Education & Training
Educating Against Ageism provides aging and disability sensitivity training to employees, corporate officials, those working directly with older adults and/or people with disabilities as well as families of and those providing care to those individuals.
Customized Training
Training can be customized to fit the needs of anyone interested in learning about challenges facing older adults and people with disabilities.
Caregiver Training
Caregiver burnout is real. Providing interactive training allows caregivers to experience challenges. This creates more compassion and empathy, increasing the level of care provided.
Employee Training
Having a more knowledgeable employee provides a higher level of customer service. Stellar customer service is must in today's world.
What Will I Learn?
Aging and disability sensitivity training from Educating Against Ageism consists of an interactive, hands-on experience on common challenges older adults face as it relates to common aging ailments. In addition, students are informed on how to recognize and accommodate needs for those challenges. Students also are taught how to recognize changes in behavior as it relates to confusion and dementia. Learn how to call out ageism and ableism. Training allows students to become a part of the solution, not the problem.
Why Is This Important?
Our society is getting better at calling out racism and sexism, but what about ageism and ableism? Do we value our older adults like we should? Do we write them off as useless and burden on us and society? We can do better. We cannot all be the same race or sex, but one thing is for sure, we all are aging!