NAAP Board Panel Discussion

Speaker: Marie Gress LMSW-Macro This workshop will walk grant-seeking novices through grant proposal readiness, researching new partnerships, funding options to consider, proposal sections from cover letter to evaluation, and reporting after the grant period. We’ll talk about writing tips and strategies as well as ethical planning throughout the process.     Watch this webinar on-demand HERE 

Whether required as part of your role, or a temporary responsibility due to outside facilitator restrictions, there is an increasing expectation that AP and TR professionals are skilled at teaching high-quality senior fitness classes. In this session, we’ll discuss where to start, what to include, and how to enhance your senior fitness offering to keep […]

Speaker: Lorraine Lee ACC, CDP, M.Ed., Certificate UNC Therapeutic Horticulture  Horticultural Therapy is as old as man and woman have been on the Earth. From ancient Egyptians making fabric from flax and cotton and using plants to help heal the sick to volunteers in hospitals during WWII using gardens to heal returning soldiers suffering from […]

In this session, we will talk about loneliness in long term care. Often considered a fatality, there are (innovative) ways to better engage residents with their family, friends and carers. One of them is called Famileo and it allows a resident to receive every week a personal printed family newsletter, written by their family, specifically […]

Speaker: Mark Lombard Art has been used in contexts of education and aesthetics throughout history. Therapeutic Art is a relatively new discipline that uses art to generate an unusually high level of well-being. Art coupled with engagement conversation tremendously increases participants’ quality of life in all dimensions: psychosocially, cognitively, spiritually, and physically. During this interactive […]

Speaker: Roger Anunsen President & Michael Patterson CEO This webinar will explore the emergence of a new, evidence-based pathway to brain wellness that has been specifically designed for today’s activity professionals. Two pioneers in the fields of applied brain science and creative aging will present key elements of their system for designing and implementing cognitively […]