Course Description
Course Description:
Research shows that almost 40% of men over 50 discuss sexual health with their providers. The perception of sexual activity amongst the senior population has resulted in limited information that minimizes access to information pertaining to health, privacy, consent, STIs, and living in communities and long-term care facilities. We all want to live full lives with meaningful relationships, as professionals it’s important to be fully aware of sexuality and aging and the perspective of senior service providers. This course will provide you with an example of a Sexual Expression Policy and tools and insight necessary to ensure that the seniors you serve can have a full, healthy future.
Contact Hours: 4
Target Audience:
Instructional Level: IntermediateAccreditation Information:
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Course Outline:
Hour 1
- Overview of U.S. aging population
- Trends affecting senior population
- Wellness perception impact
- Discussion of sex and sexuality
Hour 2
- Understanding sexual health problems
- Overview of sexual script theory
- Research finding on seniors and sexual behavior
- Connection between sexual health and aging experience
Hour 3
- Discuss senior service providers
- Learn about long and short term communities providing home accommodations
- Understand home policies pertaining to privacy
- Living options supporting aging
- Sexual health and sexually transmitted infections (STIs)
- Explore sexuality in older age
Hour 4
- Discuss medication effects on sexual health
- Explore consent and cognitive health
- Effects of cognition on sexual health
- Understanding the rights of cognitively impaired individuals and sexual freedom
- Explore ethical issues of capacity and personal choice
- Impact of cognitive impairment in senior communities, pertaining to sexual freedom
Course Goals & Objectives:
Course Goals:
Participants will gain a level of understanding that enables professionals to discuss sexual health and intimacy with senior patients.
Learning Outcomes:
- Identify gaps in understanding pertaining to aging and sexual health.
- Define sex and sexuality.
- Identify preventative care and sexual health.
- Locate studies pertaining to aging and sexual health.
- Recognize gaps in care.
- Identify senior housing and communities.
- Recognize the importance of privacy policies.
- Recognize balance between longevity, health, and wellbeing.
- Identify impact of mental capacity and cognition on sexual health.
- Recognize rights of cognitively impaired individuals in senior communities.
- Recognize impact that sexual choice has on aging and quality of life.
Disclosures:
WEBINAR
A webinar is LIVE INTERACTIVE audio and video course delivered over the Internet to your computer. With a HomeCEU webinar, you are able to see, hear and interactive with the course presenter. In many courses, demonstrative video will be used to further enhance your learning experience. All content used in the presentation will also be made available to you for your personal use (PowerPoint Slides, Reference Materials etc.).
Contact Hours: 4 contact hours in length (check your state’s approval status in the state specific course catalog for your profession).
Target Audience: Physical Therapist, Physical Therapist Assistant, Occupational Therapist, Occupational Therapist Assistant, Speech Language Pathologist, Nurse, Nursing Home Administrator, Social Worker, and Activities Professionals.
Instructional Level: Intermediate
Criteria for Completion: The successful completion of a post course examination is required to receive credit for your webinar participation. A score of 70% or higher is required. You will have additional attempts to pass the examination should it be needed.
PLEASE NOTE: All webinar exams MUST be successfully completed by midnight Central Standard Time on the day of the webinar broadcast.
This course is offered for 0.40 ASHA CEUs (Intermediate level, Related area).
Personnel Disclosure:
Financial – Joy Siegel is the owner of Joy Siegel Solutions and receives a salary. She receives payment from Colibri Healthcare, LLC for the presentation of this course.
Nonfinancial - no relevant nonfinancial relationship exists.
No relevant conflicts of interest exist for any member of the activity planning committee.
Content Disclosure: This course does not focus solely on any specific product or service
Cancellation Policy: For activity cancellation, returns, or complaint resolution, please contact us by email help@homeceu.com or by phone at 1.800.55.4CEUS (2387). We have a 100% satisfaction guarantee. Refunds will be issued for courses that have not been completed (exam not taken), or for any course that has been rejected by your board of approval. Webinar attendance must be canceled 24 hours before the scheduled start time.
Authors:
Joy Siegel, EdD, MBA
Joy Siegel spent the past 15 years working in the nonprofit sector as a fundraising consultant. While doing so she became especially partial to working in the social service sector, especially with senior adults. In 2012 Joy achieved a lifelong goal of obtaining a doctoral degree, graduating from Nova Southeastern University with an EdD in Organizational Leadership and Gerontology.
Armed with her education, experience in the social sector, and personal experience as a caregiver to her mother who has been battling Parkinson’s Disease for 20 years, Joy was ready to switch careers and become an Intergenerational Coach. Currently Joy and her partner, Hanna Fink, have developed a sphere of top-notch service providers whose sole purpose in their respective field is to meet the needs of families dealing with the challenges of aging and to assist in providing seniors with the best quality of life.
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