MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA OF THE MIDSOUTH


The Heart of Care

Mental Health America of the MidSouth's Annual Older Adult Behavioral Health Conference
2025

Live Webinar

Tuesday | May 6, 2025 
9:00 AM - 4:30 PM CT
6 FREE CEs*

*Six Continuing Education Credits Pending for Professionals:
Social Workers (NASW, TN Chapter), Counselors (NBCC)  Assisted Living Administrators.





 


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Overview

At the heart of providing older adult mental health care lies your connection, compassion, and resilience. This conference is designed to empower caregivers, professionals, advocates, and community members with valuable insights into the behavioral health care needs of older adults and their caregivers. Join experts in the field as they explore essential topics, including ethical communication strategies to support the caregiver, evidence-based best practices for caregiving, end-of-life planning, and the importance of maintaining the caregiver’s emotional and physical well-being. Gain practical tools, expert guidance, and a renewed sense of purpose in your caregiving journey, because YOU are the vital heart of care. 

#1 Enhancing Ethical Communication to Support Caregiver Outcomes

Equip caregivers with ethical and compassionate communication strategies to navigate the complexities of older adult care while fostering meaningful connections and maintaining self-care and wellbeing. 

#2 Empowering Caregivers in Life Transitions

Reframe end-of-life planning as an opportunity for empowerment, ensuring families have those crucial conversations to be prepared, supported, and confident in making healthy decisions about the future with evidence-based information. 

#3 Balancing Care Across Generations

Provide practical strategies and emotional support to help the “sandwich generation” caregivers navigate the unique challenges of providing care for aging loved ones and raising children and adolescents. 

Our Continuing Education Sponsors

#ThankYou

nashvillehealth

Gretchen Funk, MSW

Best Practices in Caregiving: Self-Care

  • Understand the importance of self-care for caregivers. 
  • Identify a range of behaviors and practices which support health and wellbeing. 
  • Identify resources available to assist caregiver's and their well-being. 
Mental health america of the midsouth

Lynn Wood, Certified Dementia Specialist

Care Smarter, Not Harder: Personalizing a Care Plan

  • Learn the importance of incorporating the care receiver’s physical, emotional, and social needs into a care plan.
  • Explore why standardized care plans may not effectively meet individual needs.
  • Gain practical tools to create flexible, person-centered care plans that honor each individual’s unique preferences and well-being.
Johnson McGinnis Elder Care Law & Estate Planning

Katlyn Green, Elder Care Law

Roles and Real Tools for End-of-Life Care

  • Identify Roles of a Care Team including family, unpaid caregivers, and professionals. 
  • Consider the risks of Anticipatory Grief for caregiver coping and wellness. 
  • Identify the myths that impact decision making and behavior. 
Positive approach to care

Dr. Beth Nolan, Ph.D.

Ethical Communication Strategies

  • Discuss verbal and nonverbal communication techniques to improve interactions.
  • Describe the value of knowing and individual and their history in effective communication.
  • Demonstrate validation and empathetic communication techniques.
  • Discuss effective verbal and nonverbal communication techniques to improve interactions with people living with dementia.
agewell

Tiffany Cloud-Mann, M.Ed.

Navigating Caregiver Resources for Aging Adults

  • Participants will be able to identify the conditions of the “sandwich generation” caregiver. 
  • Participants will be able to list multiple resources to assist caregivers. 
  • Participants will be able to describe how an “eldercare coach” is a resource for caregivers.  
vanderbilt university school of nursing

Dr. Feylyn Lewis, Ph.D.

Supporting Caregivers: The Sandwich Generation

  • Attendees will receive evidence-based strategies for supporting relationship dynamics between older adults and Sandwich Generation Caregivers.  
  • Attendees will receive evidence-based strategies for supporting relationship dynamics between older adults and Sandwich Generation Caregivers.  
  • Attendees will learn of the behavioral health changes that they can anticipate with aging loved ones and how to support both caregivers and aging loved one’s mental health.