Date and Time: October 9, 2024 | 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm Eastern Time

Webinar Description:
Social prescribing enables healthcare providers to link older adults in Ontario to social and recreational opportunities to promote holistic health and wellbeing. Benefits of social prescribing include:

• Helping with social and community connections and expands the older adults network of peer support.
• Allowing healthcare providers to use their time more effectively by directing clients to sources that can address their non-medical needs.
• Potentially fewer visits to hospital emergency departments.
• Reducing barriers as older adults are empowered to identify their needs and values and to connect with what matters most to them.
• Providing hope that there is a way and a future.
• Results in potentially fewer issues for older adults, such as loneliness. 

Join this webinar if you are interested in the social prescribing movement in Ontario. Learn how to support Senior Active Living Centres across the province that are involved in the Links2Wellbeing Social Prescribing Project with the Older Adult Centres' Association of Ontario.

You will leave this webinar with a comprehensive understanding of social prescribing and the skills to effectively support such initiatives.

This webinar is presented by OSOT's Retired Members Team.

By the end of this webinar you will:

• Define social prescribing, its role in healthcare, and the benefits for older adults.
• Distinguish the components of a successful social prescribing program and how interested parties can be involved.
• Illustrate how volunteering can be integrated into social prescribing and demonstrate the benefits of volunteering for individuals and communities.
• Outline the steps to become involved in a social prescribing program and evaluate the impact of social prescribing.
• Discuss the importance of building partnerships between healthcare providers, community organizations, and volunteers.

Presenter:
As Links2Wellbeing: Social Prescribing for Older Adults Project Coordinator at the Older Adult Centres' Association of Ontario (OACAO), Dena Silverberg (she/her) is focused on ensuring that seniors have the opportunity to connect with each other and have access to engaging programs and services. Prior to joining OACAO, Dena was the Vice President of Health and Wellness at Better Living Health and Community Services. She worked there for 22 years, overseeing various departments including Senior Active Living Centres, Adult Day Programs, Exercise and Falls Programming, Social Work Services, Volunteer Services and Hospice and Palliative Care Services. Dena has spent her career in the not-for-profit sector and has a demonstrated track record in program development, building partnerships, and grant writing and management. Dena holds an Honours Bachelor of Arts in Therapeutic Recreation and Gerontology from the University of Waterloo and a Certificate in Community Engagement, Leadership and Development from TMU University. In her spare time, Dena is an avid fitness enthusiast, snowboarder, reader, knitter, and mother of two boys in university!

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