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Montana Gerontology Society 39th Annual Conference

APRIL 12TH & 13TH IN MISSOULA

The Holiday Prevention and Grief Related Services as of services and programs for Montana’s
Inn Downtown, well as the Friendship Line. He devotes his senior population.
Mi ss oula w i ll life to increasing awareness of isolation, An Outstanding Member of the Year and
host the Montana loneliness, and depression in older adults. scholarship recipients will be announced at
Gerontology Dr. Rickard is a clinical psychologist the conference.
Soc i et y’ s 39th at Parkside Mental Health in Wenatchee, Scholarship fundraising for students
Annual Conference Wash., and is the founder and director of pursuing degrees in Gerontology will be
on the weekend of the Suicide Prevention Coalition of North held. To make a financial donation toward
April 12 and 13. It will be a virtual conference. Central Washington State and the CEO of the scholarship fund, send an email to con-
Dr. Patrick Arbore. Ed.D. and Dr. Julie Moment by Moment Suicide Prevention. [email protected] or contact
Rickard, Ph.D., will be the keynote speakers. Visit montanagerontology.org for further the conference planning team.
Dr. Arbore, a nationally recognized expert information and registration. Each new member a person recruits to
in elder suicide prevention and grief ser- Sponsors and Exhibitors will share MGS, will have a chance to have their name
vices, founded the Center for Elderly Suicide information and resources from a myriad drawn, to win their registration fee back. MsN

OVER EASY “You might want to write it down,” it down,” she told her husband, and
Submitted by Julie she said. again he said, “No, I got it. You want a
Fink/Brantley “No, I can remember that you bowl of ice cream with whipped cream
There was want a bowl of ice cream,” he said. and a cherry on top.”
an elderly couple who, in their old She then told her husband she So he went to get the ice cream
age, noticed that they were getting wanted a bowl of ice cream with and spent an unusually long time
a lot more forgetful, so they decided whipped cream. “Write it down,” in the kitchen, over 30 minutes. He
to go to the doctor. The doctor told she told him, and again he said, “No, came out to his wife and handed her a
them that they should start writing no, I can remember: you want a bowl plate of eggs and bacon. The old wife
things down, so they don’t forget. of ice cream with whipped cream.” stared at the plate for a moment, then
They went home, and the old lady Then the old lady said she wanted looked at her husband and asked,
asked her husband to get her a bowl a bowl of ice cream with whipped “Where’s the toast?” MsN
of ice cream. cream and a cherry on top. “Write

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