GEC seminars are aimed at improving and expanding geriatric healthcare, particularly for low-income, multi-ethnic and underserved older adult population. We offer innovative and interactive seminars on a wide range of issues, health conditions and service delivery models to health care professionals, academic leaders, and others who offer services to older adults. Topics for the day will be: Overview on Aging, Entitlements and Financial Issues, Health Literacy, Effective Communications/Sensory Changes with Aging, Mental Health and Aging, Hearing Aids workshop Participants in this seminar will be able to: • Identify some of the unique issues and challenges older people face. • Identify the demographic imperative to learn basic principles of geriatrics. • Recognize the 4 barrier domains to good communication with older adults: physical, cognitive, psychological, and socio-cultural. • List techniques to use to break the barriers to communication with older adults. • Tell how culture and health literacy affects health and end of life outcomes. • Apply tools for effective communication across cultural barriers at end of life. • Recall how cultural diversity may impede effective service delivery. • Identify how the presence of even one geriatric syndrome can affect an older person’s ability to meet new medical challenges. • Identify the most common behavioral health problems experienced by older adults. • Identify clinical and psychosocial treatments which aid this recovery of older adults with behavioral health need.