HouseWorks seminars offer essential information for consumers and professionals in a concise, engaging format. Organizations may request a single seminar or any combination of the following presentations:
For all audiences
For professional providers, advisors, and business leaders
Aging Baby Boomers: What Do They Want? What Will They Need?
Within the next few years, the first of 77 million Baby Boomers will reach retirement age and everyone is taking notice. What will happen when this age wave rolls in? What do policy makers, healthcare providers, housing sponsors, and business leaders need to know? By taking a close look at the dramatic differences between Boomers and today's seniors, this seminar helps participants anticipate the changes and opportunities ahead.
Intentional Communities for Aging in Place: A Consumer Revolution
Inspired by the success of Boston's Beacon Hill Village, older adults across the country are forming consumer-led organizations that will make it possible for them to continue living at home as long as they choose to do so. Drawing on HouseWorks' active involvement in the movement, this presentation provides an insider's view of the new intentional communities (or senior "villages") and the senior living revolution they represent. Participants also learn how "village" volunteers are providing needed services while building community among members.
Technology and Eldercare: Transforming the Aging-in-Place Landscape
In-home health monitoring equipment and smart-house technology are rapidly expanding options for seniors who want to age in place. At the same time, new internet applications are reconnecting isolated seniors to their communities while providing powerful support for family caregivers. This seminar introduces audiences to the welcome changes technology is bringing to the everyday lives of older adults and family caregivers.
The Power of Home Modification
Does your mother need help in the shower or does she simply need a shower she can manage on her own? This presentation reviews strategies for enhancing safety, comfort, and independence throughout the home, including simple, no-cost measures that make a dramatic difference. Participants are also introduced to design innovations, the latest adaptive technology, and alternatives for making changes attractive and acceptabale.
Navigating the Eldercare Maze
This presentation provides the tips and tools that empower adult children to respond with confidence when elderly parents need their help. Topics of discussion include home care and housing options, costs and coverage, getting the right help, family dynamics, long distance caregiving, and strategies for helping parents accept assistance.
Making the Move to Senior Housing
Even under the best of circumstances, relocation is one of life's most stressful events. No wonder the very thought of moving to senior housing overwhelms so many seniors and their families. This seminar helps participants face the job with insight and confidence, presenting resources and strategies that ease the transition.
Fall Prevention: What Everyone Needs to Know
Falls are not only the leading cause of injury deaths among seniors, they also cause 90% of hip fractures and are the most preventable cause of needing nursing home placement. While there are no simple solutions, recent research tell us what we all should know to substantially reduce the risk of falling. This seminar gives participants the information they need to safeguard health and independence by preventing disabling falls.
Home Care in Senior Housing: Keys to a Great Relationship
The trend is clear: more and more seniors are choosing to bring home care into their senior housing apartments rather than moving to a care facility when their needs increase. This seminar explores the issues this trend raises for senior housing providers. Drawing on HouseWorks' extensive experience, the seminar also describes best practices that meet the needs of residents and providers alike.
Geriatric Care Managers & Private Home Care: A Win-Win Relationship
This seminar introduces field-tested approaches to communications, collaboration, and cross referral that support quality care, client satisfaction, and a working relationship that benefits the GCM, the home care company, and the client.
Long-Term Care's Out-of-Pocket Costs: Comparing the Options
As many consumers have discovered, long term-care can be extremely expensive wherever it's provided. By clarifying costs associated with the type of care a senior needs - whether provided at home, in an assisted living facility, or a nursing home - this seminar shows participants how to estimate total expenses and evaluate financing options. Medicare and Medicaid coverage, private insurance options and other financing strategies are discussed.
The Business of Private-Pay Home Care: Trends and Opportunities
What's on the horizon for this rapidly growing industry? How will new technology, increased regulation, and Baby Boomer values transform today's business models? What opportunities and challenges lie ahead? This seminar addresses these questions and more from the provider's perspective.
Seminar Sponsors
HouseWorks co-founders and senior staff have delivered presentations on eldercare and senior living issues for wide variety of local, regional, and national organizations.
American Society on Aging
National Association for Home Care & Hospice
National Council on Aging
National Private Duty Association
University of Buffalo, Center for Inclusive Design
AAHSA
Capitol Hill Village
National Aging in Place Council
Prince George's Senior Providers
The Transition Network (TTN)
The Watergate Initiative
Willow Manor
Beacon Hill Village
Boston University School of Management
Cambridge at Home
Harvard Graduate School of Design
Harvard Medical Center Office of Work and Family
Hebrew SeniorLife
Home and Health Care Association of Massachusetts
Hospice and Palliative Care Federation of Massachusetts
Jewish Family & Children's Service
Legacy Financial Advisors
Lincoln Council on Aging
Margolis & Associates
Massachusetts Extended Care Federation
MassALFA
Mintz Levin
New England Geriatric Care Managers
Old Colony Elder Services
Striar Jewish Community Center
Summerville at Farm Pond
The Commonwealth Institute
Tufts University, Osher Lifelong Learning Institute
Walpole Council on Aging
Waltham Crossings Assisted Living
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