Every month, Stanford Parkinson’s Community Outreach produces a list of Parkinson’s-related webinars and virtual meetings with speakers. Here’s our July 2022 list.
What’s the difference between a webinar and a virtual meeting? A “webinar” has a handful of speakers at most, and attendees have both audio and video muted. A “virtual meeting” usually allows attendees to be seen and heard.
We recommend you register NOW for anything of interest. That way, if there’s a recording, as a registrant you’ll receive an email alerting you to the recording availability. Also, note that a few webinars have registration deadlines well in advance of the webinar dates.
Stanford Parkinson’s Community Outreach will try to attend as many of these events as possible and share our notes. Our notes about PD webinars are often posted here to our blog. We email our notes to the “Stanford PD Info” and “PD Caregivers” email lists, depending on the relevance to those audiences.
We publish to our blog an additional caregiver-specific webinar and virtual event list, which is sent to those on our “PD Caregivers” list. That list includes some events not included here since those events are for caregivers only.
If you are a caregiver to someone with PD, we encourage you to be added to our “PD Caregivers” email list.
Unless indicated, the webinar and virtual meetings listed below are:
- Times listed as PT. (We are based in California, after all.)
- One-hour in duration. We suggest you join five minutes before the official start-time. (Usually, the speaker talks for 30-40 minutes and there’s a question-and-answer session for the remaining time.)
- For a general audience. (Again, caregiver-specific events are on our other list.)
- Not focused on a single medication or single, branded treatment. (Those are excluded.)
- Free.
After that long preamble, here’s our list of PD-related webinars and virtual meetings in July 2022…
– Denise
Wednesday, July 6, 10am-11:30pm
Advanced Care Planning: Palliative Care, Hospice, and End-of-Life Decisions
Description:
Medical experts will explain palliative care, hospice services and resources for end-of-life decisions.
We are unclear if the webinar’s content is PD-specific.
Speaker: Martha Twaddle, MD, Northwestern Medicine Lake Forest Hospital
Host: Parkinson’s Foundation (PF)
This webinar will be posted on PF’s Past Wellness Wednesdays webpage
Monday, July 11, 4pm
A Discussion with Parkinson’s Care Partners
Description:
This webinar introduces attendees to three exceptional individuals who are care partners of people with Parkinson’s. They have a range of experiences at different stages of the disease. They will share their stories and expertise and answer questions about being a care partner. Part of the APDA’s “Dr. Gilbert Hosts” series.
Moderator: Rebecca Gilbert, MD, APDA
Speakers: Care partners Veronica, Greg, and Mario
Host: American Parkinson Disease Association (APDA)
This webinar will be posted to the Dr. Gilbert Hosts Playlist on the APDA YouTube channel
Wednesday, July 20, 8am
Using a Positive Approach (in Dementia Care)
Description:
Guided by Teepa Snow’s Positive Approach to Care, attendees will walk away with tools to aid in their caregiving for their loved one with dementia.
Speaker: Sheri Fairman, MSW
Host: Wellmed Caregiver Teleconnection
The webinar will be recorded and posted to the Caregiver Teleconnection website. Use the search box or click on “<<Previous Events” to find archived webinars and teleconferences.
Wednesday, July 20, 11am
“Winter Stars: An elderly mother, an aging son, and life’s final journey”
Description:
The speaker and author of Winter Stars was diagnosed with Parkinson’s in 2004 and soon after did something he’d never quite imagined: He moved in to take care of his 95-year-old mom. Winter Stars is the story of their decade-long caregiving odyssey, which lasted until his mother’s death at the age of 105. During this webinar, the author will sit down for an intimate discussion about his Parkinson’s, his mom, and his inspiring and heart-warming book.
Moderator: David Leventhal, Dance for PD
Speaker: Dave Iverson, journalist and author
Host: Davis Phinney Foundation (DPF)
Speaker bio and registration webpage
A recording of the webinar may be posted to the DPF YouTube channel
Tuesday, July 26, 9am
What New Family Caregivers Need to Know
Description:
New and even experienced family caregivers can feel overwhelmed by the difficult challenges of caring for others while still caring for themselves. The speaker will discuss nearly 50 years of family caregiving research to provide some answers on what helps and hurts family caregivers during the long caregiving years and how caregivers can best cope.
Speaker: Barry J. Jacobs, PsyD
Host: Wellmed Caregiver Teleconnection
The webinar will be recorded and posted to the Caregiver Teleconnection website. Use the search box or click on “<<Previous Events” to find archived webinars and teleconferences.
Thursday, July 28, 11am
High Conflict Relationships and Its Impact on You as a Caregiver
Description:
This workshop will discuss growing healthy relationships, understanding toxic relationships and clinically lay out for the listener plans of actions to prevent conflict or navigate the difficult situation more effectively.
Speaker: James Huysman, PsyD, LCSW
Host: Wellmed Caregiver Teleconnection
The webinar will be recorded and posted to the Caregiver Teleconnection website. Use the search box or click on “<<Previous Events” to find archived webinars and teleconferences.