Palm
Beach,
Fl —
Lydian
Bank &
Trust
hosted
nearly
50
guests
at their
Palm
Beach
headquarters
to honor
this
year’s
host
committee
members
of Johns
Hopkins
Medicine’s
annual
A
Woman’s
Journey.
Constantine
Lyketsos,
M.D.,
M.H.S.,
the
Elizabeth
Plank
Althouse
Professor
of
Psychiatry
and
Behavioral
Sciences,
vice
chair of
psychiatry
for
Johns
Hopkins
Medicine
and
director
of the
Johns
Hopkins
Memory
and
Alzheimer’s
Treatment
Center
provided
guests
with a
taste of
the
upcoming
health
conference
with his
presentation,
“Memory
Loss
with
aging:
what can
you do?”
The 2011
A
Woman’s
Journey
will
take
place
January
20 at
the Palm
Beach
County
Convention
Center
in West
Palm
Beach.
Lydian
has been
a
corporate
sponsor
of A
Woman’s
Journey
since it
came to
Florida
four
years
ago.
The
Johns
Hopkins
Hospital,
the
nation’s
top-ranked
hospital,
selected
Palm
Beach as
the
first
community
outside
of
Baltimore
to host
this
special
conference.
Attendees
will
enjoy a
Johns
Hopkins
heart-healthy
breakfast,
two
seminars
of their
choosing,
lunch
with
members
of the
Hopkins
faculty
and two
keynote
addresses.
Dr.
Lyketsos
and
other
Hopkins
doctors
will
present
10
hour-long
seminars
covering
important
health
issues
facing
women.
“Women,
as the
gatekeepers
for
family
health,
have
long
been
credited
with
keeping
up on
the
latest
breakthroughs
on the
medical
frontier,”
stated
James B.
Meany,
Lydian
Bank &
Trust’s
President
and
Chairman
of the
Johns
Hopkins
Regional
Advisory
Board of
Governors
for Palm
Beach.
“This
conference
provides
a
plethora
of
information
on
myriad
subjects
pertaining
to
everyone
in the
family —
from
pediatrics
to
geriatrics.”
Among
the
guests
joining
Mr.
Meany
and Dr.
Lyketsos
for the
event
were
Susan
Keenan,
Betsy
Meany,
Norma
Tiefel,
Susan
Telesco,
Lee
Callahan,
Trisha
Keitel,
Dorothy
and
Sydney
Kohl,
Mark and
Mary
Freitas,
Paulette
and
Richard
Koch,
Pat and
Richard
Johnson,
Cathy
and Jack
Flagg
III,
Lori
Gendelman,
Barbara
Nielsen,
Rosemary
and
Edward
Bronstien.
According
to Dr.
Lyketsos,
Alzheimer's
disease
is
expected
to reach
epic
proportions
as
nearly
15
million
U.S.
baby
boomers
age over
the next
40
years—115
million
worldwide.
Minor
changes
in
memory
accompany
normal
aging
and many
worry
about
distinguishing
between
“senior
moments”
and the
onset of
serious
dementias
such as
Alzheimer’s
disease.
Dr.
Lyketsos
offered
guests
tips on
how to
define
their
own
“senior
moments”
and how
to
preserve
their
memories,
as well
as the
biological
and
anatomical
elements
involved
in minor
memory
loss and
Alzheimer’s.
Johns
Hopkins
Medicine’s
A
Woman’s
Journey
is a
one-day
annual
event
that
provides
the
latest
findings
on
women’s
health
and
information
on
recent
advances
in
preventing,
detecting
and
treating
disease
in
women. The
conference
was the
creation
of two
women
from
Baltimore,
Md.,
Harriet
Legum
and
Mollye
Block,
who
together
realized
the need
to
provide
women
with a
forum to
gain
knowledge
about
their
health
concerns.
Last
year’s
event in
Palm
Beach
attracted
more
than 350
attendees.