- Getting Your Mind, Body and Spirit in the Game
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Workshop description
Age can be just a number. Or it can be a challenge you welcome with open arms. This program brings together three quality indicators of aging — the physical aspects of aging, the mental aspects affecting aging, and the business of aging. We start with the importance of exercise, the best kind of exercise for our aging bodies, and how to make exercise a daily habit. Our social worker will discuss the ways the baggage of life can clog up our ability to enjoy life and absorb the challenges that come with aging. We will also discuss the “business” side of our lives and how to design and complete your personal business plan to meet your goals. The combination of these topics helps move us toward a healthier, happy and more fulfilled life.
Presenters
- Evie Curtis is the development director at Assured Trust Company. After over 40 years in the financial industry, Curtis continues to advocate for seniors and persons with disabilities. Her trust career spans many years with Bank of America, Country Club Trust Company and after four years of retirement, Assured Trust Company. She has been an active speaker in our community on topics ranging from housing choices to estate planning. Curtis had to reinvent her life — physically and mentally — after the death of her spouse. Reflecting on the past only drives her to make the future look even better.
- Melissa McKinley is a talented and accomplished professional with proven success and excellence leading programs and services within diverse fields of social work, including 10+ years of experience within a hospice setting. She possesses highly developed organizational and leadership skills, mixed with a calm and discreet manner that grows relationships and trust between families, personnel and community constituents. McKinley demonstrates her leadership capacity through her involvement in the development of Kansas Supported Family Living Services which is now known as Home and Community Based Services in the state of Kansas. She brings genuine passion and dedication to delivering exceptional outcomes while ensuring meaningful connections are maintained. Well versed and knowledgeable in various facets of the industry, she is consistently chosen to serve in public forums, as well as highly competitive referral consultations, as the face and voice of the company and industry.
- Kansas City Region: A Great Place to Live and Age Well
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Workshop description
In anticipation of the dramatic increase in our region's older adult population, nearly 23 local jurisdictions in the Kansas City region are taking concrete steps to increase their age-friendliness. Hear from representatives from four of these communities describe policies and actions undertaken to respond to the needs of all residents.
Presenter
Lauren Schaumburg is the community engagement specialist for MARC's Aging and Adult Services department. In addition to coordinating public-facing programs serving older adults, she helps coordinate the Communities for All Ages Recognition Program, which leads cities through a process of self-assessment and action related to age-friendly municipal policies and planning. Schaumburg joined MARC's Aging and Adult Services department with a background in improving food systems and access, and is passionate about creating pathways for people of all ages to fulfill their greatest potential.
- Art Museums and Creative Aging
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Workshop description
In this session, educators from The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art will share Vitality Arts, a new initiative designed to address ageism and foster creativity, social engagement and wellbeing among older adults. Presenters will provide an overview of project components including community partnerships, creative aging workshops and exhibitions, age equity staff and volunteer training, and evaluation. Attendees will hear about success and best practices, as well as lessons learned and early results of the initiative.
Presenters
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Amy Berridge, senior manager of school programs at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, oversees PreK-12 teacher and student programs, as well as youth and adult studio experiences. She taught art in public, private and charter schools before joining the Nelson-Atkins in 2011 to teach school workshops and studio classes. She earned a B.S. in Art Education from the University of Missouri–Kansas City and completed an M.S. in Leadership in Museum Education from Bank Street College as a Kress Fellow.
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Jackie Niekamp, manager of community and access programs at the Nelson-Atkins, cultivates relationships with community organizations, designs hands-on workshops in the community, onsite and virtually to underrepresented audiences. Recently named the Museum Art Educator of the Year by the Museum Art Education Association, Niekamp joined the museum in August 2014 as a teaching artist. Niekamp has a background in silk screening and earned her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
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Anne Manning, deputy director of learning and engagement at the Nelson-Atkins, oversees school and community programs and partnerships, visitor engagement and research, and the library and archives. Prior to that, she held positions at the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas at Austin, and the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College. Manning has an M.A. in art history from the University of Pittsburgh and a B.A. in art history and Italian language and literature from Smith College. In 2010 she was named the National Art Museum Educator of the Year by the National Art Education Association.
- PACE and Aging in Place
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Workshop description
Available in Wyandotte County since 2016, the PACE model of care will be coming to Kansas City, Missouri, for the first time in late 2023. PACE, Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly, is widely considered to be the gold standard of Home and Community Based Care for nursing home-eligible older adults. Available in 31 states, this unique model of care provides a full range of personalized healthcare and wellness services to allow older adults to age gracefully in their home communities. The model emphasizes comprehensive, coordinated and preventive care in a way that treats the whole person — addressing physical, emotional and psychological needs.
This presentation will provide an overview of the PACE model of care, present evidence-based outcomes that prove the efficacy and value of PACE, and present the advocacy work that laid the groundwork for bringing PACE to Kansas City for the first time.
Presenter
- Heath Rath has spent his professional career working to build and expand evidence-based programs that improve the lives of older adults. Over the last seven years, he has focused his efforts on the development of programs that aim to allow older adults to age gracefully in the communities they call home, specifically PACE programs. He worked with Swope Health to successfully lobby members of the Missouri Senate and House of Representatives as well as the Missouri Department of Social Services, MO Health Net Division, to support and appropriate PACE funding.
Prior to his work with Swope Health, Rath served as director of Midland Care Connection’s Ann Street PACE Center in Kansas City, Kansas. During his time at Midland, he oversaw the development and successful launch of Midland’s third center and the first PACE program in the Kansas City metro area.
Rath earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in anthropology and secondary major in gerontology from Kansas State University. He went on to complete a master’s of Science in Gerontology with an emphasis in long-term care administration. While earning his M.S. at Kansas State, he worked in the College of Health and Human Sciences Center on Aging as a project specialist for the PEAK 2.0 program. He also served as the advisor for the K-State Gerontology Ambassadors and the K-State Gerontology Club as well as instructing online undergraduate courses in gerontology. Rath is a licensed long-term care administrator in the state of Kansas.
- Re-Inventing Rural: Aging Well in Small Town America
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Workshop description
Healthy, nutritious meals, educational programs and services for aging adults are few and far between in rural America. When a senior center closes in a community, a void remains. In LaCygne, Kansas, population 1,048, this is exactly what happened. With the closure of the senior center, the LaCygne Library stepped in to fill the void, developing a program tailored to adults age 50+. What started as a lunch & learn with 25 people has grown exponentially – in both attendance as well as programs and services provided.
In this session you will learn how the LaCygne library went from no senior programs to a well-defined method of reaching seniors in their area.
Presenters
- Janet Reynolds has worked with the Library District #2 of Linn County since 1979. She taught elementary school for 18 years, moving to high school library, curriculum, testing and technology before retiring in 2018. She invented and implemented children's programming and brought technology to the library in 1983. In 2018, the board challenged her to reinvent senior programming at the library. As the program has grown, they continue to innovate what senior programming looks like at the library, establishing partnerships with Extension, First Option Bank and others through their Children's summer lunch and enrichment programming. Her dream is to provide as many services to our community as possible.
- Kathy Goul began her K-State Research and Extension career in 2003, specializing in their Foods and Nutrition programs. In 2018, she accepted the position of family and consumer sciences agent, specializing the areas of aging and family resource management. Goul has served in the role of family caregiver on more than one occasion and has seen how Alzheimer’s can devastate a family. She is passionate about providing programs and resources to help individuals and communities in rural America age well. On any given day, Goul can be seen in communities providing programs on estate planning and advance healthcare directives, Alzheimer’s, powerful tools for caregivers, assistive technology, Medicare basics, and avoiding identity theft and scams. Goul is a certified community educator for the Alzheimer’s Association and a Kansas certified SHICK Counselor, providing Medicare education and enrollment assistance.
- Keeping Seniors Active: How MU Extensions' Fall Prevention Programs have Evolved
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Workshop description
This workshop will provide information on the importance of various types of exercise for seniors, such as cardio, balance, flexibility and strength training. The presenters will discuss the health benefits of exercise in general, with an emphasis on the role physical activity plays in fall prevention. They will cover the evidence-based programs MU Extension offers to increase activity and help prevent falls among the aging population in Missouri, like Stay Strong, Stay Healthy, A Matter of Balance, Tai Chi for Arthritis and Fall Prevention and Walk With Ease, and reflect on how those programs have evolved since the beginning of the COVID-19 Pandemic, and what is now known about the pros and cons of in-person versus online delivery methods. There will be an interactive segment of the session, where participants will be led through a sample of Tai Chi exercises and stretches.
Presenters
- Tyler Hall is a nutrition and health education specialist for the University of Missouri Extension. He holds a master’s degree in exercise physiology and a Bachelor’s in nutritional science from the University of Missouri and has several years of experience in the field of falls prevention programming for seniors. Before joining MU Extension, Hall worked in cardiopulmonary rehabilitation, overseeing exercise programs for patients recovering from cardiac events or chronic lung diseases. Hall is committed to promoting active aging and helping seniors maintain their independence. With his hands-on approach, he encourages seniors to participate in physical activity and make small progressive changes for lifelong benefits.
- Melissa Cotton is a field specialist in nutrition and health education, serving Jackson and Clay Counties. She has worked for the University of Missouri Extension for six years, providing educational opportunities focusing on nutrition, health, wellness, food safety, physical activity and chronic disease prevention and self-management. Her local educational programs contribute to MU Extension’s long-term goal of improving the national health ranking of Missouri from 40th to 25th.
- Seniors Who Paint™
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Workshop description
Seniors Who Paint™ is a unique program dedicated to inspiring older people to showcase their art on greeting cards. Art gives a positive awareness of a person’s hidden talent and an opportunity to believe in themselves through their talent. Attendees will learn how the Seniors Who Paint program can be incorporated within independent living and senior center programming. Attendees will be provided paint supplies and be given the opportunity to paint. Artwork from previous Seniors Who Paint programs will be available for participants to view.
Presenter
Carolyn Caniglia, founder, Seniors Who Paint™, has 45 years of business marketing experience. She engineered four business start-ups, starting with co-owning a construction company and a real estate firm. In addition, Caniglia opened a women’s shoe store, later adding three more locations. She is the author of the workbook Seven Steps to the Magic of Marketing, and is a widely respected public speaker, and leads marketing seminars for businesses and colleges. Caniglia was host to a weekly radio talk show “Business Smart, Learning Through the Knowledge of Others.” She also was a delegate to the White House Conference on Small Business.
Her latest accomplishment is to use her marketing background and to start a business greeting card company. The company provides businesses with personalized employee birthday and anniversary cards. She also launched
Seniors Who Paint™ original art program for seniors, and Treasures of Your TimesTM, that highlight seniors’ treasures to share on greeting cards, and include the history of the treasures in the card.
Caniglia was nominated to receive the Shepherd’s Center Central of Kansas City’s 2018 “70 Over 70” award that recognizes 70 outstanding individuals for inspiring others and building community.