Learn how to have difficult conversations with your parents as they age and need to begin planning for changes to their independent living so that everyone is on the same page.
This program is designed to help adult children understand Alzheimer’s disease and other age-related types of dementia so they can help their parents manage these diseases and choose the resources and supports that best help their aging parents and themselves.
This program will provide adult-children with practical tips and tools to use for gathering information when visiting aging parents, along with strategies for holding conversations with siblings and other family members about needs and services. In addition, this program addresses practical guidance for hands-on caregiving and when to get additional help.
This program will help adult children to understand Veteran Affairs programs that may benefit their aging parents so that they be more informed advocates for their aging parents’ health and medical care and service coverage.
This program will help adult children understand and differentiate between anxiety and depression, recognize the characteristics and potential causes, and offer tips for communicating with loved ones and key professionals to effectively manage the symptoms.
In the past decade there have been significant advances in technology to help older adults stay safe. This program will offer participants information about the variety of current and cutting-edge technology designed to ensure the safety and engagement of loved ones.
This program will help adult-children understand that hospitalizations/re-hospitalizations, exacerbation of medical conditions, or declining medical conditions could be related to missed medications, medication errors, and medication non-compliance, most of which can be prevented. This program offers specific and practical tips that can be implemented by adult-children to keep their parents safely in the home and in the community.
This program is designed to educate participants about advance care planning so that they may be more aware of the advantages, terminology, and necessary documents.
Every second of every day, an older adult falls and one out of every 5 of these cause serious injury. Falls do not and should not be considered a normal part of aging. This presentation will discuss environmental and activity modifications that can help prevent falls.
This ACAP program will help participants become aware of local resources and services and the important role that community programs, clubs and leisure service organizations serve in helping their loved ones remain socially engaged, while also clarifying the relationship between loneliness/social isolation and health and how to identify signs and symptoms of loneliness and social isolation.
Sustaining Partner
formerly United Church Homes and Services