Senior Care Authority
Seminars
John Alagood, CPRS, CSA®, CDP, Local Senior Advisor
Certified Placement and Referral Specialist
Certified Senior Advisor®
Certified Dementia Practitioner
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
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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?
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.
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?
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?
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?
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?
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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!"
