Rachel Coady is a Co-Active Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC) who works with clients navigating significant life transitions. For the last 5 years, she has worked with clients facing changes in careers, family life, personal well-being, and personal growth. Through her coaching, clients reconnect with themselves, their needs, and the world around them. They focus on building the lives they want in spite of life’s challenges. Rachel’s interest in Dementia and caregiving started with her own experience as a caregiver in 2019. She found coaching tools helpful in navigating the caretaking experience, including self-management, self-care, boundary setting, reframing, and honoring personal values. 

She is passionate about creating a world with more consideration, support, and dignity for caretakers and loved ones experiencing dementia. 

Shoshawna Rainwater, LCSW, She/Her/Hers, is a dementia consultant in private practice based in Portland, Oregon. She has worked as a social worker for over twenty years and has expertise in the areas of dementia, older adulthood specific issues and palliative care. 

Shoshawna has spent the last two decades studying dementia and its effects on those involved– disease trajectory, stages, unique/difficult facets of the disease, and the impact on caregivers. 

Shoshawna has served on the OHSU Geriatric ECHO faculty and SPADO (State Plan for Alzheimer’s & other Dementias in Oregon). She is a frequent presenter on best practices in dementia care, including how to care for people living with dementia and to enhance understanding of the dementia experience of both patients and caregivers.

Shoshawna lives in Portland, Oregon with her spouse Craig and daughter Mia.