Aging in Place Safety Tips
Aging in Place Safety Tips
Many older adults want to remain in their homes as long as possible as they age. This concept, known as “aging in place,” means living in one’s home safely, comfortably, and as independently as possible regardless of age or ability levels. How can adult-children a...
Running on Empty: Caregiver Compassion Fatigue
Running on Empty: Caregiver Compassion Fatigue
Caregiving can be both rewarding and stressful. Care providers will learn about the signs and impact of compassion fatigue and strategies for managing and reducing these stresses.
Communicating with Someone Living with Alzheimer’s and Other Dementias
Communicating with Someone Living with Alzheimer's and Other Dementias
Participants in this program will learn about communication changes related to dementia, understand the value of “entering” into their loved one’s “world,” and develop strategies for communication with their loved one throughout the course of the disease.
Battle of the Bills: Mitigating Financial Impact as Loved Ones Need More Care
Battle of the Bills: Mitigating Financial Impact as Loved Ones Need More Care
This ACAP program is aimed at helping participants become aware of sources of funding to help offset medical and long-term care expenses, including private individual/family resources, long-term care insurance, federal and state programs, VA benefits, life insurance pol...
Communicating with Individuals Living the Dementia Experience
Communicating with Individuals Living the Dementia Experience
You will learn three techniques to use in communicating with your loved one, living with dementia. We will discuss the importance of relationship building, the obstacles and the hills to climb. Please come ready to engage and have fun and walk away with a few new tool...
What You Don’t Know Can Hurt You: Prevalent Age-Related Health and Medical Conditions
What You Don’t Know Can Hurt You: Prevalent Age-Related Health and Medical Conditions
We are all living longer, and, as we age, we are more likely to experience one or more significant health and medical conditions. Learn about the most prevalent conditions associated with aging, risk factors, symptoms, and strategies for adult-children who are helping ...
Medicaid 101: Know if you Qualify (Join us for pizza!)
Medicaid 101: Know if you Qualify (Join us for pizza!)
Participants will gain knowledge regarding Medicaid eligibility requirements and services. They will learn: (1) how to access federal Medicaid websites to complete eligibility paperwork and download the current year's Medicaid manual; (2) how to access city, county, or ...
The Juggling Act: Work, Home and Caregiving
The Juggling Act: Work, Home and Caregiving
Learn how to balance the many roles of caregiving, family, home, work and one's own health and wellbeing.
Staying Put: Aging In Place
Staying Put: Aging In Place
This program will help adult children understand the concept of aging in place, assess their parents’ homes for safety and accessibility concerns, and become familiar with potential home remodeling and modifications that can help make their parents’ dreams reality.
Help in Your Own Backyard: Choosing and Using Services in Your Community
Help in Your Own Backyard: Choosing and Using Services in Your Community
Whenever possible, knowing where to go and whom to contact in the community before there is a crisis is essential in helping adult-children and other family caregivers feel more informed and less stressed. This introductory program will help participants to become more ...
Navigating the Medicare Maze
Navigating the Medicare Maze
An overview of Medicare will be provided, outlining Traditional vs. Modernized, supplements vs. Advantage and Plan F vs. Plan G. Drug coverage as well as enrollment periods will be discussed.
The Juggling Act: Work, Home, and Caregiving
The Juggling Act: Work, Home, and Caregiving
Become more educated about trends relative to working while also providing care for an aging parent, supportive workplace policies, and strategies for balancing the many demands of working outside the home while also caring for one’s family and older loved ones.
Strategies for Effectively Managing Medications (plus an ice cream social)
Strategies for Effectively Managing Medications (plus an ice cream social)
This ACAP program will assist participants to demonstrate knowledge about: 1) The relationship between aging, missed medications, medication errors and non-compliance; 2) Strategies for assessing a parent’s physical, mental and environmental risk factors for missed ...
Tourist in My Town: Community Resources and Activities for Keeping Older Loved Ones Engaged
Tourist in My Town: Community Resources and Activities for Keeping Older Loved Ones Engaged
Learn about community programs, clubs, community services and other local resources and their important role in helping loved ones remain socially engaged and avoid loneliness.
Tough Talks: Holding Difficult Conversations With Your Parents
Tough Talks: Holding Difficult Conversations With Your Parents
This program will help adult children prepare for and hold conversations with their aging parents about legal and financial issues, driving, and independent living so that adult children and their aging parents feel more confident that estate planning, financial decisio...
When Golden Years Aren’t Golden: Anxiety, Depression and Aging
When Golden Years Aren't Golden: Anxiety, Depression and Aging
Unfortunately, anxiety and depression in varying degrees are common in the older adult. This program will help family members recognize the symptoms and signs of distress in their loved one, understand some of the causes and identify ways to help.
Not all Memory Disorders are Created Equal: Living with a Parent with Alzheimer’s or Other Dementias
Not all Memory Disorders are Created Equal: Living with a Parent with Alzheimer's or Other Dementias
Gain a better understanding of and learn tips to help manage the daily challenges of living with a parent or other family member with Alzheimer’s disease or other dementia.
Keeping Loved Ones Safe and Engaged From a Distance
Keeping Loved Ones Safe and Engaged From a Distance
This ACAP program will assist participants in developing long-distance knowledge about and skills to: 1) Compile and manage parental records before an emergency occurs; 2) Recognize the signs of depression, neglect and/or abuse; 3) Put in place strategies for making ...
It Makes No Sense: Sensory Losses and Aging
It Makes No Sense: Sensory Losses and 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, de...
Home Sweet Home: Residential Options as we Age
Home Sweet Home: Residential Options as we Age
Deciding the best living situation for our aging loved ones can be overwhelming. This discussion will help clarify the choices: senior living options, personal care homes, independent living, assisted living, memory care and staying home with the support and assistance...
Help in Your Own Back Yard: Choosing and Using Services in Your Community
Help in Your Own Back Yard: Choosing and Using Services in Your Community
Become more knowledgeable about the services and resources available in the local community--especially as it relates to hurricane preparedness for people who are aging and their caregivers.
Communicating with Someone With Dementia
Communicating with Someone With Dementia
Participants will understand communication changes related to Alzheimer's disease and other dementias. They will develop strategies for connecting with the person with dementia by "entering" the persons perspective/view of current reality. They will also develop strat...
Aging: The Next Stage of Life
Aging: The Next Stage of Life
Learning about the psychological and developmental aspects of aging can help us open a new window on our understanding of aging - enabling us to appreciate and communicate more effectively with aging family members and enabling us to be better caregivers for them - and ...
What You Don’t Know Can Hurt You: Prevalent Age-Related Health and Medical Conditions
What You Don't Know Can Hurt You: Prevalent Age-Related Health and Medical Conditions
This program will help adult-children recognize common conditions associated with age and offer strategies on how to address them.
Tourist in My Town: Community Resources and Activities for Keeping Older Loved Ones Engaged
Tourist in My Town: Community Resources and Activities for Keeping Older Loved Ones Engaged
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 relationshi...
