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Aging

Engaging Aging
In this upbeat and provocative presentation, Dr Wehry makes the case that healthy aging means neither defying nor denying aging, but rather engaging the process. Participants will discover they can choose to simply get old, or grow old and remain vital across the life span.

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Expanding the Aging Conversation
Memory Matters
Growing Old: What's the Point?
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Mental Health

​Depression, It's Everybody's Business
Depression is common, overlooked, devastating, treatable, preventable and a significant public health issue. Dr Wehry convincingly argues for universal screening, appropriate treatment and prevention programs. 

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​Suicide Prevention
The 4Ds: Dementia, Depression, Delirium and Drugs
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Diminished Capacity

​Compassion not Control
Few issues are more troubling than the fear of loss of self-determination. Using actual stories, Dr Wehry explores the challenges individuals and families face in the context of diminished decision-making capacity and increasing needs for help.
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Alternatives to Guardianship
The Ethics of Compassion not Control
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Long-Term Care

​Patienthood to Personhood
The world of long-term care has changed. Individualized, person-directed care is largely replacing institutional provider-directed care. And enhancing quality of life defines quality of care. With a nod to Maya Angelou, Dr Wehry shows us how to do better now that we know better.

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Open Arms, Closed Doors
Quality End-of-life Care
Caring for Carers
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Medications + Alternatives

​First, Do No Harm
Everyone knows behaviors may express unmet needs and that medications may harm as well as heal. But not everyone knows what to do for residents in distress. With humor, data and common sense, Dr Wehry presents up-to-date interventions that work.

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Start Low, Go Slow
​Problems with Polypharmacy
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Staff Development

Oasis 2.0 - Unleashing the Power of Compassion
In this presentation, Dr Wehry provides an overview of the Oasis curriculum, the philosophy, and how you can use it to create homes where people want to live and staff want to work.



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​What You Do Matters - A Curriculum for Staff Stability
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Workshops

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  • How to Assess Capacity
  • How to Start Difficult Conversations about Dating, Driving and Dying
  • How to Recognize and Respond to Late Life Depression
  • Tag! You’re It - How to improve quality and prevent unnecessary medication and quality-of-life citations
  • ​Non-pharmacologic Strategies and How to Use Them

Select Resources

 Select third-party resources and links mentioned in recent trainings

Capacity for Sexual Consent in Dementia in Long-Term Care - PDF

Upcoming


York County 2nd Annual Healthy Living Expo
April 2, 9:30 AM
Engaging Aging - PDF
Trafton Center,
19 Elm Street, Sandford, ME

Texas OASIS Home and Community Based Services Training Academy (HCBS)

In Texas, an estimated 350,000 people live with Alzheimer’s disease. With the aging of the Baby Boom generation, the number is growing. Someone develops Alzheimer’s every 66 seconds, and projections indicate this will increase to every 33 seconds by 2050.


The Texas OASIS HCBS Training Academy, offered by Dr. Susan Wehry, will provide information on dementia basics, person-centered care, challenging behaviors and interventions. Expand your knowledge, sharpen your skills and gain tools and resources to care for people with Alzheimer’s or dementia.

The Texas OASIS Home and Community Based Services Training Academy will be presented at the following locations throughout Texas in 2017-2018:

Dec. 13-14, 2017, Austin
Feb. 15-16, 2018, Houston
March 21-22, 2018, El Paso
March 27-28, 2018, Edinburg
March 29-30, 2018, Laredo
April 18-19, 2018, Houston
April 25-26, 2018, Abilene
May 9-10, 2018, San Antonio
May 16-17, 2018, Corpus Christi
May 23-24, 2018, Fort Worth
Register for a free 2-day training

Past

​Maine Osteopathic Association
Midwinter Symposium 2018
Assessing Diminished Capacity in Older Adults—and Why It Matters
February 10th, 2018
Portland, ME

Nepal Medical Pilgrimage - Experiences and Observations
American Geriatrics Society UNE COM Chapter
Bideford, ME
​January 16, 2018.

Tashi Delek - The Power of Ritual in Life
Gulfport, FL
January 12, 2018

Texas Oasis  |  HHSC
January 11-12, 2017 – Austin
January 18-19, 2017 – Corpus Christi
February 7-8, 2017 – Edinburg

Dementia Care Strategies and Dementia Care Considerations
SABRA Partner Conference  |  Huntington Beach, CA  | January 26, 2017

Guardianship Forum
Aging and Adult Care of Central Washington  |  May 12, 2017
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Celebration
MHCA Annual Awards  |  Sept 19, 2017

Texas Oasis  |  HHSC

November 1-2, 2016 - Lubbock
November 3-4, 2016 - Abilene
November 15- 16, 2016 – Dallas
November 17-18, 2016 -- Tyler
December 1-2, 2016 – Houston
December 6-7, 2016 – El Paso
December 12-13, 2016 – San Antonio

Pause. Look. Listen. Engaging residents living with mental illness
Serving Others with Compassion not Control
Depression: It's Everybody's Business
Vermont Housing Managers Association  |  Manchester, NY | October 27, 2016

Depression: It's Everybody's Business
Sunrise Senior Living
Atlanta, GA, August 9
New York, NY, September 20
Uniondale, NJ, September 27
Norwood, MA October 4


Texas Oasis: Training for Trainers
Austin, TX

September 13-14, 2016

Texas Geriatric Symposium: Taking the Next Step
Austin, TX
August 2, 2016

26th Annual Maine Geriatrics Conference
​June 3, 2016

Maine Suicide Prevention Program
May 6, 2016

Barss Residential
​April 20, 2016

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St. Claire County Dementia and Alzheimer's Resource Committee
​April 19, 2016

Maine Suicide Prevention Program
May 6, 2016

Barss Residential
​April 20, 2016

St. Claire County Dementia and Alzheimer's Resource Committee
​April 19, 2016

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SASH
​​April 5, 2016

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LEADER Summit
​March 16, 2016

Oasis 2.0 Webinar
March 11, 2016

​Senior Health Care Summit, CHI St. Alexis
​March 3, 2016

Oasis 2.0 TX: From Patienthood to Personhood
November 3 - December 1, 2015

AHCA/NCAL 66th Annual Conference
​October 4-7, 2015

NERSC 17th Annual Conference
​May 6-8, 2015

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