Gayon Buchanan
Audiences leave inspired, informed, and equipped with real-world strategies they can apply immediately in dementia care, caregiver support, and compassionate leadership.
Gayon Buchanan, LPN, CDP, CADDCT, CDSGF is a dynamic dementia care leader, author, educator, and speaker who empowers caregivers, memory care teams, and healthcare audiences navigate dementia with greater confidence, clarity, and compassion. With a career that began as a CNA while attending nursing school, Gayon built her foundation in hands-on care before rising into leadership across skilled nursing, secured memory care, and assisted living.
Today, she serves as Program Director of an all-memory-care assisted living community and is the founder of Bella Cares LLC, where she provides dementia education, caregiver support, and practical training that helps families and professionals respond more effectively to behaviors, communication challenges, and caregiver stress.
A Certified Dementia Practitioner, Alzheimer’s Association advocate, and author of Grace for the Caregiver’s Heart and Beyond the Diagnosis, Gayon is known for delivering presentations that are heartfelt, practical, and immediately usable, equipping audiences with real-world strategies they can apply right away.
Gayon Buchanan, LPN, CDP, CADDCT, CDSGF is a dynamic dementia care leader, author, educator, and speaker who empowers caregivers, memory care teams, and healthcare audiences navigate dementia with greater confidence, clarity, and compassion. With a career that began as a CNA while attending nursing school, Gayon built her foundation in hands-on care before rising into leadership across skilled nursing, secured memory care, and assisted living.
Today, she serves as Program Director of an all-memory-care assisted living community and is the founder of Bella Cares LLC, where she provides dementia education, caregiver support, and practical training that helps families and professionals respond more effectively to behaviors, communication challenges, and caregiver stress.
A Certified Dementia Practitioner, Alzheimer’s Association advocate, and author of Grace for the Caregiver’s Heart and Beyond the Diagnosis, Gayon is known for delivering presentations that are heartfelt, practical, and immediately usable, equipping audiences with real-world strategies they can apply right away.
From Chaos to Clarity: Transforming Dementia Care Through Communication, Compassion, and Practical Strategy
Format: 60-minute keynote or breakout session
This program is perfect for:
- Family caregivers, healthcare staff, senior living teams, community groups, caregiver conferences
The audience will leave with:
- How to respond to behaviors without escalating them
- What sundowning, resistance, and agitation may really be communicating
- Better ways to...
Caring for the Caregiver: How to Support the Person Holding Everything Together
Format:45–60 minute keynote or breakout session
This program is perfect for:
- Family caregivers, women’s conferences, faith communities, support groups, caregiver advocacy events
The audience will leave with:
- Why caregiver burnout happens and what to do before it gets worse
- How to manage guilt, exhaustion, and emotional overload
- Ways to ask for help...
Leading Memory Care Well: Building Teams, Culture, and Confidence in Dementia Care
Format: 60 minute keynote, workshop, breakout
This program is perfect for:
- Senior living leaders, directors, nurses, managers, healthcare organizations, leadership conferences
The audience will leave with:
- What strong dementia care leadership looks like in practice
- How training and culture shape resident outcomes
- Better ways to support staff...
Beyond the Diagnosis: What Families Need to Know Early in the Dementia Journey
Format: 60 minute keynote, workshop, breakout
This program is perfect for:
- Family caregivers, women’s conferences, faith communities, support groups, caregiver advocacy events
The audience will leave with:
- What to do after a diagnosis
- Early warning signs families often overlook
- How to prepare emotionally and practically
- How to reduce...
The Family Dynamic in Dementia Care: Navigating Conflict, Guilt, and Decision-Making
Format: 60 minutes keynote, workshop, breakout
This program is perfect for:
- Family caregivers, women’s conferences, faith communities, support groups, caregiver advocacy events
The audience will leave with:
- Why family conflict intensifies during caregiving
- How to communicate during high-stress decisions
- Ways to reduce blame and improve...
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