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Mather LifeWays Institute on Aging Webinars

Sept	Wellness Webinar	1:00-2:00 p.m. (CT)
	Sept 15 Workforce Wellness: Helping Employees Become Healthy, "Wellthy", and Wise (available individually or as part of a series of five webinars)

Sept/Oct	LEAP for Senior Living	1:00-2:00 p.m. (CT)
	Sept 23 Fostering Collaboration in a Culturally Diverse Workplace
	Sept 30 Eliminating Communication Barriers in the Workplace
	Oct 7 Leading/Mentoring Effective Cross-Functional Teams

Oct	Essentials of Culture Change (LEAP 101)	11:00 a.m. - Noon (CT)
	Oct 5 Person-Directed Care
	Oct 12 Primary/Consistent Assignments
	Oct 19 Peer Mentoring

	Emergency Preparedness (PREPARE)	11:00 a.m.–Noon (CT)
	Oct 6 Getting Ready
	Oct 13 Weathering the Storm
	Oct 20 Putting Your Community Back Together

	SAFE-TI Falls Reduction	11:00 a.m. - Noon (CT)
	Oct 7 Prone to Falls
	Oct 14 Tools and Assessments
	Oct 21 Tracking and Evaluating Outcomes

	Wellness Webinar	1:00-2:00 p.m. (CT)
	Oct 20 Evaluation & Assessment: Your GPS on the Road to Whole-Person Wellness (available individually or as part of a series of five webinars)

Nov	LEAP for Senior Living	11:00 a.m. - Noon (CT)
	Nov 3 Fostering Collaboration in a Culturally Diverse Workplace
	Nov 10 Eliminating Communication Barriers in the Workplace
	Nov 17 Leading/Mentoring Effective Cross- Functional Teams
Nov/Dec	Emergency Preparedness (PREPARE)	11:00 a.m. - Noon (CT)
	Nov 30 Getting Ready
	Dec 7 Weathering the Storm
	Dec 14 Putting Your Community Back Together

Essentials of Culture Change (LEAP 101)

(3 part webinar series)
3 session series- $250 per organization
Individual webinar- $95 per organization

Person-Directed Care
This webinar explores the basics of person-directed relationships. Specific strategies for entering into relationships with both residents and care team members are discussed and experienced through the exploration of "real life" case scenarios. The key components include:

Knowing the person and treating each resident as an individual
Valuing and empowering the caregiver as the most important team member
Building choice, control, and hope into each interaction of the day
Supporting and encouraging relationships among residents, their families, and staff

Continuing Education: 1 contact hour for NHAs and SWs

Primary/Consistent Assignments
The second component of LEAP 101 is Primary/Consistent Assignments. This webinar looks at how the consistent assignments approach to providing care honors the resident and the direct-care staff person. The key components include:

Defining consistent relationships
Implementing the Consistent Assignments approach

Creating a task force to begin the process
Determining the current state of staff assignments
Agreeing on the methodology for creating consistent assignments

Continuing Education: 1 contact hour for NHAs and SWs

Peer Mentoring
Key strategies to successfully acclimate new staff to the organization and onto the care team are explored in the Peer Mentoring Program webinar. In addition, materials and implementation tactics for ongoing development and evaluation of LTC staff are provided. The key components include:

Establishing the new role of Mentorship Program Coordinator
Developing the role of the peer mentor
Partnering new staff with an experienced Peer Mentor
Evaluating the Peer Mentoring Program as part of the organization's Quality Improvement Program

Continuing Education: 1 contact hour for NHAs and SWs

LEAP for Senior Living

(3 part webinar series)
3 session series - $250 per organization
Individual webinar - $95 per organization

LEAP for Senior Living is a unique interdisciplinary approach that empowers staff to partner with residents in creating a person-directed culture. Webinars focus on creating cultural diversity and cultural sensitivity in the workplace, developing strategies for effective communication across work teams, and using teamwork and mentoring to provide quality service to residents.

Fostering Collaboration in a Culturally Diverse Workplace

Greater understanding of cultural/ethnic diversity leads to greater collaboration and improved cultural sensitivity with residents and among staff. It decreases conflict and improves morale, teamwork, and staff retention. The key components include:

Exploring the cultural/ethnic demographics of the older population in America
Increasing cultural sensitivity/cultural competence
Reducing the frustration that results from not understanding different cultural perspectives
Evaluating levels of cultural sensitivity/cultural competence within our own organizations.

Continuing Education: 1 contact hour for NHAs and SWs

Eliminating Communication Barriers in Senior Living

Effective communication fosters respect across an organization and promotes effective teamwork. Communication barriers can include cross-cultural, cross-generational, and cross-occupational communication. The key components include:

Examining the precepts of effective verbal and non-verbal communications
Communicating across ethnic, generational, and occupational groups

Continuing Education: 1 contact hour for NHAs and SWs

Leading/Mentoring Effective Cross-Functional Teams

Good leadership and mentoring are key to building the strong, effective teams essential to providing quality service to residents. The key components include:

Developing effective cross-functional teams
Improving understanding of responsibilities of coworkers both within and outside their departments
Improving the way employees work together to achieve results

Continuing Education: 1 contact hour for NHAs and SWs

EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS

(3 part webinar series)
3 session series - $250 per organization
Individual webinar - $95 per organization

Natural and man-made disasters directly impact senior residences and long-term care communities in a variety of ways. This 3-part webinar series is designed to equip senior living and long-term care professionals with the core competencies of preparing your community's disaster plan, properly implementing your plan and returning your community to normalcy after the disaster.

Getting Ready
This webinar explores what needs to be done in to prepare your senior living or long-term care community to respond to any natural or man-made disaster or emergency. The key components include:

Key elements of effective disaster preparedness
Preparing your staff and residents for a disaster or emergency
Developing a comprehensive disaster preparedness plan that focuses on the "all-hazards" approach to surveillance, response, mitigation and recovery

Continuing Education: 1 contact hour for NHAs and SWs

Weathering the Storm
In a time of a disaster or emergency, properly implementing your disaster plan is key to weathering the storm. This webinar will explore the steps necessary to implement your plan. The key components include:

Executing the Incident Command System
Sheltering in place
Implementing an evacuation

Continuing Education: 1 contact hour for NHAs and SWs

Putting Your Community Back Together
Your community has weathered the storm; now it is time to return your community back to normalcy. The key components include:

Providing support and/or interventions to ease the trauma that your residents and staff experienced during the disaster or emergency
Evaluating the lessons learned
Updating your disaster plan based on what you learned

Continuing Education: 1 contact hour for NHAs and SWs

WELLNESS

(5 part webinar series)
Sponsored by
Individual webinar - $49 per connection

Who should attend: Health ,fitness, and wellness professionals; activity coordinators and program planners; health education specialists, executive directors and senior center managers; nursing directors, nurses, certified nursing assistants, and nursing home administrators; social workers; human resource professionals

Moving Beyond the Physical Dimension: Creating Multi-Dimensional Experiences
Organizations are constantly trying to find ways to engage older adults and staff in new and different ways. In this webinar, participants will learn new and innovative ways to “get individual” with older adults and staff to offer a personal approach to multi-dimensional experiences that enhance well-being. Participants will be exposed to techniques to engage their stakeholder groups in various ways using stage of change identification, language architecture, and mass customization strategies.

Participants in this wellness webinar will be able to:

Describe what it means to "get individual" with residents, customers, and staff by being able to recognize and find ways to develop the skills, strengths, and passions for each person
Outline the stages of behavior change and use the techniques associated with each stage to tailor communication styles to reach different targeted groups
Identify and give examples of mass customization techniques that will enable them to reach multiple groups of individuals in unique ways
Express the value of a comprehensive approach to providing multi-dimensional wellness opportunities and experiences and be able to identify outcomes and measures for success

This webinar has been approved for the following Continuing Education Credits: Activity Professionals (NCCAP), Health Educators (NCHEC - Category I), Nursing Home Administrators (NAB), and Nurses (Rush University/INA)

This webinar has been submitted for review for Continuing Education Credits for Human Resource Professionals (HRCI)

Workforce Wellness: Helping Employees Become Healthy, "Wellthy", and Wise
Whether the motivation is attracting the best talent, keeping high performers productive, lowering healthcare costs, or improving staff morale and satisfaction, employers increasingly depend upon staff wellness programs for solutions to key organizational challenges. This session will focus on ways to initiate an employee wellness program and how to build on early successes with strategies to make it comprehensive yet customized in order to help staff reach and maintain optimal well-being.

Participants in this wellness webinar will be able to:

Outline specific strategies to assess and address employee and organizational wellness needs and interests
Identify methods to personalize staff wellness offerings and avoid the one-size-fits-all trap
Recognize innovative and practical program ideas that have been utilized with diverse staff populations across many settings

This webinar has been approved for the following Continuing Education Credits:

Activity Professionals (NCCAP), Nursing Home Administrators (NAB), and Nurses (Rush University/INA)

This webinar has been submitted for review for Continuing Education Credits for Health Educators (NCHEC - Category I) and Human Resource Professionals (HRCI)

Evaluation & Assessment: Your GPS on the Road to Whole-Person Wellness

Program evaluation represents one of the most important aspects of any wellness initiative, yet many organizations struggle with the “what” and “how” of such evaluation. The good news is that you don’t have to reinvent the wheel, as many organizations have already started down the path of wellness evaluation. This session will focus on the types of wellness evaluation methods available and their uses, findings from Continuing Care Retirement Communities throughout the U.S., and an example of a new, comprehensive assessment process based on whole-person wellness principles.

Participants in this wellness webinar will be able to:

Identify methods of evaluating specific wellness programs, services, and opportunities, and understand how to improve upon these methods
Describe the types of evaluation methods used by Continuing Care Retirement Communities (CCRCs) from across the U.S., including CCRCs identified as leaders in the area of wellness
Give examples of ways to use the findings from a new assessment process to empower: (1) residents and staff to engage in behaviors that can improve their well-being across the six dimensions of wellness and (2) senior living communities to make changes that will move their organization further down the path towards a Culture of Wellness

This webinar has been approved for the following Continuing Education Credits:

Activity Professionals (NCCAP), Nursing Home Administrators (NAB), and Nurses (Rush University/INA)

This webinar has been submitted for review for Continuing Education Credits for Health Educators (NCHEC - Category I) and Human Resource Professionals (HRCI)

For more information about webinars, contact Theresa Sangram at

(847) 492.6790 or email tsangram@matherlifeways.com

SAFE-TI FALLS REDUCTION PROGRAM

(3 part webinar series)
3 session series - $250 per organization
Individual webinar - $95 per organization

Falls are the foremost safety issue facing adults age 65 and older and the leading cause of injury-related deaths. No matter their living situation, older adults are at risk for falls and associated injuries.

Studies show that the most effective falls reduction programs are those that are proactive in educating older adults on their falls risk factors and providing practical interventions to address those risks. SAFE-TI: A Falls Reduction Program developed by Mather LifeWays Institute on Aging and based on research and evidence is a comprehensive falls reduction program using Specific Assessment of Falls and Effective Therapeutic Interventions (SAFE-TI).

The program provides the knowledge and tools needed to implement a comprehensive approach to falls reduction in the home or in senior living communities.

Prone to Falls

This webinar provides specific information on why older adults are prone to or at-risk for falling. Factors that increase older adults risk for falling are discussed including: age-related changes in structure and function, disease processes, and medications.

Continuing Education: 1 contact hour for NHAs and SWs

Tools and Assessments

This webinar introduces participants to the SAFE-TI Program toolkit components with a focus on increasing awareness of the most common falls risk factors and individualized falls reduction interventions. Participants will learn how to use the risk assessment tool, other tools in the toolkit (e.g., the assessment questionnaire with scoring, home safety checklist, risk factor intervention charts), and how to plan fallsl reduction strategies using the Fals Reduction Flow Chart.

Continuing Education: 1 contact hour for NHAs and SWs

Tracking and Evaluating Outcomes

Key to evaluating the success of a falls reduction program is an analysis of fall events and associated injuries. This webinar outlines the evaluation process of a falls reduction program including: using various methods for tracking fall incidents; applying Root Cause Analysis to examine serious falls related injuries; and developing a multidisciplinary falls safety committee for senior living communities.

Continuing Education: 1 contact hour for NHAs and SWs