For Professionals

Intimacy Needs and Behaviors of the Elderly
Care-giving staff in assisted living and skilled nursing facilities will benefit from this half- or full-day workshop on the diverse sexual backgrounds, experiences and expectations of aging, aged and elderly populations. Topics covered include physical and medical conditions of aging that affect sexual functioning as well as the sexual challenges faced by individuals in this phase of the life cycle.
Facilitator: Karen Hicks, PhD.

Keynote speeches on Intimacy, Sexuality and Aging
Conference organizers and attendees will benefit from targeted keynote addresses by one of America’s foremost sexuality educators.
Speaker: Peggy Brick, MEd, CSE

How to Talk about Sex Without Blushing
Increased comfort with language related to sexuality can improve health care professionals’ communication with patients and their loved ones. Facilitator: Melanie Davis, EdD, CSE

CEU Programs for Nurses and Staff
Sexuality and sexual rights are important issues for anyone working with seniors in long-term and assisted living environments. Programs can be customized to your unique needs, with CEUs available for registered nurses. Facilitator: Carole Adamsbaum, RN, ACSE

SexTalk Workshop: Skills for Communicating with Clients about Sexual Concerns
In this highly experiential workshop, participants strengthen the skills of communication with their clients by deepening their understanding of their own responses to sexual issues, examining the process of psycho-sexual development, exploring and expanding knowledge of sexual function and dysfunction, and practicing approaches to interactions which will facilitate comfort and communication for both them and their clients. Facilitated by Joan Garrity.

Intimacy/Sexuality/Personal Sensitive “Gap Analysis” for Facility Administration
Gap analysis identifies the gap between what residents say they want and need from the staff around sensitive topics and staff attitudes, values, beliefs, and behavior. Staff gain comfort with sensitive topics, understand needs of residents, gain knowledge to address situations, and understand personal and institutional values and procedures. Facilitated by Katherine Forsythe, MSW

Aging and Sexuality Curriculum Implementation Training
Training for professionals on how to use lessons from the groundbreaking resource Older, Wiser, Sexually Smarter. Facilitated by Bill Taverner, MA.

The Heart Has No Wrinkles: Sexuality and Intimacy in Assisted Living and Nursing Homes
This customized workshop prepares professionals to use a positive approach in dealing with residents’ sexual needs and rights. The content is tailored to the unique concerns of individual agencies.
Facilitator: Peggy Brick, MEd, CSE

The Lion’s Way to Stress Reduction
In one hour, professionals can learn practical, tension relieving techniques that will help them “pounce when it counts” for maximum efficiency in high-pressure environments.
Facilitator: Melanie Davis, EdD, CSE

HIV with Love and Wrinkles
People with HIV/AIDS are now living into their 50s and 60s, and those over fifty constitute one of the fastest growing populations of individuals becoming newly infected with the virus. The material presented in either a keynote or workshop format will help professionals caring for the older population to better understand the impact of HIV on their clients, and increase their skills in giving HIV results and supporting older clients to live well with the virus. Facilitated by Joan Garrity.

Your Staff and the Sexuality of Your Senior Clients
This customized program will educate care staff the sexuality of aging individuals. Continuing Education credit is available for this workshop.
Facilitator: Carole Adamsbaum, RN, MA, CSE

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