Palliative Care Primer for Allied Health Workers

Learn what Palliative care is, how it compares with disease-modifying care and hospice care, and who may benefit. Understand the role of allied healthcare workers, including Community Health Workers, Emergency Medical Technicians, and other members of the primary care team.

Kupuna Legal Services

Mandated Reporter Training

Getting to Know Your Area Agency on Aging (AAA)

Get to know your Area Agency on Aging (AAA)! This is a valuable professional development opportunity for the aging network to better understand the services available through your AAA, the referral process, and eligibility.

Practicing Effective Person-Centered Communication

Effective communication is at the heart of good relationships, and person-centered communication strives to understand the client's needs, preferences, feelings, strengths, limitations, and social environment. In this seminar, Dr. Kevin Y. Kawamoto discusses barriers to good communication and how to identify and address them. The seminar also covers different types of communication, such as verbal, non-verbal, cultural, and environmental, as well as different types of communicators.

LGB&T Cultural Humility – Knowing Our Place

This training presented by Kunane Dreier and Maddalynn Sesepasara of the Hawai‘i Health and Harm Reduction Center is designed to increase knowledge and skills to effectively interact with LGB&T people, as well as support and provide affirming care and support.

Utilizing the unique viewpoints of Hawaiian and local cultures, this training aims to increase humility and capacity for understanding when engaging with some of our most vulnerable populations.

Supporting Families Through the Dementia Journey

In this session, Dr. Ritabelle Fernandes provides information on how you can better support families through the dementia journey. Topics include being an advocate with your primary care provider, connecting with home and community based services, and end of life care. At the end, she shares a plethora of resources available here in Hawai‘i to support kūpuna and their caregivers through this journey.

Brain Health, Early Detection, and Screening of Dementia

In this session, Dr. Ritabelle Fernandes of John A. Burns School of Medicine, Kalihi-Pālama Health Center, and Islands Hospice  provides practical information on helping clients maintain brain health and the importance of early detection. Participants recieved a strong orientiation on what dementia is, its risk factors, and other key information to best support kūpuna and their loved ones. She will provides a brief training on the administration of a simple cognitive screening tool called the AD8.

Community Health Workers & Aging

Community Health Workers (CHWs) are nationally recognized frontline public health workers who are trusted members of and/or have a uniquely close understanding of the community they serve.

Hear from Kamailei Ynigues and Chauncey Hatico who will help us explore the critical role that Community Health Workers (or CHWs) play in supporting healthy aging in Hawai‘i.