B14 - Healthy Brain, Healthy Aging: Resilience and Wellbeing in Older Adults

Monday, May 1, 2023

4:15 PM – 5:15 PM

Location: 309, Level 2, LACC

None of the planners/faculty, unless otherwise noted, for this educational activity have relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.

Relias, LLC and National Council for Mental Wellbeing guarantee this educational conference is free from bias.

Workshop Presenter(s)

Helen Lavretsky, MD, MS (she/her/hers)

Director, Integrative Psychiatry; Director, Post-COVID Psychiatry
Jane and Terry Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Los Angeles, California

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Dilip Jeste, MD (he/him/his)

Former Senior Associate Dean for Healthy Aging and Senior Care and Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry and Neurosciences
University of California San Diego
La Jolla, California

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Find out how the definitions of resilience and wellbeing and neurobiological correlate and learn about the psychosocial determinants of mental health in older adults.

Learning Objectives:

Define resilience and wellbeing in aging adults
Examine the underlying neurobiological mechanisms of resilience.
Discuss social determinants of mental health in older adults.
The participants will examine the definition of wisdom and its specific components
The participants examine the neurobiology of wisdom