Mental health and our older adult population
This segment of the “Heads Up” webinar series features Courtney Stevens, PhD, MA, a licensed clinical psychologist at Dartmouth Health and assistant professor of psychiatry at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Ed Mahoney, PhD, a licensed psychotherapist with Bedford Counseling, an educator with the Mental Health Center of Greater Manchester, and co-founder of Storytelling: Remembering Together, and Phyllis Whitney, a patient family advisor for Dartmouth Health who shared her personal experiences as an older adult. Together, they explore the factors that create barriers to mental health for older adults, and best practices to help lower those barriers and create healthy opportunities. The webinar series is moderated by Dartmouth Health Senior Media Relations Manager Audra Burns.
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Additional Resources:
Dartmouth Health Aging Resource Center: https://www.dartmouth-hitchcock.org/aging-resource-center
Area Agencies on Aging: https://eldercare.acl.gov/Public/About/Aging_Network/AAA.aspx
UNH Extension Aging Well Resources: https://extension.unh.edu/health-well-being/healthy-people/aging-well
Osher Lifelong Learning Institute: https://osher.dartmouth.edu/
Storytelling: Remembering Together: https://www.eventkeeper.com/mars/xpages/M/MANCHCITY/ekp.cfm?curOrg=MANCHCITY&CFID=66219200&CFTOKEN=6e9cf01fe0641fbb-499C6FBB-D4AE-528A-5350D8DE8C62432F
To sign up, contact Susan Harmon at sh*****@**********nh.gov, or by phone at 603-624-6550 extension 7620
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