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When
10:00 AM Pacific
11:00 AM Pacific

Presented by ASA’s Healthcare and Aging Network (HAN)

ASA Members: Register now for FREE

Not a Member? Join ASA or register for this event for $49

Includes complimentary CE credits*

Chronic pain, coupled with alcohol and opioid addiction among older adults threatens life and quality of life. Through a bio-psychosocial context, this web seminar will explore how solutions may become the problem. Multi-dimensional, non-opioid treatment is the future of humane and authentic recovery. This web seminar will present new insight and effective tools for aging care, to help Aging Life Care professionals to evaluate the presence of opioid and-or alcohol addiction, and support addiction recovery and humane pain management for holistic, meaningful life with healthy function for older adults.  

Participants in this web seminar will be able to:

  • Explain the challenges of older adult opioid and alcohol addiction in the context of ethical, multi-dimensional treatment, which effectively and humanely treats chronic pain and substance use disorder;
  • List ways that the patient’s relationship with pain affects pain sensation and quality of life, and how opioids for pain are ineffective over time in all dimensions; and,
  • Describe the generational, relational and co-morbidity aspects of older adult opioid and alcohol addiction, and effective interventions and collaborative long-term solutions.

Presenters:

 

Deb Lynskey Lake, MSW, is clinical director at Hanley Center at Origins, and has worked with people who struggle with substance use and mental health conditions since 1996. In 2007, she trained at The Harvard School of Medicine’s Division on Addiction and was certified as an addiction specialist. 

 

 

 

John Dyben, Lynskey Lake, DHSc, MCAP, CMHP, is chief clinical officer and spirituality director at Origins Behavioral HealthCare and leads the pioneering clinical development of baby boomer and older adult programs at Hanley Center.