Webinar: Hearing Help for Seniors: Your Role as a Community Partner During COVID-19 * July 30th

Webinar: Hearing Help for Seniors: Your Role as a Community Partner During COVID-19 * July 30th

Hearing Help for Seniors: Your Role as a Community Partner During COVID-19 Webinar

July 30th * 11:00 a.m. – Noon (Pacific)

Objectives: After attending this session participants will learn ways to facilitate communication and reduce social isolation:

 1) The World Health Organization’s new guidelines for Integrated Care for Older People and how you can contribute to this mission.

 2) How healthcare professionals, administrators, and staff can positively impact the lives of seniors by supporting hearing health and communication. 

 3) How to enhance the communication abilities of seniors with low cost and high tech options.

Guest Speaker: Dr. Kelly Tremblay PhD FAAA 

  • Retired Professor and Audiologist
  • Founder of Lend an Ear, Consulting
  • Contributor to the WHO’s World Report on Ageing and Health and Co-author of the WHO’s new guidelines on Integrated Care for Older People.  

Dr. Tremblay worked as a tenured Professor of Neuroscience and Audiology at the University of Washington for more than 20 years, where she held the position as the Director of the Brain and Behavior Laboratory. She’s also a contributor to The World Health Organization “World Report on Ageing and Health” published in 2015 and “Guidelines for Integrated Care for Older People” and its toolkit, published on October 1, 2019. She also judges research grants for the National Institutes of Health Communication Disorders Review Committee.

Dr. Tremblay believes that advocacy and action are inseparable from one another. To that end, she offers coaching and consultancy to help the aging world stay productive and socially connected through technology and psychology.

As highly sought after public speaker and panelist, Dr. Tremblay delivers presentations on a wide-range of related topics on aging, accessibility and inclusion, career development, and technological innovations aimed at enhancing human communication and hearing health.

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Fees:

$35.00 LeadingAge WA member community 

$70.00 Participating community 

CEs: 1

Register HERE

 

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