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Engage the community in Active Aging Week webinar

Sponsored by IPFH, Thoro, SilverSneakers, EnerG by Aegis, NCOA, Falls Free

What makes Active Aging Week successful? Collaborations and partnerships are one way to bring together a team-internal or external-to provide an educational and fun week. Join three veteran hosts of Active Aging Week events and share their best practices in working with others to expand the week's offerings while showcasing wellness opportunities available year-round. You'll learn how the week has been planned at a retirement community, a community center and by building a coalition of multiple public and private organizations. Find out what worked really well-and what didn't.

You'll leave with:

• The goals that drive the Active Aging Week events
  
• Tips for recruiting colleagues and outside organizations to participate
  
• Timelines for planning and soliciting speakers or locations
  
• "Out of the box" ideas to promote physical and social activation

Panelists:

Rebecca Chaplin, Aging Program Specialist for the Area Agency on Aging (AAA), Land of Sky Regional Council in Western North Carolina, works with a regional advisory team to produce events across four counties, at locations such as community centers, hospitals, parks, universities and private studios. Their coalition is strong at getting community buy-in, including sponsorships. The AAA has been facilitating this regional process since 2007.

Marianne Pinkham, Regional Director at Spectrum Generations community centers in Maine, has organized Active Aging Week events for six years. Marianne has really evolved the programming for older adults in the community, and for Active Aging Week, has gone both indoors and outdoors. Marianne is adept at bringing in local resources and sponsors.

Melissa Rukstad is Director of Health and Wellness at The Village at Germantown in Tennessee. This CCRC features Active Aging Week across a week with lots of fun mixed in with the presentations and learning. They work to involve as many residents as possible, and start with an internal committee to organize the event with resident input. This will be their fifth year hosting Active Aging Week.

Here is a link to a recording of the presentation:
Duration: 58 minutes

And, a link to the slides, saved as a 24-page PDF

Fee: No charge

Motivating older adults: A solution-focused alternative to “I Can’t”

Presenter: James Huysman, PsyD, LCSW

Motivational Interviewing and Brief Solution-Focused Therapy (BSFT) techniques can be used in any wellness setting to keep clients and groups on track. Basic skills in these techniques are simple to learn and apply. They are highly adaptable across wellness milieus to create positive reinforcement and self-esteem through innovative behavioral health approaches. With a goal of making clients better partners in their own health, this webinar will present approaches that is culturally in sync both for older adults and medical home settings.

Duration: 58 minutes

To view the recording, call the ICAA Office at 866-335-9777 or email info@icaa.cc

Fee: US $49

Avoid the Holidaze—Gift Yourself with Wellness

Presented by James Huysman, PsyD, LCSW

Regardless of what you celebrate, the holiday season can be fraught with additional responsibilities and "things to do." That long list can leave you dazed and exhausted. Aside from family plans, you have the added task of making things merry and bright for your co-workers and clients. Don't let stress ruin your holidays! If you are willing to practice personal wellness, your holiday season can be joyful. Join a compassion fatigue therapist for techniques you can use to keep the spirit of the season flowing. Duration: 61 minutes

Fee: US $49

To view the recording, call the ICAA Office at 866-335-9777 or email info@icaa.cc

Vibration training, shaking up exercise

Presented by Joseph Signorile, PhD, University of Miami

Focused on research studies that included people 50 years and older and looked at one segment of the emerging literature on vibration training—fitness and functional ability—this presentation continues the information supplied in two articles in the Journal on Active Aging: “Whole body vibration, part one: what’s shakin’ now?” (September-October 2011) and “Whole body vibration, part two: what’s the most effective protocol?” (November-December 2011). Duration: 59 minutes

Fee: US $49

To view the recording, call the ICAA Office at 866-335-9777 or email info@icaa.cc

Increase occupancy with a success plan and customized conversation

Presented by Karen Woodward-Chavez, President, Premium Performance Training

To increase occupancy in senior living communities, salespeople must be inspirational and persuasive as well as informative. This presentation covers the number of conversations needed to meet personal and organizational sales goals, along with the type of interviews and follow-up that lead to success. Proven approaches help make the conversations during a community tour beneficial for potential residents and effective for presenting the community. Duration: 59 minutes

Fee: US $49

To view the recording, call the ICAA Office at 866-335-9777 or email info@icaa.cc

Make the most of reports from the ICAA/ProMatura Wellness Benchmarks

The reports are the key to analyzing your programs, championing wellness and building the program. Find out how to get the information you need to think about the program as a whole, and link to the community’s operational goals. Duration: 58 minutes

Fee: Complimentary

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10 Steps: Start using the ICAA/ProMatura Wellness Benchmarks

Jump start your participation in the benchmarking system by getting the inside story on the information you will collect, setting up the system and keeping it up to date. Duration: 61 minutes

Fee: Complimentary

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Introducing the ICAA/ProMatura Wellness Benchmarks

Learn how the ICAA/ProMatura Wellness Benchmarks give retirement communities that provide wellness services—lifestyle activities, fitness and recreation—an objective tool to relate the wellness program to business objectives. Duration: 51 minutes

Fee: Complimentary

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Insights from ICAA’s 2012 Wellness Industry Survey

Presented by Colin Milner, CEO, and Patricia Ryan, VP, International Council on Active Aging

The 2012 ICAA Wellness Industry Development Survey provides plenty of data for program planning and business planning. The survey focuses on lifestyle offerings, future plans for wellness facilities and programs, and defines the current offering in senior living, seniors/community centers and other locations serving older adults. Duration: 58 minutes

To view the recording, call the ICAA Office at 866-335-9777 or email info@icaa.cc

ICAA members: complimentary

Nonmembers: US $49

Improve memory and brain health by engaging the aging brain

Presented by Terry Eckmann, PhD, Professor, Minot State University

Is it possible to maintain-or improve-memory and overall cognitive skills as we age? To answer this question, you will briefly review the anatomy and physiology of the brain, then explore the current research that supports the impact of exercise on brain health. After examining the critical domains of a brain-healthy lifestyle, you'll learn how exercise affects the physiology of the brain. Building on that strong foundation, take away ideas on how you can translate the research into approaches to engage the aging brain. Duration: 58 minutes

To view the recording, call the ICAA Office at 866-335-9777 or email info@icaa.cc

Fee: US $49

Bridging the Gap from Land to Water

Presented by Kim Eichinger, Executive Fitness Director, Country Meadows Retirement Communities

Sponsored by HydroWorx

Do you use your swimming pool to full advantage? Are you frustrated that people who could benefit from pool activities are reluctant to get in the water? From creating a successful experience for first-time users to introducing new activities and tools into aquatics programs, you can help your population get excited about the pool. Whether you have your own pool or arrange for time in a community pool, you’ll hear plenty of ideas on overcoming barriers and diversifying programming. In addition, you’ll gather ideas for outreach so that your colleagues and customers become involved in bringing in new people.

Duration: 61 minutes

To view the recording, call the ICAA Office at 866-335-9777 or email info@icaa.cc

Fee: US $49

Healthy Aging Trends for 2012 and Beyond

Presented by Steve French, MBA, Managing Partner, Natural Marketing Institute (NMI)

Based on insights from a variety of Natural Marketing Institute proprietary consumer research studies, including NMI’s Healthy Aging/Boomer Database®, this webinar will explore the latest consumer and market trends relative to healthy aging. NMI’s trend spotter, Steve French, will explore a variety of multifaceted drivers of a healthy lifestyle, caregiving, healthcare, the role of technology, lifestyle and leisure activities, financial challenges, jobs and retirement and much more. Learn how Boomers and Matures will impact and drive the aging trends of today and how they will impact the market tomorrow.

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Fee $49.00