Kristen
Felten,
MSW
Public Health Dementia Specialist
Wisconsin Department of Health Services
Kristen Felten began working in the field of dementia care in 1996 as a direct care worker in assisted living, first as direct care staff then as a facility director, spending 10 years providing direct care. In 2006 she began working at the Wisconsin Department of Health Services, and in October of 2010 Kristen shifted from aging and disability resource center development to the Office on Aging, and began her focus on dementia care systems and supports in the community. In her role, Kristen created the Dementia Care Specialist program, is directing a BOLD public health award from the CDC, and provides leadership for the Wisconsin state plan for dementia.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
The Healthy Aging Initiative was born through the initial funding through the CDC-funded Building Our Largest Dementia (BOLD) Infrastructure for Alzheimer’s Disease Project in collaboration with the Wisconsin Department of Health. This funding created, and now supports the Interprofessional Learning Community Caregiving Badge (IPL Badge). The IPL Badge led by UW CIPE at UW–Madison, was initially funded as a 3-year telehealth community placement project, added the simulation learning, Advanced Dementia Interprofessional Clinical Simulation (ADICS), in Fall 2022 and recently this project was…