About our Community Education Presentations
Pathways for Aging offers 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.
Join us at the Prime Time Expo as Jeannie Krause-Taylor gives advice to Baby Boomers on how to Feel Good About Aging: Starting a new career after age 50, Keeping you Brain Young, Dispelling aging myths, and more! The Prime Time Expo is on Sunday, October 30 from 11 AM to 3 PM at the Jewish Community Center’s Staenberg Family Complex in Creve Coeur. Targeted to Baby Boomers, their parents, senior adults and families, the Primetime Expo is a resource, information gathering, networking and social fair for improving the quality of life and retirement. Form more informaion, visit: http://www.stljewishlight.com/features/business/article_8b3d5152-ef62-11e0-8238-001cc4c002e0.html
What is Happening to my Parents? Tips & Advice for Adult Children on identifying specific issues, communication techniques, support on “what to do next,” and tools for how to care for your aging loved ones.
Age as an Asset debunks stereotypes and myths about aging, especially in the media, and helps older adults recognize their wisdom and experience as the gift of later adulthood.
Improving Emotional Well-Being & Mental Health discusses why having good mental health helps people lead better lives and age positively. This presentation offers strategies to avoid and cope with stress, depression, anxiety, and other mental health issues.
Caregiver Issues discusses how to avoid severe stress and burnout when you are taking care of others by examining the issues you should be aware of when caring for an older loved one. We discuss what you can do for them as a caregiver, and what you should be concerned about for yourself to avoid burnout.
Using Reminiscence & Life Review provides tools for reflecting on our lives, including struggles and successes, to help older adults live well and excel in their lives today. 
Strengthening your Mother-Daughter Bond No relationship seems to be more complex or challenged that that of an aging Mother and her Adult Daughter. This presentation offers tips for stress management, creating support systems, and practical techniques for developing insight, empathy and respect for each other.
End-of-Life Decision-Making & Medical Ethics gives an overview of bioethics and how it relates to end of life decision making, making difficult decisions such as withholding and withdrawing treatment, quality of life concerns, euthanasia, assessing decisional capacity, surrogate decision making, and the role of religion and culture.
Personalized Presentations 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.
Some past seminars and community education presentations include:
- Recipes to Strengthen & Sweeten Your Mother-Daughter Bond - July 31 at Sunrise Assisted Living on Clayton Road in Richmond Heights.
- Aging as an Asset; Feeling Good About Aging - July 23 at St. Charles Community College
- When Mom Starts Aging: A Proven Recipe to Strengthen and Sweeten your Mother-Daughter Bond - June 15 at Sunrise Assisted Living on Clayton Road for the public
- Mental Health Services for Older Adults - April 6, 2010 at Breakthrough Coalition for older adult social services at the Maryland Heights Community Center
- 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
- 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 - March 9, 2010 at Brooking Park, Social Workers in Long Term Care
- Coping Strategies with Dementia - March 4, 2010 at Parc Provance in Creve Coeur, MO, Geriatric Care Managers Midwest Chapter
- 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
