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The NYS Coalition for the Aging, Inc.
The Geriatric Mental Health Alliance of NY
& the NYS Association of Area Agencies on Aging, Inc.

Announce:
A Professional Development Workshop

Registration

This six-hour seminar will provide participants with an understanding of the dynamics that affect family relationships in late life and some strategies for intervention. Health and aging service providers often encounter difficult family situations that involve avoidance, resistance and conflict, which often prevent provision of optimal care or service delivery. Such behaviors often occur when an older parent begins to face loss of independence but the parents and children have never discussed the renegotiation of roles or expectations. Similarly, there is a small but growing knowledge base about caregiver careers. Recent studies have shown that the circumstances and processes by which an adult child comes to be a caregiver for a parent can have a significant impact on the care giving experience and outcomes for the parent. This interactive seminar will include presentation, film clips, case presentations and small group assignments.

Family Interventions for Older Adults & Their Families:
In this seminar participants with learn:

  • What is known about older parent-adult child relationships.
  • About the family life cycle and its impact on family behaviors and relationships.
  • How to access family structure, function and emotions.
  • Interventions to assist adult children in communicating and problem solving with their parents, especially around renegotiation of roles.
  • Interventions to help heal broken family relationships.
  • About the significance of the caregiver’s career.
  • Practical applications of these skills.

Workshop Dates, Sites and Times:

  • Thursday, July 31, 2008 - Kingsway Arms Nursing Center, 323 Kings Road, Schenectady, NY. Time: 9:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m., lunch provided.
  • Friday, August 1, 2008 – St. Francis Hospital, 241 North Road, Poughkeepsie, NY. Time:  9:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m., lunch provided.
  • Thursday, September 11, 2008 – Amherst Center for Senior Services, 370 John James Audubon Parkway, Amherst, NY. Time: 9:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m., lunch provided.
  • Friday, September 12, 2008 – Oneida Indian Nation, 5000 Skenondoa Way, Oneida, NY. Time: 9:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m., lunch provided.
  • Friday, September 19, 2008 – Senior Citizens Council Clinton County, 5139 North Catherine St., Plattsburgh, NY. Time: 9:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m., lunch provided.