Since education is the key to better and healthier aging, caregiving and care planning, our seminar series will help you learn what you need to know to prevent a crisis, cope with providing care and finally how to plan for your care as you age.

Whether you are a small community group, a corporation, association or organizing a conference, the seminars can be packaged in various lengths and arranged for a time and place convenient to you. Other topics are available.

Selected Seminar Topics (Custom presentations available)

Aging

• Everybody’s Doing It…Aging That Is. Healthcare/Financial Challenges and Solutions
• Aging in Place: Helping It Happen
• Frailty - What It Means and How to Cope: A Family Caregiver’s Perspective
• Caring for the Aging: Challenges and Solutions

Eldercare

• Family Caregiving: A Plan for Action
• Keynote Address: The Other Side of Caregiving
• It’s Never Too Early - or Too Late - to Start the Conversation: Talking to Parents About Their Changing Needs
• Elder Abuse: Out of the Closet and On the Agenda
• Placement and the Family: Conquering the Stigma and Stress

Dementia

• Keynote Address: Dementia Diary: Moving From the Darkness into the Light
• What It Means to Have a Loved One Afflicted with Dementia

Long Term Care Planning

• Long Term Care Planning: Women Take Note!
• Long Term Care Planning: Steps You Can Take Now

How You Benefit When You Engage Karen As A Speaker

When Karen works with her clients on any presentation or keynote, she:

• Creates a presentation customized to your needs
• Creates a PDF handout of the presentation for copying and distribution to attendees
• Creates a table displaying resources she has discussed in the presentation for attendees to view

Where Karen Has Spoken  (A Partial List of Engagements)

Canada

• Mackenzie Financial National Tour - 2008
• The Toronto Condo Show – Toronto. ON
• The Canadian Bar Association – Toronto, ON
• Alzheimer’s Disease: Understanding, Caring & Coping. The Weizmann Institute – Toronto, ON
• CGA (Certified General Accountants) of Ontario – Mississauga, ON
• Canadian Association of Pre-Retirement Planners (CAPP) National Conference – Saskatoon, SK
• Sun Life National Advisor Education Tour – Summer 2005
• Phillips, Hager & North Investment Management Client Seminars – ON, AB, BC
• Manulife Financial Advisor Seminar – Calgary, AB
• The 3rd Annual World Critical Illness Conference – Toronto, ON
• Champlain District Health Council AGM – Ottawa, ON
• Caring for the Frail Elderly: Glenrose Rehab Hospital/Capital Health – Edmonton, AB
• Hydro One: Employee Lunch and Learn – Toronto, ON
• An Elder Abuse Workshop for the North Bay/District Senior Abuse Network -- North Bay, ON
• 12th Annual Karl Kinanen Public Lecture, McMaster University – Hamilton, ON
• First Nations Case Management Training Program – McMaster University, Hamilton, ON
• Central Park Lodges Regional Annual Conference – Orillia, ON
• Parkinson Society Canada Annual Conference – London, ON
• Canada Customs & Revenue Agency EAP Conference – Alliston, ON
• Ontario Long Term Care Association Annual Conference – Toronto, ON
• American Society on Aging Conference - Vancouver, BC
• Janssen-Ortho Inc. Dementia Workshop – Toronto, ON
• Ontario Hospital Association: Dealing with Dementia Conference – Toronto, ON
• Homewood Behavior Health: Employee Assistance Program: EAP Spring Training – Guelph, ON
• CCAC Annual Meetings – Toronto, Etobicoke, North Bay, Woodstock ON
• Public Service Commission Of Canada Wellness Fair - Toronto, ON
• The Ontario Legislature (series of 4) – Toronto, ON
• The MS Society - Toronto, ON
• Sunnybrook Medical Science Centre Grand Rounds – Toronto, ON

U.S.

• Canadian Military Family Resource Centre-Peterson AFB -- Colorado Springs, CO
• St. Agnes Medical Centre Fourth Annual Nursing Summit – Fresno, California
• South Dakota Conference on Aging – Pierre, South Dakota
• The Well Spouse Foundation 2000 Annual Meeting – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• The Parkinson Foundation of Oregon – Portland, Oregon
• Easter Seals Conference for Caregivers/Professionals -- Rapid City, South Dakota
• The National MS Society – New York City, New York

For more information, rates or to confirm a date, contact Karen Henderson:
416.323.1090

www.ltcplanningnetwork.com