The Consultation Center

EDUCATION AND TRAINING

The staff of the Elder Program offers workshops, individual presentations or a series designed to meet the interest and needs of a particular audience. Our goal is to promote mental health and enhance the quality of life for older adults and their caregivers.

For Human Service Providers

• Depression in Later Life: What It Is and How We Can Be Supportive

• Memory and Aging: What’s Usual and What’s Not (includes communicating with memory impaired people)

• Caregiver Stress: Assessment and Coping Skills

• Preserving Dignity: End of Life Care (sample topics: the elements of advance care planning, palliative care, how to begin the dialogue, surrogate decision-making, grief and loss)

• Family Caregiving: Viewing It from Their Perspective

• Working with Older Adults with Difficult Behaviors

• Conscious Aging and Successful Aging — What Are They?

For Family and Friends

• Memory and Aging: What’s Usual and What’s Not

• Depression in Older Adults

• Dialogue and Documents: Advance Care Planning

• The Caregiver Challenge: Maintaining Balance

• Community Resources: The Core of Care at Home

• Substance Abuse and Older Adults: It Can Be the Prescriptions Too

• The Older Driver: Balancing Safety and Independence

For Older Adults

• Healthy Partnership: Working with Health Professionals in a Managed Care Era

• The Older Driver: Balancing Safety and Independence

• Advance Care Planning: Beginning the Dialogue with Family

• Depression: How to Recognize It and What to Do

• Successful Aging: Taking the Initiative

• Retirement: It’s a Process, Not an Event

Cost: Training fees are negotiable. Cost depends on the type of program offered, the location of the presentation, and the subject matter.

Email Donna Fedus or call her at (203) 789-7645 to discuss setting up a program for your organization or group.

THE GERONTOLOGICAL TRAINING SERIES

The Series is designed for health care professionals, paraprofessionals, human service providers and other individuals working with older adults and their families. It provides the opportunity for attendees to learn together, away from the pressure of their daily work environments. The curriculum emphasizes the psychosocial aspects of a particular topic and the sessions are interactive. Attendees come from a variety of settings such as home care, long-term care facilities, adult day programs, senior centers, assisted living, senior housing, religious institutions and volunteer organizations.

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If you have any questions or would like additional information about the training series, please email Donna Fedus or call her at 203-789-7645.