You will be able to validate your attendance (Check-In to sessions) using your personal schedule.
Kathleen (Katie) Garvey, OTRL, CAPS
About me
Having practiced in traditional healthcare environments, Katie believes that healthand well-being is promoted and maintained best while engaging daily in belovedroutines and interests in a chosen supportive environment. She helped to establish the Ease the Day (ETD) Respite Care Program at Chelsea Senior Center from 2023to 2025. Her prior work with Positive Approach to Care ™ (PAC) in a CCRC and reopening a shuttered adult day health center helped the ETD program to flourish and grow. She was the recipient of the 2024 EMU Outstanding Alumni Award and a 2025 Michigan Occupational Therapy Association Award of Excellence. She is a proud member of AOTA and Mi-OTA since 2009. She serves on the Michigan Dementia Coalition, volunteers with the National Council of Dementia Minds as a facilitator, serves on the Dementia Friendly Chelsea Task Force, and is a community resource for establishing a network of memory cafes in southeast Michigan. She is the owner of Sustain-Hability, LLC, a community based OT consulting business. She helps older adults integrate and flourish in place with optimal autonomy as well as trains and educates professional, family and volunteer care partners on how best to support people to live well with dementia and other chronic health conditions.