When Golden Years Aren’t Golden: Anxiety, Depression and Aging
When Golden Years Aren’t Golden: Anxiety, Depression and Aging
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.
Home is Where the Heart Is: Residential Options as We Age
Home is Where the Heart Is: Residential Options as We Age
Learn about residential options and resources available to people in your community as they age, along with issues to consider and questions to ask, regardless of where you are on your caregiving journey.
The Aging Toolbox: Practical Tips for Caring for an Aging Parent
The Aging Toolbox: Practical Tips for Caring for an Aging Parent
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.
Thank You for Your Service: Veterans’ Affairs Benefits
Thank You for Your Service: Veterans' Affairs Benefits
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.
Help in Your Own Backyard: Choosing and Using Services in Your Community
Help in Your Own Backyard: Choosing and Using Services in Your Community
People needing services for themselves or an aging loved one do not always know when or where to begin or even what kind of help is available. The process of finding help can be stressful, overwhelming and confusing. AgeWell Atlanta can be the aging service concierge yo...
The Aging Toolbox: Practical Tips for Caring for Aging Loved Ones
The Aging Toolbox: Practical Tips for Caring for Aging Loved Ones
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 progra...
Aging Together: Aging for Our Future
Aging Together: Aging for Our Future
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.
Running on Empty: Caregiver Compassion Fatigue
Running on Empty: Caregiver Compassion Fatigue
Most caregivers find themselves mentally, physically, and spiritually exhausted at some point. Learn to recognize the signs of "compassion fatigue", find balance, and learn some strategies and resources for taking care of yourself so you can continue to care for your lo...
Trip of a Lifetime? Preventing Falls by Aging Loved Ones
Trip of a Lifetime? Preventing Falls by Aging Loved Ones
This program will help adult-children understand movement and mobility challenges as loved ones age and offer specific and practical tips for preventing falls in the home and in the community.
Not All Memory Disorders are Created Equal: Understanding Alzheimer’s and Other Dementias
Not All Memory Disorders are Created Equal: Understanding Alzheimer's and Other Dementias
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.
Finding Clarity in Confusion: A Dementia Presentation for Care Partners
Finding Clarity in Confusion: A Dementia Presentation for Care Partners
This program will help you gain a better understanding of what dementia is and how it may affect your loved one. Learn how best to approach diagnosis, the next steps to care, and create a care team and solvent care plan.
Running on Empty: Caregiver Compassion and Fatigue ***CANCELED***
Running on Empty: Caregiver Compassion and Fatigue ***CANCELED***
This program is designed to help adult-children recognize the signs of compassion fatigue and learn some strategies and resources for managing and reducing the condition.
Tough Talks: Holding Difficult Discussion With Your Parents
Tough Talks: Holding Difficult Discussion With Your Parents
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.
Advance Care Planning: Legal and Financial Documents Everyone Needs
Advance Care Planning: Legal and Financial Documents Everyone Needs
This ACAP program is designed to educate participants about advance care planning so that they may be more aware of the advantages, terminology, and necessary documents.
Trip of a Lifetime? Preventing Falls by Aging Loved Ones
Trip of a Lifetime? Preventing Falls by Aging Loved Ones
Learn about movement and mobility challenges as loved ones age and gain specific and practical tips and tools for preventing falls in the home and in the community.
Medicare Fraud and Abuse
Medicare Fraud and Abuse
Medicare Fraud impacts your loved ones pocketbook, compromising their health. This presentation shows How you can help in the fight against medicare fraud.
Town Hall Holiday Event – Winston-Salem Chapter
Town Hall Holiday Event - Winston-Salem Chapter
Join some our our knowledgeable speakers from the past year who will be participating in a group Q&A session and an engaging discussion about caring for our aging loved ones.
When Golden Years Aren’t Golden: Anxiety, Depression and Aging
When Golden Years Aren't Golden: Anxiety, Depression and Aging
Learn about mental health issues that are frequently associated with aging, recognize the characteristics and potential causes, and learn tips for communicating with loved ones and professionals to effectively manage the symptoms.
Centre County 2022 Holiday Party
Centre County 2022 Holiday Party
Come join us for a town hall style event to interact with speakers throughout the year and celebrate the season with other ACAPers!
Losing My Independence: Driving and Aging
Losing My Independence: Driving and Aging
This program will address the warning signs of driving impairment in aging adults, suggest evaluation strategies, present transportation alternatives, and present scenarios for discussing driving with our parents.
Cancelled: Family Social, Resource Fair
Cancelled: Family Social, Resource Fair
The Guilford County December program has been cancelled. We are sorry for the inconvenience and hope to see you again in January!
Putting the Pieces Together: Family Dynamics and Sibling Issues in Caregiving
Putting the Pieces Together: Family Dynamics and Sibling Issues in Caregiving
This program is designed to help adult-children and their families learn to communicate more effectively so they may express their concerns, more appropriately share the workload, make decisions collaboratively and, in general, care for their aging parents as a more bal...
Knowing Your Limits as a Caregiver: Setting Boundaries and Balancing Family
Knowing Your Limits as a Caregiver: Setting Boundaries and Balancing Family
Even the best, most committed caregivers can experience caregiver exhaustion, depression, anxiety, and illness. Caregiving often requires sacrificing time, energy, and resources to provide for the care partner. Setting boundaries and practicing self-care can help preven...
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 full array of services and resources available in the local community--both for people who are aging and their caregivers.
Staying Put: Aging in Place
Staying Put: Aging in Place
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 rea...
2022 National Caregiver Symposium
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.
Difficult Discussions with your Parents: Making Decisions and Plans
Difficult Discussions with your Parents: Making Decisions and Plans
This program will help adult children prepare for and hold conversations with their aging parents about legal and financial issues, driving, and independent living.
Medicare & SHIIP: The Must-Knows
Medicare & SHIIP: The Must-Knows
This program will help adult-children understand Medicare and SHIIP programs that may offer benefits to their aging parents so that they can be more informed advocates for their parents’ health and medical care and service coverage.
