Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health views caregiver services as an integral part of its mission. Complementing excellent medical care, the focus on caregivers affirms that neurocognitive diseases impact not just the patient but everyone involved in offering care and support. The goal is to provide supportive services and programs to caregivers and family members, maximizing their knowledge, skills and capacity to provide care.

Care extends beyond caregivers to the community. In addition to art programming covered in the September issue of Noteworthy, the Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health announces a dance session that runs throughout October. Dancing Through Time is a social and ballroom dance class specially created to accommodate caregivers together with their loved ones. The course offers interesting historical information about ballroom dancing, followed by the opportunity to experience dance styles, movement and music.  Participants will learn techniques to increase coordination, balance, flexibility and rhythm. Many of these techniques can be performed sitting in a chair, and the course has been designed to accommodate individuals of all physical abilities. In addition to an enjoyable experience, anticipated benefits include increased range of motion, stamina and sense of well being.

Dates:                        Thursdays, October 7, 14, 21 & 28, 11am – 12pm

Location:                    Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health
                                 888 W. Bonneville Avenue, Las Vegas 89106

Taught by:                  Dr. Carole Rae, Founder and Professor Emeritus of the Dance
                                 Department, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

To Sign-Up:                Contact Susan Hirsch at 483-6023 or hirschs2@ccf.org

Classes are free of charge

Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health community programming is updated online on an ongoing basis at: http://www.keepmemoryalive.org/Caregivers/Pages/CaregiverEvents.aspx

Photo: Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health exterior by Iwan Baan