Beyond Resistance: Effective Strategies For Overcoming Resistance

Working with older adults offers many benefits, but it can also involve challenges and frustrations such as: physical limitations, cognitive impairments, changes in environment, loss of independence, as well as many others. As professionals attempt to alleviate or reduce the challenges that affect older adults by suggesting changes and solutions, resistance to change is often exhibited. While this is a normal response – how we deal with and attempt to resolve this resistance is the key element. You will learn about the roots of resistance in the elderly population – why are they resistant, what causes resistance – and how to overcome it. By acknowledging and learning to understand the reasons behind resistance, we can learn effective strategies and techniques to help our patients/clients improve their quality of life and well-being.

(Purchase of this product will include an Video & Audio recording and a PDF copy of the presentation.)

Presented by Amy Burfitt, Elder Care Consultant, LivHOME, Inc. and Shelley Lightfoot, Executive Director