Conversations About Caregiving

We’re gathering virtually for four one-hour workshops to discuss specific situations family caregivers experience. We’ll convene a panel of family caregivers and encourage an interactive discussion with health care professionals.

We are approved to provide 1 CEU for each workshop. Registration for the event is free. The cost to receive 1 CEU after attending each workhop is $20. ** If you attend all 4 events, you'll receive 4 CEUs and only pay $20 for all 4 CEUs. ** (Scroll down for details.)

Agenda

Each workshop begins at 1 p.m. ET (Noon CT, 10 a.m. PT).

• April 25: The Path to the Diagnosis: The path to the correct diagnosis can last years. Our panelists will share their experiences, their challenges and their ideas to help others struggling to find the correct diagnosis for a family member.
• May 2: The Emergency Beginning to Caregiving. When caregiving begins because of a family member’s health care crisis, life changes in an instant. Panelists will share how they coped and how health care professionals can better support family caregivers who begin caring in an instant.
• May 9: The Stuffed Calendar. When we care for a family member with a chronic illness, we manage multiple appointments with specialists and service providers. The calendar becomes our third full-time job after our day job and our caregiving responsibilities. How do we juggle so many appointments. How can health care professionals better support us?
• May 16: Our Self-Care. Others tell us all the time: You can to take care of yourself. During caregiving, that’s easier said than done. Our panelists will discuss their challenges for finding time for self-care and how our communities and service providers can better support us so we can take care of ourselves.

Learning Objectives

1. To share the reality of a personal caregiving experience to facilitate a conversation about how health care professionals can better support family caregivers
2. To discuss the challenges family caregivers face within the health care system to health care professionals can consider simple improvements they can make within their own process
3. To equip attendees with coping strategies they can share with the family caregivers they serve
4. To help health care professionals who also care for family members better understand how they can meet their own needs
5. To share ideas that could improve the processes within the health care system which add stress and overwhelm to the personal caregiving experience

CEUs

We are approved to provide 1 CEU for each workshop.

** If you attend all 4 events, you'll receive 4 CEUs and only pay $20 for all 4 CEUs. **

If you attend less than 4 events, you'll pay $20 for each CEU. For instance, if you attend 3 events in our series, you’ll receive 3 CEUs for a total cost of $60.

1 CEU

Our program is approved to provide 1 CEU for each workshop. (Scroll down for details about professionals who can receive CEUs.)

The cost to receive 1 CEU is $20. You'll pay for your CEU after our event ends and receive your CEU certificate 12 business days after our workshop.

** If you attend all 4 events, you'll receive 4 CEUs and only pay $20 for all 4 CEUs. **

If you attend less than 4 events, you'll pay $20 for each CEU. For instance, if you attend 3 events in our series, you’ll receive 3 CEUs for a total cost of $60.

You'll receive information on how to pay for and receive your CEU certificate during and at the close of our event.

CEU Details

We’ve been approved to provide 1 continuing education hour per workshop for the list of professionals, below. Continuing education hours are provided by the Continuing Education Institute of Illinois.

--Certified Dementia Practitioner®: We can provide 1 continuing education credit per workshop for Certified Dementia Practitioners® in all 50 states.

--Certified Senior Advisor®: We can provide 1 continuing education credit per workshop for Certified Senior Advisors® in all 50 states.

--Nurses: We can provide 1 continuing education credit per workshop for nurses in all 50 states.

--Professional Coaches: Professional coaches can earn 1 hour per workshop for resource development in all 50 states.

We also can provide 1 CEU per workshop for the following Illinois professions:

Counselor-Professional/Clinical

Dental Hygienist

Dietitian/Nutritionist

Marriage and Family Counselor

Nursing Home Administrator

Occupational Therapist

Physician

Psychologist

Physical Therapist

Respiratory Therapist

Social Worker

We also are approved to provide CEUs for health care professionals throughout the United States. You can check the map created by our CEU provider, Continuing Education Institute of Illinois, to see if we can provide CEUs for your profession in your state. (Scroll down the page to see the map.)