I am very adaptable and can work within any format, but here’s a method I designed to greatly improve eldercare knowledge and cohesiveness within a community: If your event is for the public (nominal fee + RSVP), make it also available to healthcare professionals for a regular fee for their CEU’s and CME’s—as most won’t come otherwise. If your event is for your own members/professionals, make it also available at the nominal fee to the public, as that assures free media exposure where your organization and the other sponsors will get FREE advertising! That motivates more sponsors to become involved, which distributes the cost while multiplying the attendance as they will all help to promote the event.
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Ahead from southern CA, I can give interviews to your local print and radio media, and then arrive there early for a day of in-person radio and television interviews—always mentioning your organization first and then the sponsors in order of their monetary involvement. I can give 2 presentations (or maybe 3 if you have a small location) to maximize possible attendance: 2 hrs + Q&A in the morning, moderate a panel in the afternoon, and then speak again early evening to a whole new group of attendees. You will receive my list of Sponsor Ideas and I will invite my contacts in your area from my 10,000+ database. I have developed extensive Seminar Guidelines and Templates for most everything you’ll need to help make your event a huge success.
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TOPICS: Most of these can be included within any length presentation (I prefer 2 hrs + Q&A), easily modified to the focus/theme of your event, and adjusted to any type of audience. (CEU & CME’s for healthcare professionals including doctors.) Having been a college professor in my first life, I keep an audience “edu-tained” by injecting poignant and humorous anecdotes amid interesting facts and statistics. I am also experienced with moderating or being part of a panel, workshops, teleseminars, and presenting all day seminars myself.
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· Planning for a Long-Term Life
· Recognizing Normal Aging vs. Dementia /Alzheimer’s: Warning Signs, Stages, Types, Statistics
· Finding the Right Medical Team for Accurate Diagnosis, Prognosis and Treatment
· Implementing Behavior Modification: Distraction/Redirection, Reminiscence, Validation, Rewards
· Get Elders to: See Doctor, Take Meds, Eat, Stop Driving, Accept Caregiver, Attend Day Care, Move
· Manage Aggression, Depression, Delusions, Hallucinations, Repetition, Sun-downing, Wandering
· Hiring Caregivers and Geriatric Care Managers
· Understanding Value of Adult Day Care and Activities
· Safety-Proofing the Home
· Preventing Elder Abuse, Neglect, Exploitation
· Moving to Assisted Living, Skilled Nursing, Dementia Care
· Finding the Best Resources, Products, Support Groups, Respite, Hospice
· Caring for the Caregiver: Coping with Siblings, Stress, Guilt and Grief
· Preparing for Our Own Later Years and Dementia Prevention