Ongoing opportunities with The Aging Awareness Initiative

Attended the Webinar filled with esteemed guest speakers on the topic of healthy aging for this decade. It provided me with valuable insight on the policies and effort that goes into meeting the needs of the aging population. I also appreciated how translations in different languages, such as Spanish and Portuguese, were available.

I took the Alzheimer’s Association Education Center training modules, which comprised of watching through their videos and slideshows and answering along to interactive questions. I learned quite a bit, ranging from statistics of dementia and Alzheimer’s, its history, advancements in the field, and best practices when caring for a loved one with Alzheimer’s. Some modules took 30 minutes, some 45, and a few over 2 hours because they had multiple videos in one module. This, plus the time to take the survey after each module, amasses to 10 hours and 30 minutes.