Speakers Bureau
Available Speakers
Navigating the Elder Care maze - Dave Hasty, Elder Care coordinator at the Elder Law practice of David L. McGuffey, LLC, provides tips and tool to empower adult children to respond with confidence when elderly parents need their help. Topics of discussion include home care and housing options, costs and coverage, getting the right help, family dynamics, long distance care giving and strategies for helping parents accept assistance.
Medicare Basics - Dr. Paige Joiner draws on her years of experience in the insurance industry to bring you a purely educational look at Medicare – What is it/ How does it work? What type of plan is best for me? She will cover the 4 parts of Medicare (A,B,C and D), the history of Medicare, types of options for Medicare beneficiaries and Low Income Subsidies and special needs plans.
Rabbi Scott Saulson, PhD, ordained in 1976, has more than thirty years of professional pastoral experience and has been established in Atlanta, together with his family, since 1991. He is certified as a Mediator, with specialties in Family Mediation and in Caregiving Mediation. Currently, Rabbi Saulson serves on the boards of Sr. Connections and Ageless, Inc., is registered as a Caregiving Expert, and facilitates a support group for the Alzheimer's Assoc. of Georgia. As a private consultant, Rabbi Saulson provides support, counsel, and mediation for families seeking to lay the groundwork for effective elder care. His wife, Dr. Diane Wulfsohn, is a practicing Clinical Psychologist.
Presentations by Rabbi Saulson include:
Effective Eldercare: Laying the Groundwork
Our community is blessed with a host of providers of resources to families with elder care concerns. Effectively tapping into these resources or relying on one's own depends on how well the family has laid its internal groundwork with respect, integrity, and compassion. This seminar will focus on proven ways to lay that groundwork, and will draw on sacred texts to see how this process plays out. The seminar will also provide opportunity for participants to share their caregiving wisdom and raise questions.
Shaping a Legacy of Character
A workshop devoted to exploring and sketching Ethical Wills. Ethical Wills flourished in usage and style in medieval Jewish communities. They sought to convey from one generation to the next behaviors and outlooks which ground one’s character for the good. As such, ethical wills are in keeping with all traditions and cultures. Participants will be guided in exploring their spiritual and ethical grounding as well as expressing admonitions of character to their heirs.
Triff Phillips of Home Care Assistance--presents Maintain your Brain for the Alzheimer’s Assoc.
Maintain Your Brain
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We now know that there are things we can do to keep our brain healthier as we age – and these steps might reduce our risk for Alzheimer’s.
D.K. Lippy - is a foremost commercial general contractor with a focus on serving the construction needs of aging adults.
Home for a Lifetime addresses what we need to age in place – to remain in our own homes as we grow older while maintaining independence and quality of life.
Rita Zadoff - Housemate Match, a nationally recognized home sharing program that links mature adult homeowners who have extra room in their homes with adults seeking a roommate, is available free of charge; Rita will address how it works and the programs available.
Lee Mohler, CSA has many years of experience helping seniors and their families make decisions about living arrangement. Her workshop “AGING ISSUES IN THE FAMILY: RESOLVE BY CHOICE, NOT CRISIS” includes such topics as:
Jim McDonald—A boomer himself, Jim has thirty years of senior management experience in consumer brand marketing and has spent his career marketing to his peers. Most recently, Jim has consulted with home builders about the need for aging-in-place design and construction.
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Presentations for Small and Medium Size Companies providing Aging-in-Place Products and Services
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Presentations for Home Builders, Home Remodelers and Aging Boomers (“Boomsters”)
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Presentations for Personal Growth & Success
(Do YOU have a Positive Brand Image?)
Harry Vardis—directs the Center for Business Inovation and Creativity/Coles College of Business at Kennesaw State University in Atlanta. His presentations reflect his passion for building creativity on demand environments.
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Neurobics: Exercises that keep your Brain Acting Young Everyday
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Ride the Wave! An entertaining and educational journey on the ways we can use our creative power to bring innovation to our personal lives
And other topics on Creative Thinking
