IOA Speaking Topics Offered
Alzheimer's Disease and Dementia
— Am I losing my mind? Distinguishing between normal age-related
memory changes and those that are more concerning
— Capacity – what is it, how do you measure it and what happens
when you lose it
— Assessing the complex needs of older adults – a bio/psycho/social
model
— Psychological concerns of older adults
— Evaluating cognitive impairment
— Mild Cognitive Impairment – diagnosis and care
— Managing Challenging Behaviors/Communication Tips in the Dementia
Population
— Communicating with People Who Have Dementia
— Environmental Influences on People with Dementia
— Activities for People with Dementia
— What is Dementia?
— Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias: An Overview
— Active and Engaged: Strategies and Activites for Working with the Dementia Client
— Managing Challenging Behaviors
— Using Complimentary Alternative Medicine to treat Depression and Anxiety in people with Alzheimer’s or Other Dementias
— Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias: An Overview
— Memory loss, signs of demtentia, when to worry, etc.
Caregiver Resources & Care Management
— Barriers to older patient-provider communication and compliance
— Sexuality and Older Adults
— Working on Interdisciplinary Teams
— Working with an aging population: myths and realities
— Recognizing and Responding to Compassion Fatigue — When we care
for loved ones, neighbors, community members, we may forget to care
for ourselves
— Problem Behaviors — This presentation takes a look at some of
the reasons for "problem behaviors." Reasons can range from
medical needs to forms of communication. This workshop explores the
range of reasons in an effort to help with the behaviors
— Medical Equipment/Adaptive Devices to improve independence
— Working with Difficult Clients (for Care Managers)
— Advanced Care Management
— Specific to Care Management: Documentation, Determination, Risk Management
— Geriatric Care Management — Specific to MSSP: How to
Complete a Functional Grid
— Kol Haneshama: Jewish End of Life/Hospice Care Training
— Refuah Shleimah: A Spiritual Workshop Series for Physicians
— “Share the Care” care management and home care
— Working in a multi-disciplinary team: Definition of MDT and the
reasons that establishing contacts with other professionals can be valuable
to you
— Compassionate Communication
— Staying Mentally Healthy: Brain Fitness and Fun
Communication Tools
— Creating Meaningful Conversations
— Team Work
— Bikkur Cholim: Creating A Circle of Caring — This curriculum
is used to support and train a group of people that will be caring for
the ill in their communities
— Study Group for Jews in the Healing Arts
— Talking about Difficult Topics: Reducing the Stigma around Mental
Health and Aging
— Recognizing Obstacles that Interfere with Opportunities to Ask for
Help
Counseling and Healing
— Staying Mentally Fit
— Healing Service Training
— Expanding the mind and challenging the spirit
— Finding Your Balance (English & Spanish): Reviews 4 aspects of
life and interconnections; develops skills to find balance.
— Coping with Chronic Illness: Acknowledging the Losses of a Lifetime
— Using Forgiveness to Heal Hurt and Betrayal
— Older Adults and Self-Esteem: Growing and Enhancing Good Feelings
About Ourselves
— Facing Reality: Why Acknowledge End of Life Issues
— Enhancing our Lives: Does Spirituality Make A Difference?
— The Experience of Strong Emotions: The Need to Accept Responsibility
— Using Storytelling to Manage Stressful Events
— "I'm not the Person I Used to Be." — Managing Life
Transitions
— Resources for Older Adults
Creative Aging
— A holistic approach to providing visual, writing and performing arts
programs to elder service environments.
— Best Practices in Arts and Aging for Arts Programming
— Multi-media Life Story Workshop
— From Loss to Gain, The Creative Engagement and Healthy Challenge For
a Growing Elderly Population.
— Elderly Transitions and Building New Communities
— Thinking Around the Corner, Life-Enhancing Techniques and Special
Projects For Persons With Dementia
— Arts Programming and PACE
— Spirituality and Creative Awareness
— Victory Gardens and Goth — Intergenerational visual art and writing
programs and Community Service Learning
Elder Abuse
— Undue influence and Elder Abuse Assessment
— Domestic Violence in Late Life
— Power and Control (English & Spanish)
— Reviews issues and types of abuse aims to increase awareness to prevent
domestic violence in any form
— Trauma in Elder Abuse Victims
— Elder abuse: what is it, what causes it and how can you prevent it?
— Reporting to Adult Protective Services: when, why and how
— Detecting and intervening in elder abuse cases
— Ethical issues in dealing with the self-neglecting elder
— Domestic violence in late life
— Plan now to avoid financial abuse: General warning signs; things you
can do now to protect yourself from financial abuse
— Avoiding common cons, scams and frauds
— Seniors: A Look at Predatory Lending & Reverse Mortgage Scams -
for legal and non-legal professionals and the public
— Elder Abuse Awareness for Geriatric Professionals
— Working in a multi-disciplinary team: Definition of MDT; reasons that establishing contacts with other professionals can be valuable to you; impact of confidentiality on team work; learning other professionals' language.
Evaluation
— Logic models for programs — identification of inputs, outputs, outcomes, and impact
Institute on Aging Overview
— General Presentation on Institute on Aging Services
Mental Illness and Aging
— Traumatic Stress Disorder in the Elderly
— Personality Disorders – Strategies for Treatment Approaches
— Depression in Older Adults
— Assessment and treatment of depression in older adults in primary care
— Reading, understanding and utilizing neuropsychology assessment reports
— Therapy and older adults
Planning Ahead
— Independence for Life: Options for Staying at Home
Smoking Cessation
— Benefits of smoking cessation in older adults
Suicide and Depression
— Delirious, Demented, Depressed – How to tell the difference
and why it matters
— Managing the Holidays? How to Prevent Holiday Blues
— Why Suffer? Do We Have a Right to Die at a Time of Our Own Choosing?
— Creative Responses to Grief — In the United States today, older
people have the highest rate of suicide of any age population. What
factors account for this public health issue?
— Depression: Recognizing and Treating This Common Problem
View a listing of available IOA speakers!