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    Our Senior Care and Senior Living Seminars

    As Senior Care experts, we provide various seminars and events to local residents to learn more about aging and senior living options. Check out our list of seminars below to learn more about our upcoming topics.



    Seminars

    To schedule a Senior Care Authority® speaker for your venue see DFW and national contact information at bottom
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    Caring For Parents – The Dependency Challenge

    As difficult as it is to become responsible for one’s own parents, it is actually more difficult to learn how to become dependent on your children. What are those challenges and how can you best cope with them?
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    Experiencing A Healthy And Happy Holiday Season With Your Family

    As families gather to celebrate the holidays, there is a potential downside. This is the time of year that seniors experience their greatest health challenges. And one of the reasons for those challenges is the family gathering. What can you do to keep yourself healthy and happy during this time of stress and joy? This seminar can be adapted to address how the family can prepare for hosting or visiting their loved senior.
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    How To Talk To Your Doctor When You Have A Serious Illness

    Doctors have to have serious talks with patients frequently—talks about life and death. Yet, they are typically ill-prepared for those talks. You have probably never had that talk before, or possibly once or twice, making you even less prepared for that talk. How can you prepare and what should you focus on when you are faced with this situation?
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    Senior Living: Choosing The Community

    Even though most senior living decisions are made quickly due to some health-related event, we typically have sufficient time and awareness to make a good decision—or do we? What more is needed to make the best decision possible?
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    Behind The Scenes With Medicare And Insurance

    What the websites and most insurance salespeople don’t tell you. Are all supplements and Advantage plans the same? How is Medicare working with hospitals and other providers to keep you healthy—or are they just trying to save money?
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    Aging with a Purpose

    What is the role of faith in aging? Does your faith provide you with purpose as you experience life’s changes?
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    Life: A Work In Progress

    This seminar is interactive with the purpose of informing and preparing seniors for transitions in their life as they age. It is conducted in two sessions 1-3 weeks apart. Some lead time is necessary to collaborate with the hosting group and customize to the audience
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    Truths and Myths of Senior Living and Long-Term Care

    Test yourself with our quiz! Does Medicare cover most types of long-term care? Is Assisted Living like a Convalescent Home? Do spouses of veterans receive help paying for long-term care? We discuss conventional wisdom – and common misunderstandings.
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    Planning for Long-Term Care: The Talks, the Team, and the Timing

    What decisions need to be made to prepare for possible long-term care? What do we discuss as a family? What kinds of help do we need to build and execute a good plan? Even doing the right things in the wrong order can create problems. Courageous families address these issues head on to make difficult transitions much less challenging.
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    Paying for Long-Term Care: New Solutions and Vanishing Resources

    Where is the money going to come from? This discussion provides survey of resources, including some less common tools and approaches. From long-term care insurance and life benefit plans to VA benefits, Medicare, Medicaid, reverse mortgages, and bridge loans – the tools are plentiful, but complicated.
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    Stay or Move? In-Home Care vs Independent/Assisted Living

    How can you stay at home safely as long as possible? When more care is needed, how do you find the right place and smooth the downsizing process? We discuss the decisions, resources, and costs involved in maximizing quality of life before and after a move.
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    Senior Placement vs. Remote Referrals

    Is a database enough to find the right long-term care? Entrusting a senior to a long-term care community is both life changing and high stakes. We discuss the difference between internet and phone-based referral services vs. hands-on placement agents who know the communities, leadership, and safety records.
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    The Hidden Costs of Caregiving for Businesses

    Tens of millions of working Americans are caregivers at home. From absenteeism to stress and pre-occupation, the costs to businesses are estimated in the $100’s of billions. Proactive employers are improving productivity and satisfaction through strategic resources for caregivers.

     

    Seminar Presenters:

    Joe Boorman, CALM | (806) 281-8534 | [email protected]
    Joe is an author, speaker, and aging authority with decades of experience leading all levels of senior living and care. In addition to being a Certified Assisted Living Manager, Joe is an ordained minister who combines industry insider insight with a pastoral heart to help families find dignity, safety, and purpose.
     
    John Alagood CSA, CPA, CDP | (469) 333-8833 | [email protected]
    John is the Area Owner of Senior Care Authority and a frequent speaker on senior living and care topics. A Certified Senior Advisor and Certified Dementia Practitioner, John and his team have helped hundreds of families find dignity and quality of life in later years.
     
    "John Alagood is helping us. He is Great to work with! He is listening and asking great questions and reassuring our loved one that she is in control (very important for anyone, but seniors especially). We are very thankful to have the help looking at communities and understanding all of the aspects (care levels and financial). Thanks John!"

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    Space is limited RSVP is required to reserve your spot.

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    “I did not feel alone anymore with this enormous decision.”

    - Sylvia P. / Crossroads, TX

    “Thank you for your skillful negotiation. You helped make the perfect community for mom work financially.”

    - Joel H / Irving, TX

    “Your services were terrific and our parents are very happy with their new community!”

    - Lisa K. / Plano, TX

    "Bonita is a 10! Smart, organized, caring, resourceful, energetic, all the things you want and need when searching for the best solutions to those you care about. I would highly recommend Bonita to anyone who would like help caring for someone they love. I've been blessed to have her in my corner!"

    - Jeff Taber

    “Thank you for your skillful negotiation. You helped make the perfect community for mom work financially.”

    - Joel H / Irving, TX

    “Your services were terrific and our parents are very happy with their new community!”

    - Lisa K. / Plano, TX

    "Ms. Bonita Plested assisted my son with housing and in home care. She has been very compassionate, understanding, supportive and professional. Thank you for your assistance in this matter and it has been an honor to work with Bonita Plested."

    - Laura M.
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