Westchester County agencies will host workshops for the elderly and caregivers at “Successful Aging ”“ It”™s Everybody”™s Business,” a conference in Tarrytown this Thursday and Friday.
The conference at the Westchester Marriott Hotel is sponsored by the county Department of Senior Programs and Services and the Livable Communities Collaborative of the Westchester Public/Private Partnership for Aging Services. William M. Mooney Jr., CEO of the Westchester County Association, and Marsha Gordon, president and CEO of The Business Council of Westchester, will serve as event co-chairpersons.
The Thursday program, from 1 to 5 p.m., will focus on new technologies benefiting seniors. A series of workshops will explore systems that entrepreneurs are designing to better deliver health services, including Westchester County”™s Telehealth Intervention Programs for Seniors, or TIPS, initiative.
The featured speaker Thursday will be David A. Lindeman, CEO of the Center for Technology and Aging at the University of California. According to county officials, a recent study by Lindeman found that for each $1 invested in remote monitoring of an elderly person”™s health, as is done in the county TIPS program, up to $1.30 was saved in the first year. Savings were due to reduced hospitalization rates and fewer home care visits required for each patient.
The Friday program, from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., will feature a keynote address by Ken Dychtwald, a California-based business consultant and president-elect of the American Society on Aging, and 15 workshops on topics ranging from saving for retirement to coping with Alzheimer”™s disease.
Dychtwald is president and CEO of Age Wave, a company he founded in 1986 to advise Fortune 500 companies and government leaders on how to develop products and services for baby boomers and seniors. His talk will include examples of the marketing, health care, workforce and lifestyle changes that the “longevity revolution” is causing.
Dychtman says organizations will be challenged to transform their strategies over the next decade in areas such as marketing, branding, distribution and product development to benefit from the trends an aging population creates.
To register or to be a sponsor or exhibitor, visit regonline.com/successfulaging. The cost per person is $250 for both days, $100 for Thursday only or $150 for Friday only. Friday”™s program will include lunch and refreshments.
For more information about the conference, contact Annette Alve at ala3@westchestergov.com or 914- 813-6414, or visit westchestergov.com/seniors.
