About the workshop
Working with geriatric populations is a growing challenge to professionals as we baby boomers age. We have unfortunately been led to believethat the most important intimacy is coupling in a primary relationship. While that is gratifying to many, it is not the only intimacy available. As we age, through the death of a mate, break-ups, etcl, even those who are coupled will at some point become single. It has been shown that those trive best who have cultivated and learned to value and cherish intimacy of all kinds , including family or origin, friends who serve as extented community and community.
This session will cast a lens at intimacy, creating ways to assist clients in assessing, and expanding social supports as desired.
We will talk about ways to live life as fully as possible with progressive disabilities as we simultaneously plan realistically for various possibilities on the aging/care continuum.
Finally, we will look at how to bring love (in mutitudinous forms), humor and grace to the aging process.
- Identify your social supports as a way of helping client's do the same
- Explore assumptions about intimacy to expand beyond coupling
- Help clients plan and cope with aging and disablity.
