Speaker: Sara Qualls, PhD, ABPP
Dates and Times: 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Friday of September from 8-11AM PT/9AM-11AM MT/10AM-12PM CT/11AM-1PM ET
When caregiving challenges family systems in the later part of life, individuals and families often struggle with practical and emotional burdens that are too often fraught with family conflict. Families with long histories are expected to engage in novel work related to declining functional health of aging member(s) without training. Not surprisingly, many families find themselves overwhelmed with practical tasks that are emotionally loaded and interpersonally complicated. In this three-part series, participants from all mental health professions are invited to consider how the intersection of three major bodies of research on family development, family systems, and successful aging can help them guide family members toward more successful strategies to handle the very daunting tasks they face.
Learning Objectives
Learners who participate in the full series will be able to:
- Name three developmental tasks of family development in later life
- Describe how family relationships change in later life
- Discuss factors that influence how caregiving for older adults emerges as a developmental task within the family
- Compare challenges experienced while caring for persons living with dementia with those experienced by families caring for persons with other diseases and conditions that are not cognitively impairing to the care recipient.
Please register here.
