dementia later in life. Yes, even bigger than genetics.
I look forward to helping you care for your loved one with dementia and/or live a brain health lifestyle to decrease your risk of cognitive decline.
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Your Coach
Katie Norris
Coach Katie, M.Div. has been working in dementia care and brain health for twelve years after she and her family moved in with her parents to care for her mother who had Lewy Body Dementia.
Not only was Katie a care partner for her mother, but she was also dealing with decades of trying to treat her multiple mental illnesses with all the doctors, therapists, and medications, but only getting worse and worse.
Learning about dementia care led Katie to discover how neuroinflammation from diet and lifestyle and nervous system dysregulation change cognitive and emotional functioning. She started implementing brain healthy lifestyle changes for herself and finally got better.
The dementia care practices that allow people to function well worked not only to allow her mother to live with joy and dignity, but also for the whole family to function better.
Katie started teaching dementia care to family care partners and over time expanded her coaching to also include brain healthy living to reduce the risk of cognitive decline.
Rev. Katie Norris is a Primal Health Coach, Amen Clinics Brain Health Coach, The Ready State Mobility Coach, Z-Health Practitioner, and she became the first AMI Montessori in Dementia Care Practitioner in the world.
She is the primary author of Creative Connections in Dementia Care®: Engaging Activities to Enhance Communication and is featured in the book “The Joy of Movement” by Dr. Kelly McGonigal.
Rev. Katie is also the co-founder of the Carolyn L. Farrell Foundation for Brain Health and is a Unitarian Universalist Community Minster.
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