Aging With Dignity

Aging with Dignity
Delta Center’s Virtual Conference

Delta Center for Independent Living is hosting their 4th Annual Aging with Dignity Conference.  We have decided to keep it a virtual formal this year. Through informative presentations on Aging with Dignity topics, you will increase your knowledge base, learn to serve the aging population, and create a better quality of life for our wonderful older adults!Delta Center for Independent Living is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that works with individuals with disabilities to increase personal freedoms and independence for all. Our mission is to partner with people with disabilities and their communities to remove barriers and promote positive changes leading to greater independence.

Presentations:

Aging with Dignity

Ageism

Lisa Ezeamii (Bio) and Jan Keith (Bio)

Many people are living longer, healthier and more independent lives.  Helping our society acknowledge the reality of what aging looks like today can help end ageism.” Join Lisa Ezeamii and Jan Keith, as we explore how ageism can show up in our lives, and how to deal with it when it does.

Lisa Ezeamii

Lisa Ezeamii has been teaching and coaching self-advocates at the Delta Center, and the communities we serve, for the past six years. In addition to community programming, Lisa is also available for one-on-one coaching on how to live your best life with a disability.

Jan Keith

Jan Keith has been with Aging Ahead for 10 years and is the Director of Community Engagement.  In her role, Jan leads a team dedicated to countering ageism through communication, advocacy, engagement and a healthy dose of humility, humor and optimism.

Medicare & U

Stacy Haberstroh (Bio)

In this presentation, you will learn the highlights of 2021 Medicare changes as well as the ins and outs of Medicare enrollment.  Hopefully, after listening to this video, you will feel more comfortable guiding your clients with the various Medicare options.

Stacy Haberstroh

Stacy Haberstroh, owner and founder of the Senior Insurance Concepts. She is a Licensed Senior Insurance Broker. Stacy is certified and represents all major insurance carriers in the St. Louis region. Stacy enjoys public speaking, she regularly speaks on topic of aging and healthcare choices, and as assisted other professionals and Seniors in the area for more than 18 years. Stacy brings clients hand-on experiences as an industry executive an individual consultant. Stacy is a member of the City of Chesterfield Older Adult Task Force, West County Chamber, and Help me Susan. Stacy has assisted thousands of Senior and their families as they have transitioned into Medicare. For more information contact Stacy at 314-517-4073 or visit www.Seniorinsuranceconcpets.com or [email protected]

Aging and Sexual Health

Jessica Naslund (Bio)

This presentation addresses some of the changes in body, relationships, and environments that people with disabilities experience as they age.  Participants will also receive tools and information about resources to support individuals in their personal and professional lives while understanding the difference in what those supports may look like.

Jessica Naslund

Jessica Naslund is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and AASECTCertified Sexuality Educator supervisor who teaches and provides therapy for all individuals.  She is an adjunct professor in the UMSLSUCCEED transitional program for individuals with intellectual disabilities. She helped to create the first ever healthy relationships, sexuality, and abuse prevention grant funded program through YWCA SHADE programin St. Louis which has resulted in the education of individuals, support staff, law enforcement and medical staff about the intricate layers of support needed to prevent exploitation of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.  She is a founding member of the Safe Circle Coalition, a collaboration of 19 St. Louis disability provider agencies and trauma agencies concerned with preventing sexual abuse against people with developmental disabilities since its inception in 2010.  Jessica is also in private practice seeing individuals, couples, and families, both neurotypical and neurodivergent.

Aging and Mental Health: The Right to Self Determination vs A Danger to Self or Others

Allison Minks (Bio)

As our clients age, we want to protect their most basic human rights and grant them the freedom to make independent choices.  The difficulty occurs when their choices may harm themselves or others. In this video, you will learn to navigate that grey area.

Allison Minks

Allison is the Director of Clinical Services at Center Point Hospital in St. Charles, Missouri.

Aging and LGBTQ Issues

Molly Pearson (Bio)

Learn from Molly Pearson, Special Programs Manager at SAGE of PROMO Fund, about the unique disparities faced by the LGBT community, and how they impact LGBT older adults specifically. This presentation covers things you need to know to provide affirming services to LGBT older adults, best practices, and resources available in the area.

Molly Pearson

Molly Pearson (she/her, or any) is the Special Programs Manager for PROMO and SAGE of PROMO Fund. She has a decade of teaching, facilitation, and curriculum development experience in areas of public speaking and storytelling, sex education, and cultural competency. Based in St. Louis, she has worked in the statewide effort to modernize Missouri’s HIV-specific laws, and is a member of the What Would an HIV Doula Do? collective, which explores contemporary cultural responses to the ongoing HIV epidemic. She earned her Master of Social Work in 2019 from the Brown School of Social Work at Washington University.