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Alexandra Krisztofer, MA, M.S, DTR

Long Island Alzheimer’s Foundation

5 Channel Drive Port Washington, NY 11050 Tel: (516) 767-6856 www.liaf.org

ALEXANDRA KRISZTOFER MA, M.S, DTR IS recognized by Continental Who’s Who among Healthcare  rofessionals. Ms. Krisztofer is a Cognitive Trainer, Dance/Movement Therapist and a Recreation Consultant at the Long Island Alzheimer’s Foundation at Port Washington, New York. 

She works with clients with Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) or other early stage of neurodegenerative diseases in a day program setting. Her professional job includes cognitive assessment, computerized cognitive training (CogniFit program) and a special group cognitive training program, called “Train your Brain”, using the famous Swiss psychologist, Andre Rey’s neuropsychological assessment and training materials among others. These programs are developed to improve a variety of mental functions and/or to slow down the cognitive decline caused by the diseases.

He r o t h e r u ni q u e group program, called “Creative Expression”, which integrates a few Western and Eastern creative therapies and healing arts, such as dance therapy, art therapy, music therapy, relaxation, meditation, guided imagery and tai chi-qi gong. This program is designed to improve the body-mind connection,

self expression, self image, creative and social skills. She also coordinates/ facilitates special events and group recreation programs for clients who suffer from early or moderate stage of Alzheimer’s Disease. She has 20 years professional experience in healthcare field at psychiatry and neurology units of major hospitals, as well as at rehabilitation and long term care facilities in New York City, Long Island and Budapest. Prior to her present job, for 5 years she specialized in stroke rehabilitation as psychologist and movement therapist.

Ms. Krisztofer holds an MA Degree in psychology from the University of Budapest, and an MS in Dance/Movement Therapy from CUNY, Hunter College, NY. Her other professional education’s include a 2 year certificate program in Dance Education in New York City, a 2 year certificate program in Whole Health Education in Boston, and a 2 year postgraduate program in Neuropsychology in Budapest. She had a poster presentation at a Neurorehabilitation Conference in Hungary in 2006, titled as “The effect of the Dance/Movement therapy in the Stroke Rehabilitation”, and published with other professionals in the europsychopharmacology Hungarica in 2004.

Alexandra, in her twenties experimented with a variety of creative arts, and had been a cartoonist, a model, a mime, a musical dancer-singer and a journalist. She still sings in a church choir and takes salsa classes. Her future goals are to participate in research studies in neuroscience, pursue her Ph.D., to write book(s) and to learn Spanish. ICE

About Long Island Alzheimer’s Foundation

LIAF started in 1988 in a typical grassroots fashion by five women including Chairman Emeritus Janet B. Walsh; each had a parent or grandparent with Alzheimer’s disease and had shared the frustration of not knowing where to turn for much-needed help. The mission of the Long Island Alzheimer’s Foundation is to help lighten the burden and improve the quality of life for those suffering with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias, their caregivers and their families. LIAF is an independent nonprofit organization dedicated to meeting the educational, social and emotional needs of individuals with Alzheimer’s disease and their families and caregivers, as well as raising public awareness about the disease and lending expertise to healthcare professionals. The Foundation moved into its own building in Port Washington, NY in 1999.

Writer: Continental Who’s Who^® Member Author: Alexandra Krisztofer