2022 National Caregiver Symposium
Join hundreds of others in a virtual community to hear from leading caregiving experts, become aware of helpful resources, experience support, and gain new caregiving insights.
Join hundreds of others in a virtual community to hear from leading caregiving experts, become aware of helpful resources, experience support, and gain new caregiving insights.
This program will help adult-children understand the concept of aging in place, to assess their parents’ homes for safety and accessibility concerns, and to become familiar with potential home remodeling and modifications that can help make their parents’ dreams reality.
This program will provide adult-children of aging parents with a framework for understanding aging as a psychological and developmental process along with strategies for enhancing our relationships and experiences with the aging process.
This program will help adult children understand the complexities of discharge planning and services that may be provided in the home after hospitalization. This program offer practical tips that can be implemented to ensure the best outcomes for returning home after a hospital stay and keeping their older loved one in the home and community. […]
This program will help participants become aware of healthy movement and its impact on physical, cognitive, and emotional well-being, local resources that focus on supporting movement and exercise for an older population, and specific movement activities and exercises that will help stregnthen bodes and minds at all stages of aging.
This program will help adult -Children understand various types of vision and hearing losses and their functional impact on daily living, the roles of various professionals who might be involved in diagnosing and treating hearing and vision loss and examples of aids, devices, technology, and support strategies that may help older adults live independently.
https://youtube.com/live/hmRLYx71z5k 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. Program Presenter: […]
As parents age, they may face a need and/or desire to change their housing arrangements, such as needing to move to a new residence that is more accessible and/or with more substantial medical and assistive services. This introductory program will provide an overview of the array of residential options and resources available to aging adults in the community, along with issues to consider and questions to ask, regardless of where you are on your caregiving journey.
Please note: Due to weather concerns, tomorrow’s program will be offered as an online livestream only. There will be no in-person version of this month’s program. This program is designed to help adult-children expand their perspectives about caregiver guilt and other emotions, understand the importance of proactively managing their guilt, and present strategies for setting […]