Caring for Holocaust Survivors

Apple Care and Companion and its partners are proud to offer a Free educational opportunity for the first time in Dallas, Texas.

Honoring Lives:

Caring for Holocaust Survivors and Their Families.

What Business Professionals and Health Care Providers

need to know.

As the survivors of the Holocaust are now coping with the challenges of aging, it is apparent that early life trauma due to war impacts on the aging process, presenting new and challenging care issues families and staff.  Speaker Paula David has worked with survivors for many years responding to these issues on a multidisciplinary level that incorporates care, education and research. 

February 24, 2011

Location:

Town Village North Dallas

12271 Coit Road

Dallas, Texas 75251

Business Professional Lecture

For Business Professionals, Attorneys, Real Estate Agents, Accountants, Financial Planners, Bankers, Marketers, Administrators, Retailers, Care Plan Managers, Social Workers and Clergy. 

9:00am-11:00am-Continental Breakfast Served -8:30am.

CEU’S available.

This seminar will address the knowledge base of the Holocaust, the emotional impact of extreme trauma on the client, the family and the professionals who care for them. An experiential overview of the potential services that meet the unique needs of Holocaust survivors and their families will be given along with the concurrent professional development provided to their caregivers.  Models for health promotion, personal care and caregiver education will be discussed as well as implementation plans and the impact to both quality care and cost.  The lecture will outline the multidisciplinary responses and initiatives that reflect family partnerships based on collaborative and informed practice. As we respond to the ever-changing needs of the survivors of the Holocaust we are also learning of relevant connections to the needs of all survivors of genocide.  The lecture will address the impact of the Holocaust on modern social justice, nursing and medical ethics, research and client focused care.  

Health Care Professionals and Caregivers Lecture

For Care plan managers, Social Workers, Nurses, Home Health Care Workers, Hospice Staff, Hospital Staff, SNF Staff, CNA’s and all other direct care workers and care givers. 

1:30-3:30pm Snack Provided-CEU’s available.

Survivors of the Nazi Holocaust endured levels of physical, emotional and sexual abuse well beyond the scope of any clinicians’ preparatory academic training.  The worker supporting the aging survivor must also accommodate her personal understanding, reaction and knowledge of war and trauma.  This presentation will discuss the emotional impact of extreme trauma on older adults and how later life cognitive or physical impairment can exacerbate the challenges.  Participants will explore the unique strengths and needs that aging survivors of trauma may encounter as they cope with the challenges of aging and discuss the ‘triggers’ within the healthcare context that may exacerbate their difficulties.  An experiential overview will be given with examples of services to aging Holocaust survivors and their families. 

This work will also be discussed in the context of aging war veterans and different ethnic and cultural groups that have relocated to America.  Survivors have faced many difficult obstacles in their lives, and as they approach old age it is important that their families, their communities and the people who care for them, hear their stories and ensure that their legacy be a dynamic and long lasting one. 

SPEAKER: Paula David- M.S.W, R.S.W, PhD, Professor, Faculty of, University of Toronto.

Paula David lectures in Gerontology and clinical practice at the Faculty of Social Work. She received her doctorate from the University of Toronto, Factor Inwentash Faculty of Social Work and the Collaborative Program in Aging at the Institute for the Life Course and Aging. Both her area of research and her front line work focus on issues related to aging Holocaust survivors and the impact of early life trauma on aging. She was Coordinator of the Holocaust Resource Project at Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care for over 20 years, and has worked extensively with Holocaust survivors, providing group work, individual counseling and program development. With a background in adult education and community organization, she has developed teaching modules for professional staff working with survivors of genocide and clinical issues of post-traumatic stress disorder.

RSVP required by February 8, 2011, limited space available. Call 214-269-1742-For more information contact Sharyn Fein at sharyn.applecare@gmail.com.

Sponsors:  Apple Care and Companion, Alpert Family and Children’s Services of Palm Beach, Florida, DAGS , Holocaust Memorial Center of Dallas, JCC of Dallas, Jewish Family Service, Texas Jewish Post, Town Village North Dallas, VistaCare Hospice, Waldman/Bros.