- Commonwealth Care Plan & Medicare Made Simple -- What's New in 2007?
Health insurance information for seniors is more complex and confusing then ever before. Have your questions answered and learn about the alphabet soup of Medicare (A, B, C, and D) in 2007. Learn about Commonwealth Care, the innovative state program for people of all ages who have no insurance. Trainers from the SHINE Health benefits counseling program and Commonwealth Care will conduct the workshop.
- Elder Protective Services and Mandated Reporting Requirements In Massachusetts
More than 2.1 million elders in the United States are abused or neglected each year. Learn how to identify reportable conditions of elder abuse and neglect, potential elder financial exploitation, and elders who may be at risk due to self-neglect. Learn about mandated reporting requirements and recent changes to the Massachusetts General Laws related to Elder Protective Services.
- Understanding the Basics of Reverse Mortgages
Learn the basics of reverse mortgages, including the many myths and misconceptions. Information will be provided on the history of reverse mortgages, current industry standards and rules, and how to know if a reverse mortgage might be a viable option to supplement meager pensions and social security payments, finance long term care or purchase long term care insurance.
- Caring For Yourself As You Care For Others
Working in the "helping professions" can be both rewarding and very stressful. Learn how to achieve a healthy
balance for yourself.
- How To Have A Caring Conversation
Learn strategies and techniques for initiating challenging conversations with consumers, caregivers, or co-workers that will increase the possibilities of a mutually satisfying outcome.
- Coping With Difficult Alzheimer's Behaviors
AD can lead to changes in personality and behavior such as aggression, delusions, wandering and anxiety. Learn how
to identify and effectively cope with these behaviors.
- Working With Employed Caregivers
The pressures of caring for an elder can be exacerbated by a lack of support in the workplace. This session will
review the growing employee caregiver demographics, identify best practices for businesses, and describe the pressures of elder caregiving
and its impact on both employees and the workplace.
- Managing Challenging Behaviors: Practical Strategies and Risk Management
Challenging behaviors emerge for many different reasons. This session will focus on behaviors including verbal
threats, potential physical abuse with people who are cognitively impaired, have mental health issues or life-long coping behaviors. Learn
about these behaviors, why they might be happening, and practical strategies for de-escalation. The session will generalize into
de-escalation with clients and co-workers in an office, program site or in a home setting.
- "Their Real World"…A Sensory Experience About Alzheimer's Disease
This unique sensitivity training experience gives participants a better understanding of how it "feels" to live
with AD. Celebrate National Alzheimer's Disease Month by attending this powerful, sensory experience by Mal Allard LPN/Advocate.
- Working Effectively With Families: Understanding Shifting Family Roles
Identify how an aging parent's development impacts family roles. Develop skills to facilitate successful family
meetings, apply strategies for care planning, and learn responses to family denial that may help family members adjust to changes and make
decisions that result in support for each other.
- Ethical Issues in Home and Community Based Elder Care
As we work to help elders age with dignity and independence, sometimes values conflict and ethical dilemmas arise.
Explore these issues and how to address them. Learn how to set up an internal Ethical Issues Committee.
- Lobbying for Success!
Those working with seniors and the disabled can offer a unique and powerful voice to influence public policy and
programs, legislation and the budgetary process. Learn now a bill becomes law, how the state budgetary process works, how to communicate
with legislators, give testimony and empower your clients to have their voices heard on current legislative issues.
- Sensitivity Training: Working With Seniors With Disabilities
Experience what it would feel like to have a physical or sensory impairment. Use this information to expand and
improve your interpersonal skills with disabled seniors.
- Watch Your Back! Body Mechanics As Your Work With Seniors
Learn the techniques for back safety and good body mechanics that are essential to anyone whose work involves
lifting or mobility assistance.
- Legal Issues in Eldercare
The legal issues involved in estate planning and health care decisions are numerous and complex. Without
turning you into a lawyer, this Caring Conversation will help professionals help their clients with an explanation of wills,
trusts, power of attorney, and more. This is not intended as a substitute for qualified legal counsel, but a quick way to learn
the basics and be even more helpful to your clients.
