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- Healthy Aging Briefings Webinars, sponsored by NCOA and IlluminAge Communication Partners.
- NCOA Webinars.
Healthy Aging Briefing Series Presentations
AGING NETWORK: Building Public Awareness of the Aging Network
Speaker: Denise Klein
Explore how to build awareness of the aging network’s services, programs, benefits and resources and hear about creative models.
CAREGIVING: Caregiver Research--The Latest News
Speaker: Gail Gibson Hunt
Learn about the latest research findings on caregiving's affect on caregivers health, and in the workplace, plus caregiving trends.
CAREGIVING: Caring for the Family Caregiver
Speaker: Susan McFadden,Professor of Psychology, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh.
Learn about the unique needs of family caregivers.
CAREGIVING: Economic Downturn's Impact on Family Caregivers
Speaker: Gail Hunt, President and CEO of The National Alliance for Caregiving
Learn what today's economic realities mean for community-based caregiver support programs.
CAREGIVING: Men as Caregivers
Speaker: Shawn Herz, MSG, LMFT
Learn how to assess need for--and plan--a caregiver retreat especially for men.
CIVIC ENGAGEMENT: Promising Practices
Speaker: Sabrina Reilly
Hear about emerging trends from civic engagement programs that are engaging adults 50+ in service to their communities.
CIVIC ENGAGEMENT: Tapping The Boomer Reservoir
Speaker: Beth Steinhorn.
Learn new strategies to engage a new generation of volunteers.
CREATIVE AGING: Best Practices and Model Program Development in Arts and Aging
Speakers: Gay Hanna, PhD MFA, & Susan Perlstein, MSW, Founder of Elders Share the Arts and NCCA.
Learn about the critical role creativity plays in the positive aging process.
CREATIVE AGING: Current Research Supporting Creativity in Later Life
Speakers: Gay Hanna & Gene Cohen.
Learn about the critical role creativity plays in the positive aging process.
DEPRESSION: Resources for Seniors
Speaker: Alixe McNeill
Explore the myths and realities of common mental disorders, and learn about mental health promotion messages and depression screening tools.
DIABETES: Healthy Changes Program for Living with Diabetes
Speaker: Cindy Klug
Hear an overview of the Healthy Changes educational and support program, which assists older adults in the day-to-day self-management of diabetes.
FALLS PREVENTION: Managing Concerns with the A Matter of Balance Program
Speakers: Peggy Haynes and Elaine McMahon
See a brief overview of the community-based program A Matter of Balance, which reduces falling and improves older adults' activity levels.
FALLS PREVENTION: New Initiatives and Programs
Speaker: Lynn Beattie
A brief overview of the epidemiology of falls, the purpose of the National Action Plan to Prevent Falls, and the progress of the Falls Free coalition.
FALLS PREVENTION: Safe Steps: A Falls Prevention Program for Seniors
Speaker: Angela Mickalide, Ph.D., CHES
Explore three interventions--home modifications, physical activity, and medication management--proven to reduce fall-related deaths and injuries in the home.
FINANCE: Home Equity Solutions: Use Your Home to Stay at Home
Speaker: Barbara R. Stucki, Ph.D.
Discuss reverse mortgages and ways older adults can use their home equity to pay for long-term care--and remain in their homes.
FINANCE: The Financial Meltdown Part II: Helping Your Organization Weather the Storm
Speaker: James Firman, Ed.D, NCOA President & CEO
Learn strategies to help your organization respond to the financial crisis.
FINANCE: The Financial Meltdown: Helping Seniors Understand and Cope
Speaker: Harry R. Moody Ph.D., Director of Academic Affairs for AARP
Learn practical tips to help seniors deal with the current economic crisis.
FUNDING: Practical Strategies for Creating Organizational Abundance
Speaker: James Firman, Ed.D, NCOA President & CEO
Learn how your organization can move from scarcity to abundance regarding resources.
FUNDING: Trends in Health & Aging: Data for Grant Proposals
Speaker: Yelena Gorina
Explore the basics of data sources available through the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Learn how to find trends in health and aging data and use it for local problems.
HEALTH: Chronic Disease Self-Management
Speaker: Bonnie Hafner, BSN, RN
Learn about Partners on the P.A.T.H. (Personal Action Toward Health), an evidence-based prevention project.
HEALTH: Evidence-Based Health Promotion Programming: The Basics
Speaker: Mary Altpeter
See an overview of evidence-based health promotion--the process of planning, implementing, and evaluating programs adapted from tested models or interventions to address health issues at an individual and community level.
HEALTH: Evidence-Based Programs for Older Adults
July 21,09
Speaker: Julie D. Kosteas, MPH
Learn what exactly constitutes an evidence-based health promotion program, and how you can implement one in your own organization.
HEALTH: Helping Older Adults Find Health Info Online
Speaker: Donna Childress
Teach seniors how to find and assess online sources for health information.
HEALTH: Medication Use and Older Adults
Speaker: Kathleen A. Cameron, R.Ph., M.P.H.
Explore the basics of medication use and aging, the special medication needs of older adults, and medicines' impact on seniors.
HEALTH: Memory Fitness Matters
Speaker: Kathryn Kilpatrick
Hear a brief overview of an educational memory fitness program called Memory Fitness Matters.
HEALTH: Nutrition and Seniors: Separating Fact from Fiction
Speaker: Melanie Polk
Gain an appreciation for the challenges posed by unreliable health information, especially on nutrition.
HEALTH: Patchwork of Hope Network: Shingles & Post Herpetic Neuralgia
Speaker: Dr. Christopher Garibo, Director of Pain Medicine and Asst Prof of Anesthesiology at NYU School of Medicine
Learn about shingles and after-shingles pain symptoms and treatment.
HEALTH: Physical Activity Participation: Removing Barriers
Speaker: Kay Van Norman
Identify the powerful, yet often-unseen psychological and social barriers to older adult participation in physical activity.
HEALTH: Prescription for Physical Activity
Speaker: Christine Fordyce
Address strategies for helping older adults see and appreciate the importance of daily physical exercise, education and program strategies, and recent developments.
HEALTH: Putting Home Safety to Work: How to Implement a Home Safety Program in Your Community
Speaker: Angela Mickalide, Ph.D, CHES,Director of Education and Outreach for the Home Safety Council
Learn about the benefits of establishing a home safety program in your community.
HEALTH: Universal Design and Aging in Place
Speaker: Louis Tenenbaum
Learn how 'aging in place' programs help seniors stay in their homes and involved in their communities as they face the various challenges of aging.
HEALTHCARE: Medicare Preventive Health Services
Speaker: Marisa Scala-Foley
Learn about the new preventive services Medicare covers, including a one-time screening for those new to Medicare, cholesterol screening, and new diabetes screening and self-management training benefits.
HEALTHCARE: Savvy Health Care Consumers
Speaker: Janet Ohene-Frempong
Help seniors become better health advocates for themselves.
MEMORY: Memory Fitness 2009
Speaker: Kathyrn Kilpatrick, M.A.
Learn about improving the memory and the cognitive functions of older adults.
ONLINE STRATEGIES: Optimizing Your Website for Older Adults and Caregivers
Speaker: David Dring
Learn how to build senior-friendly websites and ways to use your website in reaching and serving older adults and caregivers.
ONLINE STRATEGIES: Using eNewsletters to Connect with Key Audiences in Your Community
Speaker: Connie Parsons, Director of Marketing, IlluminAge Healthcare Communications.
Learn how to build your email list and manage the content of enewsletters.
PERSPECTIVE: A Conversation with an Elder Statesman - NCOA Board Chair, Msgr. Charles Fahey. Personal Reflections on Service, Advocacy, and Professional Development in the Field of Aging
Speaker: Msgr. Charles Fahey, NCOA Board Chair.
Gain from the wisdom of an elder statesman as he reflects on his years in the aging services field.
SENIOR CENTERS: A Vital Aging Resource
Speaker: Christine Beatty
Explore how senior centers are meeting challenges and preparing for the future by fighting stereotypes about older adults and senior centers.
SENIOR CENTERS: Engagement - A New Vision for your Senior Center
Speaker: Colin Milner, CEO, International Council on Active Aging
Learn new approaches to bringing Baby Boomers to your senior center.
SENIOR CENTERS: Seniors' Thoughts on Senior Centers
Speaker: Sharon Brooks
Hear results from a recent survey on consumer attitudes toward senior centers.
SENIOR CENTERS: Strategies for Attracting Baby Boomers
Speaker: Elizabeth Bernat
Learn how others have met boomers' needs.
SENIOR CENTERS: The Café Plus Concept: An Ageless Place for Older Adults With Retail Appeal
Speaker: Betsie Sassen
Learn about creating unique opportunities for seniors to gather and learn about healthy aging.
WORKFORCE: Project Renewment -- Concerns, Strategies, and Issues of Career Women 55 and Older
Speakers: Helen Dennis and Bernice Bratter, authors of the book, Project Renewment: The First Retirement Model for Career Women.
Learn about the challenges, issues and opportunties facing career women for the next 30 years.
NCOA Presentations
ART & AGING: Honoring the Sacredness of Aging through Art
Speaker: Alicia V. Fahr, PhD, LPC
Learn to enrich seniors' lives with art, music, spirituality, creativity and imagination.
CIVIC ENGAGEMENT: Moving Volunteers from Ordinary to Extraordinary
Speaker: Christine Beatty
Learn how some organizations are changing.
CIVIC ENGAGEMENT: Planning A High Volunteer Program
Speaker: Sung Kwon, Executive Director, North American Division, Adventist Community Services.
Learn practical strategies on managing an effective volunteer program.
CIVIC ENGAGEMENT: Self-Directed Teams and Senior Centers: Models for Civic Engagement
Speaker: Constance Todd, Director of Wisdom Works and Associate Director of NCOA's Civic Engagement Initiatives.
Learn about self-directed teams, how they got started and why they are important.
CIVIC ENGAGEMENT: What is Civic Engagement and What is the Landscape?
Speaker: Thomas Endres, NCOA's Vice President of Civic Engagement.
Learn a broad definition of civic engagement relevant to 55+ population, barriers and opportunities for implementing civic engagement programs as well as the demographic landscape.
CREATIVE AGING: Creating Change for Tomorrow - Today
Speaker: Jean Carroccio, MPA, MSW,Certified Creative Thinking Consultant
Learn the skills you need to raise creativity so you, your staff, board of directors and volunteers may begin or expand the civic engagement initiatives in your organization.
DEPRESSION: Evidence-Based Depression Care Management: Healthy IDEAS
Speakers:Nancy Wilson, Sharon Forester and Pat Gleason-WynnLearn about depression management.
DEPRESSION: Evidence-Based Depression Care Management: Improving Mood-Promoting Access to Collaborative Treatment (IMPACT)
Speakers: Jurgen Unutzer, MD, MPH, MA and Virna Little, PsyD, LCSW-R.
Learn about evidence-based depression care management.
DEPRESSION: Evidence-Based Depression Care Management: Program to Encourage Active, Rewarding Lives for Seniors (PEARLS)
Speakers: Mark Snowden and Pam Piering.
Learn how the PEARLS program can help seniors manage depression.
DEPRESSION: Evidence-Based Mental Health Practices for Older Adults: The Latest Data, Strategies and Funding Options
Speakers: Margaret Moore, MPH, Stephen J. Bartels, M.D., M.S., Suzanne Bosstick and Mary Sowers, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Disabled and Elderly Health Programs Group
Identify issues, risks, strategies and potential funding sources for evidence-based programs and practices.
DEPRESSION: Healthy Aging and Depression Webinars: Overcoming Stigma
Speakers: Pat Corrigan, Director of the Chicago Consortium for Stigma Research, Carmen Lee, Founder and Executive Director of Stamp Out Stigma, and Kate McDuffie, Associate Director, Communications for the Geriatric Mental Health Foundation.
Learn about current research activities related to depression.
DEPRESSION: Money Matters: Funding and Sustaining Evidence-based Depression Programming
Speakers:Liz Gitter, MSSW, LISW-S, Chris Imhoff, Shelagh A. Smith, MPH, CHESLearn about funding options for depression programs.
DEPRESSION: RAPP Healthy IDEAS Webinar
Speakers: Nancy L. Wilson, Healthy IDEAS Team Leader, Baylor College of Medicine, Esther Steinberg, Project Coordinator, Healthy IDEAS, Care for Elders, Sheltering Arms Senior Services.
Learn about depression in older adults through an evidence-based program.
FAITH: Cultural and Spiritual Diversity: Improving Our Communication and Understanding
Speakers: Marita Grudzen, MHS and Ronald Y. Nakasone, Ph.D.
Learn to understand a person's many cultural identities and how they influence spirituality and communication.
WORKFORCE: Age Discrimination and the Economic Downturn
Speakers: Bill Milani, Cathy Ventrell-Monsees, Raymond Peeler
Discusses age discrimination from employee and employer persectives.
WORKFORCE: Job Development in a Recession for Mature Workers
Allen Anderson, employment program designer, discusses how to evaluate current job development strategies that get results in difficult economic times.
Hear about new ideas and focuses that help find jobs through job developers in a recession, where to invest time and effort in engaging the employer to do well in a recession
WORKFORCE: Managing a Multi-Generational Workforce
Speakers: Diane Piktialis, Ph.D. and Barbara McIntosh, Ph.D.
Learn how companies and other organizations are responding to a changing workforce.
WORKFORCE: Working Longer: New Strategies for Managing, Training and Recruiting Older Employees
Speakers:Diane M. Spokus, Ph. D., C.H.E.S., Harvey L. Sterns, Ph. D. and Joel M. Reaser, Ph.D.Learn innovative ways to address the changing workforce and how to train older workers.
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