Quality Of Life: Eldercare Planning and Aging Gracefully

This is an educational program designed to help a person properly navigate the challenges of caring for elderly family members. The program also helps one make decisions on how to make plans for their own life. The program also helps one make decisions on the following subjects:

Financial Pre- Planning

Health Care Power of Attorney

Power of Attorney

Living Wills

Filial Responsibility

The Eldercare Planning and Aging Gracefully course is unique because it will help seniors identify how to age gracefully and manage aging more effectively. The course will also help children of a senior, friends and family who need to assist as a caregiver. 

The need for this course was inspired by my experiences as a Nursing Home Administrator observing individuals stressed when they were unexpectedly thrust into a healthcare crisis.  The crisis often results in a person needing short term stay or remain permanently due to health issues.  This is a four part course that gives information for seniors and children of seniors to begin a discussion or conversation prior to a crisis.

This conversation helps manage a healthcare crisis more effectively and helps with developing plans as one age.  Again, most individuals have not had experience with a nursing home placement and as one ages there are important things that a person should do.  This education series fulfills a need to educate and help with pre-planning.  If you are wondering who should take this course, the answer is any age group. 

The course helps seniors understand the many facets to aging gracefully.  Seniors will understand what they need to do to prepare financially so that they are assured to have a life plan that is consistent with goals that have been established.  The course will identify the important documents. In addition, the course will identify who should have access to your personal information and where this information should be kept. The children of seniors are also a group of individuals who should take the course; the course  will help them understand the complexities of assisting loved ones as they age.  In conclusion, this four part course will help seniors, the sandwich generation caught between taking care of loved ones and raising a family, or others who may face the responsibility of assisting someone as they age . Planning is important and this course will give you the information to effectively plan and age gracefully without having to take any tests, or have any written assignments.

 

About the Instructor

 

For over 35 years, Felton Wooten has been a licensed Nursing Home and Assistive Living Administrator. He also won the North Carolina Administrator of the Year award.  He is a native of Greensboro NC, an Eagle Boy Scout and a graduate of NC Central University.

Felton has created the Quality of Life Preparation for Aging Seminar to help family members, caretakers and home care professionals improve the overall level of care provided to the elderly.

Felton Wooten will help you  recognize how pre-planning is important, understand the various models of care, understand dementia and Alzheimer’s . Ultimately because of the experience of Felton a person will understand that with effective pre-planning, abuse, neglect and misappropriation of funds and assets can be curtailed. Educating the public of the proper steps to save thousands of dollars, by avoiding the many financial pitfalls associated with eldercare, has been a passion of Felton Wooten.

Felton Wooten presently serves on the Evergreens Foundation Board that awards grants to organizations that promote issues associated with eldercare, past Board Member of the R L and Margaret Wynn Memorial Scholarship fund, and presently a member of the Old North State Board of the Boy Scouts of America. In addition, Felton serves as the Member Manager of their family legacy farm where they raise prawn, vegetables in high tunnel greenhouses, oversees timber management, with the goal of improving poverty by creating jobs for the local community and addressing the needs of hunger in local communities. Felton Wooten resides in Greensboro NC USA, married and the father of two daughters.