Many Faces of Dementia Conference

Mission

Educate professionals in a health care field to provide excellence of care for individuals diagnosed with dementia and their caregivers.

Our Vision

“Let’s Make Dementia a Memory”

How it all began

The Many Faces of Dementia Conference grew out of the USC Alzheimers Disease Consortium, created in 1999 to bring together clinicians and researchers across the two campuses of USC (University Park and Health Sciences) who were working in the area of dementia care and research. The original members of the Consortium were the USC-Rancho California Alzheimers Disease Center (CADC), the USC-California Alzheimers Disease Center (CADC), the USC Alzheimers Disease Research Center (ADRC), and the USC Caregiver Resources Center (CRC) along with individuals from a number of schools and departments. The Consortium recognized that care for individuals with Alzheimers disease or other dementias involves a team of health care and social service providers and decided to establish a one day conference that would bring together professionals working with patients and families that would highlight advances in science and practice and create opportunities for networking.

Educational Credits

We offer Educational Credits, CME and CE to professionals that attend the full day conference.

Past Conferences

Many Faces of Dementia Conference 2024: The Changing Dementia Landscape focused on the changes taking place in prevention, early recognition and new and emerging treatments. Presentations by clinicians and researchers with expertise and extensive experience in dementia will be complemented by first person experiences of individuals and their care partners.

Many Faces of Dementia Conference 2022: Improving Early Detection focused on the growing attention and need for early detection. Sessions will focus on why detection is important, risk factors for cognitive decline and screening and tools that can be used to aid in early detection and diagnosis. Individual presentations will be complemented by panels that give voice to the experience of people living with dementia, their family members, and those in the community.

Many Faces of Dementia Conference 2018: It’s Not All Alzheimer’s focused on non-Alzheimer’s dementias that included speakers discussing the presentations and course and treatment approaches for the major dementias: fronto-temporal dementia, Lewy body dementia, vascular dementia, and early onset familial Alzheimer’s disease. In addition, speakers also presented on the advances in diagnostic imaging in the differential diagnosis of dementia; a facilitated panel presentation of individuals with dementia and their care partners; and a presentation regarding community-based resources and support for families.