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The 2007 National Positive Aging Conference: "Beyond the Cutting Edge"
You’re invited to attend:
The 2007 National Positive Aging Conference: Beyond the Cutting Edge
December 6-8, 2007
On the Campus of Eckerd College, St. Petersburg FL
Who should attend?
This conference is designed for professionals from a variety of fields who provide services and programs for older/mature adults. This conference will explore a wide variety of strengths based topics that enrich the lives of eager participants across the country and around the world. How are you planning to work effectively with the emerging Baby Boomer retiree cohort – some 76 million strong? Are you finding that current programs lack the luster of the past? Do you want to reenergize your services to attract a broader segment of your community to your programs? To answer these questions and more, the conference will concentrate on the following tracks or focus areas:
Thought leaders and practitioners from across the country and around the world will be presenting workshops, discussions, demonstrations, and experiential activities in each of the above focus areas, or “tracks”. Expected attendees include: life planning consultants; retirement coaches; area agency on aging executives and managers; lifelong learning program developers; social workers; financial planners; continuing educators; gerontologists; retirement community developers and planners; human resource professionals; elder law professionals; non-profit managers; health care professionals; psychologists; city/county/state department of aging personnel; employers; senior center managers; volunteer and advocacy organizations; arts organization specialists; Next Chapter programs; librarians, and more.
Benefits of attending:
Attendance at this premiere conference will give you the opportunity to:
- Learn about current and future trends in services and programs for mature adults.
- Take home new ideas to integrate into your programs.
- Network with program implementers and thought leaders from around the world.
- Hear and learn from program participants.
- Have hands on opportunities with new and emerging technology and program tools.
- Participate in targeted pre-conference programs on Life Planning, Lifelong Learning or a Planning Communities for the Future workshop.
- Develop contacts and relationships for future program information and development activities.
- Explore programming and partnering opportunities beyond your traditional boundaries-step outside the box!
- Increase your commitment to a philosophy of “Positive Aging” through association with national and international thought leaders and program developers.
Organizations Supporting the Conference:
AARP, Aegon, American Society on Aging, Gloria Cavanaugh Consulting, Civic Ventures, Eckerd College, Elderhostel, Generations United, National Center for Creative Aging, National Council on Aging, NRTA-AARP's Educator Community, Osher Lifelong Learning Institutes National Resource Center, Publix Supermarkets, Third Age Life Planning Network, Transamerica
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