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Healthcare & Wellness • Caregiving • Daily Living Resources
Senior Connections • Life Planning
November 3 & 4, 2006
John Q. Hammons Convention Center • Rogers, Arkansas
Click here to download our Caregiver Flyer in PDF form for instructions on how to receive a discount when you attend one of our informational caregiver sessions on Saturday.
The Silver Summit is focused on helping those at or approaching their senior years create the best part of their lives. National speakers will address the critical issues facing this motivated and energetic demographic. Healthcare and business professionals and the general community will gain insights and new information on healthy aging.
Speakers will address the latest in health and wellness, technology, financial planning, fitness and entertainment resources, products and services with topics such as the following:
- A new vision of the elderly
- Finding purpose at midlife
- Financial preparation for retirement
- Fearless caregiving
- Peak aging fitness
- Dressing with style
- Maintaining heart health
- Ethnogeriatrics
- The future of pain care management
- Swallowing disorders
- Medical ethics and advance directives
- Aging in place-universal design
- Ministry and parish nursing programs
- Chicken Soup for the Caregiver's Soul
- Dental health for seniors
- Legal issues and identity theft discussion
- Long-term housing options
- Urinary incontinence
- Advanced techniques in wound care
- Osteoporosis
- "What Are We Going to Do with Dad?"
Notable speakers include:
 LeAnn Thieman
A nationally acclaimed motivational speaker, author and nurse for 30 years, she is co-author of theNew York Times' bestsellers Chicken Soup for the Nurse's Soul, Chicken Soup for the Christian Woman's Soul, Chicken Soup for the Caregiver's Soul, Chicken Soup for Father and Daughter Soul, Chicken Soup for the Grandma's Soul, Chicken Soup for the Mother and Son Soul and Chicken Soup for the Christian Soul 2.
 Jerald Winakur, MD, FACP, CMD
Dr. Jerry Winakur has practiced internal and geriatric medicine in San Antonio, Texas, for 30 years. He is currently an associate with Pasteur Medical Associates, a group he founded in 1990. He is Associate Faculty Member at the Center for Medical Humanities and Ethics at the University of Texas Health Science Center and has lectured in Humanities at the University of Texas at San Antonio.
Last year Dr. Winakur's essay, "What Are We Going To Do With Dad," appeared in The Washington Post and was syndicated in newspapers across America.
 Gary Barg
The author of the book The Fearless Caregiver, Barg is recognized as an expert in caregiving. He is Editor-in-Chief of Today's Caregiver, the first nationally circulated magazine to take a consumer-friendly, stylish look at the tough topic. With a circulation of 50,000 nationwide, it has featured interviews with celebrity caregivers and patients such as Mariette Hartley and Robert Urich, along with practical articles about communicating with a dementia patient, caring for a chronically ill child or finding an adult care center.
Contact Virginia Thompson via e-mail or phone at 479.927.9977 for additional Silver Summit details.
Virginia Thompson
Schmieding Center for Senior Health and Education
2422 N. Thompson
Springdale, AR 72764
479.927.9977
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