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Older Americans are among the most medically vulnerable populations being impacted by COVID-19, especially those in long-term care settings. However, seniors’ life experiences in dealing with adversity and their outlooks on living make them among our nation’s most resilient citizens! This webinar will explore some of the unique physical, social and psychological challenges faced by older adults during this current COVID-19 crisis, and offers some suggestions on how seniors and their family caregivers can maximize their skills and abilities to help survive and thrive during and beyond the pandemic.
Participation is limited to the first 500 people.
About Dale L. Ofei-Ayisi, MA, LCSW, CDP
Dale L. Ofei-Ayisi, MA, LCSW, CDP has over 45 years of post-Masters’ clinical and administrative experience in medical and behavioral health social work with patients experiencing a host of end-stage illnesses, including cancer, Alzheimer’s disease, heart disease and neuromuscular diseases. She has direct practice and supervisory expertise in geriatric and dementia care, critical care, rehabilitation, intervention with family caregivers, and as a professional and community health educator since 1975. Before retiring from the field of Social Work in January, 2020, Dale worked as Outpatient Oncology Social Worker III for the Departments of Radiation Oncology and Outpatient Infusion for the J. Phillip Citta Regional Cancer Center at Community Medical Center - RWJBarnabas Health in Toms River, and has been recipient of their “I Made a Difference” Award three times. She served as Clinical Social Worker for the Geriatric Evaluation and Management Services (GEMS) at former Kimball Medical Center for 8 years and was recipient of the St. Barnabas “Excellence in Caring” Award in 1999; she also served as Senior Social Worker for Monmouth Medical Center’s Anna Alexander Greenwall Geriatric Program from 1991-1994. Read more...
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