August is National Wellness Month. All types of wellness are important across the course of life, from mental and physical wellness to the other dimensions of wellness in the graphic below. As we age, wellness is critical in shaping our quality of life.
Mental Well-Being: Regaining Confidence and Control
In this virtual session, Dr. Wehry explores how to respond to the sadness, anxiety, fear, and stress that arise when survivors face the short and long-term consequences of a disaster.
Workforce Well-Being: It’s About Burnout
This Spotlight explores common distress symptoms and proven strategies to manage compassion fatigue and secondary traumatic stress related to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Opening Doors to Aging Services: A LeadingAge Initiative
This spotlight provides an overview of the Opening Doors to Aging Services initiative, including a review of the external factors and public perceptions that exist today, as well as strategies for leveraging research for impactful communications about our sector.
Fostering Emotional Well-Being Among Team Members
In this 19-minute QuickCast, Kelly O’Shea Carney explains why a comprehensive systems approach to supporting the emotional well-being of all members of the organization is so important.
Managing Mental Health: Considerations in COVID-19
In this 13-minute QuickCast, Elizabeth Hale explains how the global pandemic is affecting our mental health and emotional well-being—and ways we can manage it.
Living Well With Dementia
An in-depth look at how our evolving thinking about dementia and person-directedness can prompt new ideas.
An America Freed From Ageism
This 15-minute QuickCast provides an overview of the LeadingAge vision to help aging services providers engage in discussion about ageism with board members, staff, residents/clients, and others.