Conference Program

4:45–5:45 PM
Presenters: Jonathan Becker, MA, Executive Director; Lucas Hale,
Wellness Coordinator; both of Senior Services Plus.
WE507 Serving Our Aging Neighbors:
It Takes a Community
4:45 PM | Riverside Center East, Table 10
The delivery of home-based older adult services includes some
expected and some unexpected partners in service delivery. The
best models that serve frail older adults living in the community
mobilize the efforts of publicly funded programs, schools,
community service programs and civic groups in win-win
partnerships. Efforts relate to emergency situations as well as
day-to-day functions.
Presenter: Joseph Tornello, LCSW, MSW, President and CEO, Meals
on Wheels of Staten Island, Inc.
WE509 Tips and Techniques for Living Well
With Age-Related Vision Loss
4:45 PM | Riverside Center East, Table 48
Are you the caregiver for someone who is experiencing vision
loss but you don’t quite know how to help? This session will
provide an overview of some of the most common age-related
eye conditions as well as quick and easy adaptations that can be
made to help older adults manage their vision loss.
Presenter: Doug Anzlovar, MS, Vice President, Education, and
Training, Hadley Institute for the Blind and Visually Impaired.
WE511 Training the Next Generation
of Geriatric Social Workers:
Two Graduate Program Models
4:45 PM | Riverside Center East, Table 7
This roundtable will give an overview of two different graduate
school social work models that train students in practice with
older adults. We will discuss the demographics of the student
population, as well as special field placements/internships that
are focused on working with older adults in a variety of settings.
Additional seminar and training opportunities offered to the
graduate students will also be discussed.
Presenters: Susan Brot, LMSW, Associate Director of Field Education
and Advisement, Touro College Graduate School of Social
Work; Sarah Swords, LCSW, Clinical Assistant Professor, The
University of Texas at Austin School of Social Work.
WE513 Unleash the Power of
Self-Directed Volunteer Teams
4:45 PM | Riverside Center East, Table 47
Self directed volunteer teams are a proven volunteer development
model, system and process designed to be powerfully
transformative and take organizational performance to a new
level. Harness this model in your organization to build your
capacity and to solve community problems.
Presenter: Christine Beatty, Senior Center and Services Director,
Madison Senior Center.
Business & Leadership
WE515 The Storymercial: The Best Communication
4:45 PM | Riverside Center East, Table 1
Working with older adults requires careful and precise communication.
Learning to use storytelling is a powerful way to
circumvent objections and long-held beliefs that may hinder
important life transitions. Content marketing, collateral creation
and other marketing information can be loaded with powerful
stories that create openness to change. The storymercial is a
powerful tool that can be learned and duplicated easily.
Presenter: Connie Mason-Michaelis, CEO, Just Now Old Enough.
Caregiving
WE517 A New Perspective on
Caregiver Stress and Trauma
4:45 PM | Riverside Center East, Table 23
This session will present a set of symptoms often exhibited by
primary family caregivers of older adults (PFCOA) and show
how these mimic characteristics of PTSD. It aims to provoke
discourse about the physiological and behavioral effects of
intensive caregiving and assess where current responses fall
short. It will then offer a new model for understanding the
caregiver experience called OTSD (ongoing traumatic stress
disorder), which recognizes how PFCOAs manage in a continuing
crisis state.
Presenter: Sarina Issenberg, LSW, MSW, Program Manager and
Counselor, Caregivers Reducing Stress Program, Lutheran Settlement
House Senior Center.
WE519 Building Stronger Family Caregivers
4:45 PM | Riverside Center East, Table 15
There are many aspects of caregiving that families may be
unaware of, or not sure where to turn for help. In this industry
we have taught people only to look for resources when they are
in a crisis; the idea of pre-planning is not relevant in our lives
because our belief system says it will never happen to us. As
leaders in our industry we need to normalize learning and understanding
about the aging process and resources. So, how does a
state or community begin the process of normalizing the need
to pre-plan?
Presenter: Bobbi Jo Leggett, Director of Caregiver Outreach
Services, Center for Active Generations.
WE521 Caregivers and Technology:
What’s Going Wrong?
4:45 PM | Riverside Center East, Table 26
Family caregivers are stretched thin, helping with everything
from medications to housecleaning. Technologists are bursting
with innovations to lighten the burden. Many are even free. But
caregivers have not embraced new tools designed to make their
lives easier. Why not? Katie Roper will present new research
from Caring.com on the very low adoption of caregiving
technology, and will facilitate a discussion around what we can
do to encourage people to take advantage of the tools that exist.
Presenter: Katie Roper, MBA, Vice President of Sales, Caring.com.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 22
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