THIS TRAINING IS FREE TO ALL
October 19, 2010
9:00 - 12:15 PM
3 CEU clock hours
Location: 115 Stillman Hall, 1947 College Road
REGISTER - THIS TRAINING IS FULL - REGISTRATION CLOSED
Families are the bedrock of long-term care. As chronic and long-term care systems become more complex and demanding, care transitioning processes offer a critical opportunity to treat family caregivers as important care partners. In this three hour training, participants will discuss the issues and challenges facing our family caregivers, where to locate community and online resources and discuss what might be available in the future.
Gail Neustadt will contribute her personal journey and experiences as a family caregiver and introduce a different type of grieving process. Ms. Neustadt will also lead a discussion on the unique characteristics shared universally by spousal caregivers.
At the conclusion of this training, participants will:
· Have a better understanding of the issues and challenges facing family caregivers
· Learn about community and online resources available to family caregivers, as well as some novel options that might be available in the future.
· Understand the caregiver’s journey which introduces a different type of grieving process
· Be aware of the unique characteristics shared universally by spousal caregivers
Meet your presenters:
Gail Neustadt’s professional training was as a Speech Language Pathologist with sub specialties in geriatric rehabilitation, communication programming for dementia, third party reimbursement policy and documentation. She has authored several books and many articles and spoken extensively on these subjects during her working years. Ms. Neustadt sat on several Technical Expert Panels during the Center for Medicare and Medicaid’s Case Mix Demonstration Project which established the prospective payment system for Long Term Care and was the owner and operator of a rehabilitation private practice for over ten years. Although Ms. Neustadt holds a license in Nursing Home Administration she is currently retired but serving on community boards and remains active in her field.
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Keith A. Anderson, PhD, has served as Assistant Professor in the College of Social Work at The Ohio State University since 2007. Prior to returning to academia, he worked as a clinical social worker at The Washington Home, a nursing home and hospice located in Washington, DC. Keith received a BA in Economics from Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, an MSW from Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia, and a PhD in Gerontology from the University of Kentucky in Lexington, Kentucky. His doctoral dissertation focused on the grief experiences of nursing assistants and was funded through a John A. Hartford Doctoral Fellowship in Geriatric Social Work.
As a scholar, Keith’s research focuses primarily on the well-being of older adults and their caregivers, understanding and improving quality of life in long-term care settings, and death, dying, and bereavement issues. His research has been funded both publicly and privately and his work has been published in a number of peer-reviewed journals and books. He has presented his research findings at local, state, and national conferences. Keith was recently named a Faculty Scholar in Geriatric Social Work by the John A. Hartford Foundation.
In addition to teaching at The Ohio State University, Keith has taught in the colleges of social work at the University of Kentucky and the University of Louisville. His teaching focuses on aging, social gerontology, social welfare policy, and death, dying, and bereavement. Keith was awarded the Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award in the College of Social Work for years 2008 and 2009.
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Lisa Durham, MSW, LISW-S, is the Assistant Dean of Community Engagement and the Director of Field Education in the College of Social Work at The Ohio State University. Lisa served as the Director of Community Education and Outreach with the Central Ohio Area Agency on Aging for 7 years. She has many years of experience in working with older adults, from case management to counseling, to training. Lisa also teaches at The Ohio State University, College of Social Work and she has been a presenter at state, national and international conferences.
