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Positive Aging Resource Center Web Seminars

The Positive Aging Resource Center (PARC) in collaboration with the Harvard Partners Geriatric Education Center (HPGEC) and the American Society on Aging (ASA) offers a series of web-based courses for continuing education credit, to help you engage clients in care, improve practice, and implement sustainable service programs.

These courses are designed for a wide variety of health professionals who serve older adults including social workers, nurses, and direct service workers.

The current courses provided include:

Alzheimer’s Disease: Taking Control

Paul Raia, PhD, Director of Patient Care & Family Support, Alzheimer’s Association, Massachusetts Chapter
Link: http://www.asaging.org/webseminars/websem.cfm?EventID=11148

Mental Illness in Long Term Care: Solutions for the Care Team

Marc Agronin, MD, Director of Mental Health Services, Miami Jewish Home & Hospital for the Aged
Link: http://www.asaging.org/webseminars/websem.cfm?EventID=8125

Treating Late Life Mental Illness with Psychotherapy

Dr. Patricia A. Arean, UCSF
Dr. Dolores Gallagher-Thompson, Stanford University
Dr. Mark Hegel, Dartmouth University
Dr. Mark Miller, UPMC
Link: http://www.asaging.org/webseminars/websem.cfm?EventID=11576

Depression in the Elderly: Practical Problem-Solving Model for Non-Medical Providers

Maura Conry, Pharm D, MSW, LCSW, Pharmacy & Social Work: Private Practice; Clinical Coordinator, Shawnee Mission Medical Center, Kansas City, KS.
Link: http://www.asaging.org/webseminars/websem.cfm?EventID=7778

Service Models for Older Adults with Severe Mental Illness: Rehabilitation, Outreach, Residential Support, and Integrated Health Care

Stephen Bartels, MD, MS, Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Consultant for the New Freedom's Commission, Dartmouth Medical School.
Link: http://www.asaging.org/webseminars/websem.cfm?EventID=7778

Late Life Depression

Maria Llorente, MD, Miami VA Medical Center.
Link: http://www.asaging.org/webseminars/websem.cfm?EventID=7778

Signs and Symptoms of PTSD

Dean Krahn, M.D., M.S., Department of Veterans Affairs, Madison, WI
Link: http://www.asaging.org/webseminars/websem.cfm?EventID=7778

Pharmacy and Social Work Interprofessional Initiative (©1998): Improving Medication Safety in the Senior Population

Maura Conry, Pharm D, MSW, LCSW, Pharmacy & Social Work: Private Practice; Clinical Coordinator, Shawnee Mission Medical Center, Kansas City, KS
Link: http://www.asaging.org/webseminars/websem.cfm?EventID=8125

Get Connected: Linking Older People with Medication, Alcohol, and Mental Health Resources

Jennifer Solomon, MA, Program Analyst, Center for Substance Abuse Prevention, U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.
Link: http://www.asaging.org/webseminars/websem.cfm?EventID=8125

Integration of Mental Health with Primary Care

John McIntyre, MD, Vice President for Behavioral Health and Chair of the Department of Psychiatry, Unity Health System, Rochester, NY
Link: http://www.asaging.org/webseminars/websem.cfm?EventID=8125

On-demand seminars are available free of charge, with CEUs available for $15.

Live, interactive seminars are periodically available for a $35 charge per site, with CEUs available for $5.

Continuing education credits are available through ASA for social workers, nurses, and nursing home administrators.

The PARC web seminars can be viewed on the ASA website http://www.asaging.org/webseminars/index.cfm