Maude’s Awards
SEEKING INNOVATIONS IN ALZHEIMER’S CARE
Applications for the 2nd Annual Maude’s Awards are NOW available! Visit www.MaudesAwards.org. Maude’s Awards was implemented in 2020 to gather innovative practices of care for persons living with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias and their care partners, and to share these practices with the wider dementia care community.
Maude’s Awards was created by Richard Ferry in honor of his beloved wife of 64 years. In 2013, Maude was diagnosed with dementia. Now as a loving care partner and tireless advocate, Richard continues their journey together by discovering and sharing innovations that speak to the challenges and needs of persons living with dementia and their care partners.
Maude’s Awards makes eight annual awards – three $25,000 awards to organizations and five $5,000 awards to individuals – for innovations excelling in one of four categories of care found here: The Awards – Maude's Awards.
Since announcing our first annual award recipients in October 2020, we have been keeping up with our Award winners including this update from Award recipient Trang Tu who had developed a culturally-based care approach for her mother that blends Western dementia care practices with Vietnamese culture:
“For our home use, I have created informal materials and training for my mother’s paid caregivers and family members. Topics include: Communicating in a Vietnamese Context, Managing Psychoses, Cultural Norms in Personal Care, Cultural Cueing, Supporting Independence, Brain Science, Culturally-based Activities.
In the community, I have shared my perspectives and practices at the Seattle College Nursing Program, Elder Friendly Futures Conference, a Lewy Body Dementia Panel, and to the Washington State Dementia Action Collaborative.
I had previously shared my efforts to develop culturally appropriate care practices in filmmaker Peter Trinh’s 2018 film “GAPS”, which has been shown across the country and been used for education including in the Alzheimer Association’s Public Health Training Curriculum and in “Dimensions” from the UW Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center. For additional information about the culturally-specific practices I have developed, contact me at trang@trangtuconsulting.com.”