Jackson
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Successful Aging Workshops
MEMORY
This program will focus on how memory works, how it might be affected by age, and how we can actively work to improve it.
CREATIVITY
This program will help participants dispel the myths of creativity, discover their own creative abilities, and enable them to tap into their creative potential.
ACTIVITY/LEISURE/VOLUNTEERISM
This program will help participants recognize the types, benefits and scope of activities and determine ways these can apply to their own lives.
NUTRITION/EXERCISE
Provides information about the importance of antioxidants, calcium, fiber, grains, and water in diet and why healthy choices can contribute to feelings of vitality and self-reliance.
EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE
Through a variety of activities, participants will identify the characteristics and meaning of emotional intelligence, areas of strengths and weaknesses and how to apply emotional intelligence to later life.
SEXUALITY/INTIMACY
Participants will have more understanding about how the normal processes of aging effect the desire of intimacy and sexuality and resources to help handle these changes successfully.
WORK
This program will provide information about the trends in the employment of older people and strategies for older people wishing to enter the workforce and for employers to retain and effectively utilize older workers.
RETIREMENT
Retirement is a very complex issue. This program will emphasize retirement facts, phases of retirement, and variables that affect successful adjustment to retirement.
RELATIONSHIPS
Relationships in later life can be a challenge. This program will help participants learn about how relationships and friendships play roles in older people's lives and identify skills for relational competence.
SPIRITUALITY
There are many ways to support the human spirit and assist older people in learning and exercising skills to feed and nurture their spirit. The program will offer participants vital skills to support the healing and nurturing of the aging human spirit.
OTHER PROGRAMS
· What do you know about aging? · Loss and grief in later life · Living arrangement in later life · Families and aging · Aging parents: Helping when health fails · Educating families about age-related concerns · Anger in older people · Living longer, healthier, and happier · Elderly suicide prevention · Healthwise · Depression in later life · Retirement · Aging awareness
· Preparing for the middle and later years · Mid-life and older women: Current and future prospects · Grandparenting · Women and aging · The positive power of humor · Coping with caregiving · Dealing with stress and crisis · Loneliness · Social influences on individual aging · The value of intergenerational relationships · Aging well · The meaning of aging · Relationships in later life
For further information contact:
Nina Chen, Ph.D. Human Development Specialist University of Missouri Outreach & Extension 1507 S. Noland Road Independence, MO 64055-1307 Phone: 816-252-5051 Fax: 816-252-5575 E-mail: chenn@missouri.edu
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University of Missouri Extension Jackson County Jacksonblsp@missouri.edu Updated 12/13/06 |
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