Free Alzheimer
Caregivin
Seminar

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If you have questions about dementia and
Alzheimer's disease, now's your chance
to ask the expert.

Guest Speaker Amy Wittle, MS
Wednesday, June 23, 1999

She has a Masters of Science degree from Eastern Michigan
University in Clinical Psychology .with a specialization in
gerontology and neuropsychology. She has ten years of experience
working with individuals with dementia and Alzheimer's disease. She
has lectured for the Dementia Certificate Program at Eastern
Michigan University and is a volunteer at the Southeastern Chapter
of the Alzheimer's Association. She is currently the Director of
Specialty Programs at the Heartland Health Center where she has
created a late-stage dementia program specializing in rehabilitation
and long term care. And now, Amy Wittle would like to share her
expertise on Alzheimer's disease and other related memory disorders
with you.

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ollowing the recent incident
in which a psychotic patient
walked into his psychiatrist's
office. killed two people and
v,rounded four more before turning
the gun on himself, some psychiatrists
are sadly noting that there is little any-
one can do to predict such behavior.
They say little training is available to
show them how to handle dangerous
situations.
"Because we deal with violent and
aggressive patients, we're always aware
of the possibility- of someone losing
self-control," said Dr. Saul Forman
from Southfield, a psychiatrist since
1972. "We do our best to prevent ir,
but psychiatrists are no better than the
layman in predicting."
"The best you can do is identify it
before it happens and involve other

An obituag for Dr. Reuven Bar-Levav
appears on Page 145.

people in the treatment," he said.
"You meet with them and their family,
then maintain a working relationship
with the family so they feel they can
call you 24 hours a day."
On June 11, Joseph Brooks Jr., 28,
of Plymouth burst into the Town
Center Building in Southfield, mur-
dering Dr. Reuven Bar-Levav, 72, of
West Bloomfield and patient Mary
Gregg, 45, of Huntington-Woods.
The gunman also wounded four oth-
ers before killing himself. A former
patient of Bar-Levav, Brooks was diag-
nosed a paranoid-schizophrenic and
had been treated in a mental hospital.
Southfield police are continuing to
investigate why BroOks attacked the
doctor.
All authority figures can be vulnera-
ble, but they often behave as if they
weren't, said Dr. Marvin NVeckstein, a
Southfield psychiatrist who started his
training in 1954.
"We don't want to admit that we

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