Pathways for Aging

Pathways for Aging has historically provided therapy, counseling, and geriatric care management for older adults, yet we also offer more preventative programs to promote emotional health and positive aging. Our social workers are able to offer community presentations and seminars on the following topics for older adults, caregivers, agency staff, family members, or a combination of audiences on site at your location:

• Promoting Mental Health: discusses why having good mental health helps people lead better lives and age positively; offers strategies to avoid and cope with stress, depression, anxiety, and other mental health issues

• Age as an Asset: debunking stereotypes and myths about aging, especially in the media, and learning to recognize wisdom and experiences as the gift of later adulthood

• Spirituality in Later Life: how faith, spirituality, and/or meditative practices can be used to promote healthy aging and positive mental health

• Using Reminiscence and Life Review: how reflecting on our lives, the struggles and successes, can help older adults live well and excel in their lives today

• Caregiver Issues: how to avoid severe stress and burnout when you are taking care of others, the issues that you should be aware of when caring for an older loved with physical needs and/or memory loss, what you can do for them as a caregiver, and what you should be concerned about for yourself as a caregiver

• End-of-Life Decision-making & Medical Ethics: gives an overview of bioethics and its history, how it relates to end of life decision making, how to identify ethical issues at end of life, making difficult treatment such as withholding and withdrawing treatment, quality of life concerns, euthanasia, assessing decisional capacity, surrogate decision making, and the role of religion and culture

We are also able to offer presentations on other topics specifically for your unique organization, event or population. Below is a list of some past seminars and presentations our social workers have given.

If you are interested in scheduling a presentation or seminar or would like to discuss other presentation topics, please contact Pathways for Aging by emailing contactus@pathwaysforaging.com or by calling 314.361.3530.

Seminars and community education presentations in March and April 2010 include:

• Coping Strategies with Dementia -  March 4, 2010 at Parc Provance in Creve Coeur, MO, Geriatric Care Managers Midwest Chapter
• Mothers, Daughters and Care-giving…When the Tables Turn - March 9, 2010 at Brooking Park, Social Workers in Long Term Care
• Social Work Looking Forward: The Next Ten Years - March 18, 2010 at St. Louis University Il Monestero, Tri-School Event for Master of Social Work students from St. Louis University, Washington University and University of Missouri-St. Louis
• Mothers, Daughters and Care-giving…When the Tables Turn - April 10, 2010 at Celebrating Women: Reinventing Ourselves After 50 at the J.C. Penny Conference Center on the University of Missouri-St. Louis Campus
  

Some past seminars and community education presentations include:

• Planning for & Accessing Missouri Medicaid and Medicare - February 19, 2010 at Tower Grove Manor, SAGE: Services & Advocacy for GLBT Elders Cafe Luncheon
• Feeling Good About Aging - February 11, 2010 at the Sarah Community: Anna House Skilled Nursing Facility for residents and their families
• Mothers, Daughters and Care-giving…When the Tables Turn - January 25, 2010, NASW Missouri Webinar, social workers
• Navigating the Emotional Mindfields of Caregiving - January 23, 2010 at the Kirkwood Baptist Church, older adults & their families
• Using Reminiscence and Life Review - November 18, 2009 at the First Presbyterian Church of Kirkwood, Senior Group
• Coping with Caregiver Stress and Promoting Positive Mental Health - October 21, 2009 for SAGE Metro St. Louis (SAGE: Services & Advocacy for GLBT Elders)
• Age as an Asset - September 16, 2009 at the First Presbyterian Church of Kirkwood, Senior GroupDecisions at End of Life - Who Decides? - February 6, 2009 in St. Louis, MO & April 17, 2009 in Columbia, MO, sponsored by NASW - Missouri Chapter
• End-of-Life: Preparing for a Complex Future - March 10, 2009 at Brooking Park, Social Workers in Long Term Care
• Feeling Good………About Aging - March 7, 2009 at Celebrating Women: Reinventing Ourselves After 50 at UMSL Campus
• Washing Away the Winter Blues - January 24, 2009 at Autumn View Gardens, Creve Coeur, MO