Senior Roundtables

 

2010 Meeting Planner
2009 Date	Confirmed Location	Confirmed Talk	Tentative Location	Tentative Talk
Jan 27, 3pm-5:30pm	Campbell Senior Center Roosevelt Redwood Room Q80	Vendor Faire
Feb 18	Channing House -s Auditorium			Senior Roundtable steering committee open discussion about: LinkedIn, networking tips,  the future of the group etc.
March 18	Sunnyvale Senior Cener, Home Instead (Nikki) - s			Judith London
April 15	Golden Heritage Living-s 1275 North 4th St San Jose, CA  95112 Penthouse - 4th Floor	Nancy Liu Director of Business Development for Asian American Home Care, she is an MBA and MSW credentials. Will talk about cultural difference between Asian and Western values and lifestyles including some of her stories from being a visiting home care social worker for the elderly.
May 20	The Parkinson's Institute 675 Almanor Avenue Sunnyvale, CA 94085 Pacific room upstaris	Sandi Smith " Brain way Training" Positive thinking for all!	Classic Residence by Hyatt - l
June 17	Idylwood Care Center Sunnyvale	Judith London author of the  book "Connecting the Dots: Breakthroughs in Communication as Alzheimer's Advances"
July 15	Los Altos Sub-Acute & Rehab	Susan Poor San Francisco Village + Lisa Hendrickson from Avenidas   Talk about the new "Village" concept   ----------------------  There will be a meeting after the July SRT meeting on Villages.  It will be an organizational meeting and hopefully we will have somewhere to hold it at Los Altos Subacute.	Palo Alto Convalencent Hospital - s
August 19	Merril Gardens San Jose -s	Karen Midlo	- l
September 16	Pacific Hills Manor	Larysa Prytula , CFP®– is a financial advisor and a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™  with Master’s degree in Economics and years of experience providing financial security to clients and creating an investment portfolio designed to preserve and build net worth, reduce taxes and generate more income.  She specializes in retirement planning and creating income solutions for retirees.       Info on the event: Financial Planning Considerations For Long-Distance Caregiving   America’s changing demographics have altered the way in which we care for seniors.  According to the American Society on Aging, Americans have more than a 70% likelihood of needing some form of long-term care after age 65.  With the first Baby Boomers turning 65 this year, caregiving needs will only increase. Nearly 7 million Americans provide care for a relative or friend who lives at least one hour away and spend an average of 35 hours per month giving care.  It takes money to grow old in America, and it takes money to care for aging loved ones!  This session will offer some ideas on how to manage financial considerations for long-distance caregiving.   You can share these ideas with your senior clients and their loved ones who may live far away.	Caremore Health Plan - l
October 21	Moldaw Family Residences 899 E. Charlston Rd Palo Alto		Sunnyvale Healthcare - s	Howard Lua Internet Marketing – A Primer
November 18	Sunnyside Gardens	Puneet Chandak, MD   ...very much in the forefront of Alzheimer's research.   " Using PETScan Imaging for diagnosing Alzheimer's Disease"	Valley House - l
Friday Dec 16 8am	The Atrium	"Re"gift exchange

 

 

2010/2011 Planning

 

 

 

 

 

 

Valerie Smith, LCSW

Social Work Supervisor, APS, Santa Clara County 408-975-4900

 

Terri Snyder, MA
Speech-Language Pathologist

   

Valley House Rehab Center- possible meeting location

Lorna Santilan - 408-988-7667

 

Zeinab S. Donner

Executive Director

Atria Sunnyvale - 578

175 E. Remington Drive

Sunnyvale, CA 94087

408) 738-3410 office

408) 738-5698 fax

 

 

 

My name is Rina Sutaria and I'm the Outside Sales Account Manager at Easter Seals Bay Area where we provide aquatic therapy to seniors and the disabled. I attended the Round Table event at O'Connor Hospital yesterday and was impressed by the group! What a great way to network and learn more about other organizations that offer services for seniors.
I would really love the opportunity to be a guest speaker at one of the Santa Clara County Roundtable events. I know that your venues have all been finalized but I see on the website that you need speakers for some of the meetings.
Please let me know which dates are available. I look forward to attending future meetings and learning more about other organizations.
Thanks,
Rina
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Rina Sutaria
Outside Sales Account Manager
Easter Seals Bay Area
730 Empey Way San Jose, CA 95128
Tel: (408) 295-0228 x 226
Fax: (408) 275-9858
www.eastersealsbayarea.org

 

Westgate Villa/Amberwood Gardens would like to offer our facility for a meeting next year for the Senior Roundtable. Would you be the one to talk to? Regards, Tina Alexander Community Relations Manager

If you ever want me to show a 25 min. documentary I made about a 5 generation family of females from age 8 to 103 (she died at 104), I'd be happy to talk about it as it's inspirational for professionals to see a family of caregivers that love and care for each other and the wisdom they impart to share with our clients.I've shown it to many professional groups, caregiver groups and college classes.Vivian I. Silva, MSW/Gerontologist 408-279-5833 or e mail: vivsilva@aol.com

**I was born and raised in San Jose and even graduated from San Jose State. I am a certified Medicare enrollment specialist and have been helping people with their health coverage since 1990. I have 2 professional designations which are Chartered Life Underwriter and Chartered Financial Consultant. The past 2 years have been spent dealing almost exclusively with Medicare programs.
Bret Petrick, CLU, ChFC
1999 S. Bascom Ave., Suite 700 Campbell, CA 95008
408- 358-0084
Fax 408-358-4295 bret_petrick@yahoo.com



-----Original Message-----
From: Dolores Gallagher-Thompson, Ph.D., ABPP,
[mailto:dolorest@stanford.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2007 7:01 PM
To: Stephen Aber
Cc: Peng-Chih Wang; Weiling Liu
Subject: Re: Senior Roundtable: offering to be a speaker at an upcoming
meeting
Hello Stephen,
I would like to speak at an upcoming event about caregiving issues for
ethnic minority families caring for relative with dementia. We have a
particular project right now that focuses on helping Chinese American
caregivers deal with the stress of this, and we have actually created a
DVD series to teach them coping skills like how to manage problem
behaviors, etc. which we are now trying to evaluate.
We are seeking participants for our program evaluation, and thought
that making people aware of it who come to Senior Round Table meetings
might be a good way to locate interested persons.
I emailed you to volunteer, a few weeks ago & you said the coordinating
committee was interested, but I haven't heard anything back, and would
love to get this settled on my calendar. I am not sure of your regular
meeting dates, times, and places... and since I am not myself Chinese,
I would love to bring at least one of the Chinese American colleagues
who work on this project with me, and who could explain things in a
more culturally sensitive way. Dr. Peng Chih Wang would love to do this
if he can work it into his schedule, but he also works full time and has to arrange "time off"
depending on time of day, day of the week, and your location. He works
in San Mateo and I'm based at Stanford so we are not too close by...
So, would you be so kind as to please let us know when we could do our
presentation? we dont need more than 1/2 hr. if time is tight, but we
could go for 45 min or an hour, if that would be appropriate. We can
use slides
(powerpoint) or have it more as an informal discussion. I think right
now the key thing is getting it on our calendars~
thank you so much for assisting us with this process and we look
forward to hearing from you soon. If you'd rather contact me by phone my cell is:
650-400-8172.
Best wishes,
Dolores G. Thompson, Ph.D.
Director, Chinese Caregiver Assistance Project
Peng Chih Wang, Ph.D.
Program Coordinator, Chinese Caregiver Assistance Project
Weiling Liu, MA
Project Assistant
Dolores Gallagher Thompson, Ph.D.,
Diplomate in Clinical Psychology from the American Board of Professional Psychology (ABPP) Professor of Research Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Stanford University School of Medicine; Director, Older Adult & Family Center, VA Palo Alto Health Care System
phone: 650-400-8172
fax: 650-625-0915
email: dolorest@stanford.edu

Hi Steve, I am writing to find out if you need speakers for the round table. Here at Idylwood care Center, Sunnyvale, we have been developing a horticulture and culinary program along with an organic garden, as a part of a cultural change emphasis in our facility. Next month the program will be getting national attention when the publisher ActionPact brings out a new publication about our program.
Franco Diamond, our administrator would be happy to speak at the round table. Please call me on 408-739-2383 if you would like to arrange me to arrange this. I think the round table group would find his talk very stimulating and interesting.
Thanks, Pauline Wakeham, LCSW