Successful Caregiving: Stronger Than the Storm
Join us for the 19th Annual Caregiver Conference, where we’ll delve into successful caregiving best practices, further develop your strength-based skills, consult with experts, and network with sponsors and peers. Our conference session topics invite you to consider that successful caregiving is possible.
Tickets
Tickets are $20 online and $30 at the door. No refunds for cancellations after September 5.
Agenda
Registration, coffee, and sponsor tables
Keynote Speaker
Successful Caregiving: Stronger Than the Storm
Paula Wolfson, LSCW
Session 1
Dementia’s Impact on Mental Health
Mehrdad Ayati, MD
Brunch
Break to visit sponsor booths
Session 2
Navigating Healthcare Decisions in Later Life
Marina Martin, MD
Breakouts
Caregiver Support Groups
Keynote
Paula Wolfson, LSCW
Paula Wolfson, LCSW, is the manager of Avenidas Care Partners and has worked with the Avenidas community for over 10 years. She obtained her MSW in 1980 from the School of Social Services at the Catholic University in Washington, DC, and has worked full time as a medical and geriatric social work in teaching university hospitals and outpatient clinics. She relocated to Palo Alto in 2008 to care for her aging mother.
Mehrdad Ayati, MD
Dr. Mehrdad Ayati is the Director of the Geriatric Center, Stanford University Medical School Professor, author of “Pathways to Healthy Aging”, elder care advocate, and he has testified before the US Senate Select Committee on Aging and the California State Legislature.
Marina Martin, MD
Dr. Marina Martin graduated from UCLA School of Medicine, and completed Stanford Internal Medicine Residency, a Masters in Public Health at UC Berkeley, and fellowships with Stanford Geriatric Medicine and the Stanford Prevention Research Center before joining the Stanford faculty in 2011. She served as the first Section Chief of Stanford’s section of Geriatric Medicine, which was formed in 2015. In this role, she oversaw clinical, educational, and health services research programs that promoted optimal, compassionate, personalized care of older adults, especially those with frailty, dementia, or very advanced age. In early 2023 she handed off the reins to her wonderful geriatrician colleagues and left Stanford to recharge her batteries, spend more time with family and friends, and explore what might be her next calling in medicine.
Tickets
Tickets are $20 online and $30 at the door. No refunds for cancellations after September 5.
Sponsors
