Workshops for Your Organization
Denise Scruggs, director of the Beard Center on Aging, conducts many workshops related to aging issues for various organizations. These include workshops on the following topics:
Adapting to Environments as We Age
Memory and Aging: Maintaining What We Have and Adapting to What We Lose
Sensory Changes in Aging
Sensitivity and Aging: Responding to Change in Your Aging Clients
Intergenerational Programs for Healthy Aging
Evaluating Programs for Elders
Housing Adaptations for the Aging
Validation Techniques for Working with the Cognitively Impaired
Relationship Success at Any Age
Grandparents Raising Grandchildren
Social and Psychological Realities of Aging
Conflict Resolution
Dealing with Dementia
Retirement Planning: An Overview
Preventing and Detecting Elder Abuse
Drug Misuse and Abuse Among the Elderly
Communicating with Your Doctor
Healthy Aging: Do's and Don’ts
Laughter Leads to Healthy Aging
Keeping Fit the Easy Way
Intellectual Disabilities and Aging
Reducing Restraint Use
If your organization would like a workshop on topics that were mentioned above, or any related topic, please contact the Beard Center on Aging for more information.
Phone: 434.544.8456
Fax: 434.544.8580
Email: scruggs@lynchburg.edu
A small fee charged for all workshops in order to make it possible for the Center to engage in new and existing outreach activities with the elderly population.
