Events

Join engAGED: The National Resource Center for Engaging Older Adults for a webinar September 19, 2022 from 12:00-1:00 PM EST focused on social engagement for people living with dementia. During the webinar, Rush Alzheimer’s Disease Center will provide a framer on social isolation and loneliness among people living with dementia. Pima Council on Aging and Gateway Geriatric Education Center will then highlight programs and interventions that help people living with dementia and caregivers stay socially engaged. All speakers will share tips for organizations to develop, implement and sustain these social engagement opportunities.

According to a recent USAging poll, direct care worker shortages are threatening the ability of older adults to age well at home. While larger systems change and policy solutions are needed, AAAs are using a variety of innovative stop-gap measures to address workforce shortages and ensure that older adults can receive the services and supports they need. Learn from a panel of AAA staff who have implemented creative and successful strategies to address workforce challenges. Among the strategies highlighted will be creating new rapid response and community care positions, conducting outreach to potential caregivers and dividing job tasks among multiple worker or provider types.

Among health systems, healthcare providers, and health insurers, the importance of addressing SDOH — particularly for those with complex care needs — has come into sharp focus. The Partnership to Align Social Care is a cross-sector effort to co-design a multi-faceted strategy to enable successful partnerships between healthcare organizations and networks of CBOs, or Community Care Hubs. Join the Partnership and health and social care sector leaders for a deep dive into the important role of Community Care Hubs in promoting an equitable health and social care ecosystem. Attendees will gain: A brief overview of the Partnership to Align Social Care and the effort to achieve an aligned health and social care system that reflects and incorporates the vital voice of the community; Background on the evolution of the Community Care Hub concept and its value proposition; Perspective from CBO and healthcare leaders detailing their experience in building and contracting with CBO networks and hubs.

In this webinar hosted by USAging’s Aging and Disability Business Institute, Sharon Williams of Williams Jaxon Consulting will discuss which metrics are important for health plans, how the services that AAAs and CBOs provide can impact these measures, and how they can use this information to make pitches to health care organizations.

There is a common misconception that people older than age 65 are all alike. This stereotype couldn’t be further from the truth. A recent Gallup poll found that 7% of American adults identify as LGBTQ, the highest number of LGBTQ residents in the United States since Gallup began polling. Other studies show that 22% of people ages 65 and older reported having a disability, and yet another study found that by 2030, the population of older racial/ethnic minority populations will increase by 89%, compared to a 39% increase in White older adults. This webinar will review in-depth intersecting minority identities among older adults (focusing primarily on race, disability, social class, and LGTBQ+ identities) and will encourage participants to explore their own biases and assumptions, as well as strategies for reducing cultural bias in clinical interactions. A model will be shared for deepening interpersonal cultural humility and vignettes will be used to apply knowledge. Participants in this webinar will: Define cultural humility. Illustrate intersecting minority identities among people older than age 65 (focusing primarily on age, race, disability, social class, and LGTBQ+ identities). Describe the important role of resilience factors among minoritized people older than age 65. Presenter: Dr. Regina Koepp is a board-certified clinical psychologist and founder and director of the Center for Mental Health & Aging. She is the lead medical psychologist at University of Vermont Medical Center and creator and host of the Psychology of Aging Podcast. She is a sought-after speaker on the topics of mental health and aging, caregiving, ageism, cultural humility, sexual health and aging, intimacy in the context of life-altering Illness and dementia and sexual expression. She is creator of the only dementia and sexual health certification program in the United States. Dr. Koepp a contributing writer at Psychology Today and Psychotherapy Networker, where she discusses mental health and sexual health in the context of aging and illness. She has been featured in the New York Times, Chicago Tribune, Baltimore Sun, Insider and other national periodicals. This is the second webinar in the Leading Change in Aging Through DEI Accountability series co-hosted by the Aging and Disability Business Institute and the American Society on Aging.