GEC seminars are aimed at improving and expanding geriatric healthcare, particularly for low-income, multi-ethnic and underserved older adult population. We offer innovative and interactive seminars on a wide range of issues, health conditions and service delivery models to healthcare professionals, academic leaders, and others who offer services to older adults.

Topics for the day will be:

Overview on Aging, Entitlements and Financial Issues, Health Literacy, Effective Communciations/Sensory Changes with Aging, Mental Health and Aging, Hearing Aids workshop

Participants in this seminar will be able to:

• Identify some of the unique issues and challenges older people face.
• Identify the demographic imperative to learn basic principles of geriatrics.
• Recognize the 4 barrier domains to good communication with older adults: physical, cognitive, psychological, and socio-cultural.
• List techniques to use to break the barriers to communication with older adults.
• Tell how culture and health literacy affects health and end of life outcomes.
• Apply tools for effective communication across cultural barriers at end of life.
• Recall how cultural diversity may impede effective service delivery.
• Identify how the presence of even one geriatric syndrome can affect an older person’s ability to meet new medical challenges.
• Identify the most common behavioral health problems experienced by older adults.
• Identify clinical and psychosocial treatments which aid this recovery of older adults
  with behavioral health need.