Meet our BSO Staff
Lisa Thiffeault
Lisa Thiffeault is a Transitional Support Worker for the Alzheimer Society Cochrane-Temiskaming, who is serving the North Cochrane Area. She started her career in 2012 as a Personal Support Worker and obtained her diploma from Collège Boréal in 2013. Over the past ten years, Lisa has gained extensive hands-on experience with Alzheimer’s’ disease while working in Long Term Care Homes. Lisa joined the Alzheimer Society in the role of an Adult Day Program worker and has since taken on the position of Transitional Support Worker. In her current role, Lisa ensures that each client's needs, preferences, comforts and personal history are documented in detail. This documentation makes the transition to a new living space as stress-free as possible. She shares all the essential information with the care team to ensure that the client does not feel overwhelmed during their initial day of transition. As a result, this leads to improved patient outcomes. Lisa is well known for her unwavering passion, compassion, and empathy towards her clients as she ensures they have a voice.
Julie Thibodeau
Julie’s role within the Alzheimer Society & Behavior Supports Ontario is to offer individualized family/caregiver support. She works one on one with the caregiver or family of the person who is exhibiting responsive or expressive behaviors and that have a diagnosis of Alzheimer's or dementia related disease. She also provides education related to dementia and responsive behaviors and assistance with tips, tricks, and strategies to help the caregiver support the older adults with responsive behaviors. She provides them with coping skills and evaluates their needs and will provide the necessary resources or make the appropriate referral to a service that might be needed. The goal is to reduce caregiver stress and to help the person living with dementia to be able to live at home in a safe secure environment as long as possible. No two people are alike, and no two dementias are alike.
Shannon Lamoureaux
Shannon comes to the Alzheimer Society from Southern Ontario but born and raised in Englehart. She brings an extensive background of 22yrs working with seniors in a variety of settings from Community, Retirement and Long-Term Care as a Therapeutic Recreation Specialist. Shannon enjoys being part of her community; with 5 years with Volunteer Fire Dept, Saint John's Therapy Dogs, Danes in Distress, Niagara Dog Rescue and recently Iroquois Falls Storm Billet Mom. Shannon’s role with the Alzheimer Society & Behaviour Support Ontario is to support individuals expressing responsive behaviours associated with dementia and/or other neurological conditions to transition to a different living environment. She is an advocate for person & family-centred care and building effective communication with the inter-professional team.