Institute on Aging welcomes Lise Dyckman, MA, Executive Director of PlaneTree Library, as she delivers a training on skillfully evaluating health resources.

Deciding whether to believe the latest hot news about health matters isn't easy for professionals --- much less figuring out how to help clients who are worried by rumors and confused by conflicting claims.

Librarians constantly wrestle with the problems of finding trust-worthy and accurate sources for consumer health information, and with fact-checking and evaluating reports of medical research. In this program, we'll share the basic techniques in librarians' toolboxes for deciding whether to trust health claims, or trash them, even if you're not an expert on that subject. The resources covered include mental health as well as chronic diseases.

By the end of this course participants will be able to:

- identify at least two verified sources of health information to share with their clients

- use lateral searches and other fact-checkers' techniques to determine the accuracy of health claims and identify fake news

- implement at least two methods for seeking out evidence-based health information

Your Instructor: Lise M. Dyckman, MA MLIS CHIS, Executive Director, PlaneTree Health Library Answering questions, creating reference guides, and teaching people how to search for themselves has been the main focus of Lise’s work as a librarian. In a nearly 4-decades’ long career, she has worked in libraries that served hospitals and healthcare professionals, patients, healthcare policy-makers, students and faculty at several universities. Now as the Executive Director of PlaneTree Health Library, she curates online health information for the public. Among other degrees and qualifications, she is certified as a Consumer Health Information Specialist with the Medical Library Association.

About PlaneTree Health Library: San José's PlaneTree Health Library was founded in 1989, based on the then-radical idea that informed people make better patients and more savvy advocates for their own health, their families, and their communities. Over the years it has evolved from a walk-in library to a librarian-curated collection of online health information, available 24-7. While it is focused on the health concerns of people in the South Bay Area, those health issues are universal. The free, accurate, up-to-date, and evaluated resources selected by our librarians are available to everyone. PlaneTree Health Library's homepage is https://www.planetree-sv.org/

Date: Tuesday, March 23rd, 12:30-1:30 p.m. PDT

Place: online

Cost: No charge, but RESERVATIONS ARE REQUIRED.

This class will be appropriate for those in aging services, including: family therapists; social workers; nurses; elder-law practitioners; long-term care administrators; gerontologists, human resources professionals and others. But it will also be very helpful and of interest to the lay person. No previous knowledge of the content area is required.

Continuing Education

If you seek 1.0 professional Continuing Education Units, please note this in your reservation. There will be no charge for this.

Also note that BBS no longer delivers CEs. CAMFT does offer CEs to LCSWs.

For further information or cancellation (within 24 hours prior to event), in addition to questions, grievances, concerns, and special accommodations for disabilities, please contact Caitlin Morgan, Education Manager, Institute on Aging, at cmorgan@ioaging.org, or (415) 750-4114.

Continuing Education Information (1.0 Continuing Education Units): BRN; CAMFT (serves LCSWs/MFTs/LEPs/LPCCs); MCLE (Attorneys/Fiduciaries)

All Continuing Education certificates will be delivered digitally, within 10 working days of the event. After the program, an evaluation-test will be provided to all CE registrants, who must turn in their evaluation by email, in order to qualify for a CE certificate.

Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing (BRN), Provider # CEP13610, for 1.0 Contact Hours

CAMFT: Institute on Aging is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for this program. IOA maintains responsibility for the course and its content. Course meets the qualifications for 1.0 hours of continuing education credit for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and/or LEPs. CAMFT provider number is #135377.

State Bar of California (MCLE) : Course meets the qualifications for 1.0 hours of continuing education credit for Attorneys & Licensed Fiduciaries (Provider #13264).