For Home Care Aides: Megan leads short courses for home care aides who wish to enhance their skills and abilities to make work less challenging and more rewarding when helping individuals with medical conditions that impact mobility, communication and / or memory (for example, cancer, Parkinson’s, ALS, dementia). Make life more enjoyable, prevent falls, minimize hospitalizations, and prevent caregiver injury and burnout. Assisted living facilities and private duty agencies may offer this education to their staff, and Megan can accommodate schedules and special interests.

Learn to create, assess and revise your organization’s communications using specialized tools to improve safety, adherence and overall health. Using a universal design approach in our health communications, we can educate and empower individuals with valuable self-management practices. Gain insight into the ways everyday health information can be misunderstood despite factors of age, education and profession. Mitigate risk and maximize health for your residents and patients.

Increase knowledge and awareness of significant risks impacting a vulnerable and growing elder population. Learn how psychosocial, physiological and socioeconomic factors, along with healthcare system accessibility, can actually contribute to chronic illness, caregiver burnout, substance misuse, mental illness and increasing care costs. Learn how OT helps to mitigate risks and improve outcomes for homebound elders wanting to age in place.

Learn how coordinated care practices along the continuum and across disciplines can benefit your organization and those who access your services. Identify challenges such as unconscious biases, structural limitations or cultural incompetence. A past workshop introduced mechanisms to support home health providers in bridging the physical and behavioral health systems of care for their clients.