Webinars for the Dementia Care Workforce
A series of videos hosted by Georgia Memory Net from guest speakers on issues relating to dementia, Georgia Memory Net Talks is a quarterly webinar series for Community Service Educators (CSEs), community partners, and professionals who work with individuals affected by memory loss and their caregivers. Continuing education credits are available for social workers and licensed psychotherapists in the state of Georgia.
Next Webinar:
Title: Coaching Caregivers Through Challenging Behaviors in Dementia
Presented by:
Dr. Kalisha Bonds Johnson
PhD, RN, PMHNP-BC
Date: Tuesday, August 18, 2026
Time: 1:00 – 2:00 pm Eastern time
Join us as Dr. Kalisha Bonds Johnson presents on how to navigate challenging behaviors in people living with dementia. This session will also focus on how to coach care partners to approach challenging behaviors in their loved one living with dementia. Approved for 1 CORE hour of continuing education for Georgia Licensed Professional Counselors and Georgia Licensed Clinical Social Workers. Free to attend. Registration is required.
Dr. Bonds Johnson is a nurse scientist, clinician, and advocate for African American persons living with dementia and their families. Her leadership, research, clinical expertise, and teaching are paving the way for national change.
Dr. Bonds Johnson currently serves as an assistant professor at Emory University’s Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing, a psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner at Emory University’s Integrated Memory Care, and as the principal investigator of the D.E.C.I.D.E. Research Lab. The D.E.C.I.D.E. Research Lab focuses on creating culturally responsive programs to improve the quality of life of African American persons living with dementia and their family care partners as well as improving the communication between these families and their primary care providers.
Want to watch recordings of past sessions? Click the button below to view previous webinars.
Georgia Memory Net is sponsored by the Georgia Department of Human Services and developed and managed by the Cognitive Neurology program at Emory University’s Goizueta Brain Health Institute.
