Presented via Zoom.

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Join us Tuesday, December 10 at 1:30pm for a presentation by Sarah Michelle Chen, While your crystal ball may be broken, navigating aging involves looking ahead, learning about available resources, and adjusting as physical abilities or cognitive function change. This lecture will provide practical considerations that can be acted on now which can ease future stress surrounding uncomfortable decisions that need to be made for yourself, or for your family members.

This program will explore strategies for modifying living arrangements such as in-home services and long-term care, maintaining a safe home environment, as well as developing a “just in case” plan in order to help attendees prepare for the future.  

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Sarah Mitchell Chen is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker at Rush University Medical Center with more than 15 years of experience working as a clinician, program coordinator, and research team member. Sarah has spent her career providing care management in long-term care and ambulatory healthcare settings, where she works to address non-medical barriers to wellness and improve health outcomes for patients and care partners, focusing especially on individuals and families impacted by symptoms of various movement and neurodegenerative disorders as well as forms of dementia. As a result of her work with the Rush Movement Disorders Clinic’s Advanced Interdisciplinary Movement Disorders Supportive Care Clinic (AIMS), Sarah has completed advanced training and certification in palliative care with an emphasis on helping patients and care partners better understand their choices and preferences for medical care and non-medical care. Sarah earned a master’s degree from the University of Chicago Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice with a concentration in Older Adult Studies.