Live webinar air date: September 24, 2025, 1 p.m. Eastern time
Date
CE credits
1
Exam items
6
Series
APA Guidelines for Psychological Practice With Older Adults: A Practitioner’s Guide
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Description
This webinar will provide attendees with relevant information about assessment practices highlighted in the revised 2024 APA Guidelines for Psychological Practice With Older Adults. The presenter will highlight various types of assessment that providers should be familiar with when working with older adults, including assessment of functional abilities, mood, and cognition. Attendees will also become familiar with various methods of assessing older adults. Additional discussion will focus on the importance of cultural, language, and demographic factors and will include the consideration of psychometric factors and normative data in conducting cognitive assessment.
This program is part of the APA Guidelines for Psychological Practice With Older Adults: A Practitioner’s Guide series.
Learning objectives
- Describe three different types of assessments conducted with older adults.
- Identify the difference between cognitive screening and comprehensive neuropsychological assessment.
- List various factors that can impact the interpretation and outcome of cognitive assessments in older adults.
Presenter
Bonnie C. Sachs, PhD, ABPP
Sachs is a board-certified clinical neuropsychologist and professor in the Department of Neurology at Wake Forest University School of Medicine. She is also an investigator with the Wake Forest Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center. Sachs specializes in working with older adults with memory loss and cognitive disorders, including mild cognitive impairment, Alzheimer’s disease, and other forms of dementia. Sachs is a past member of APA’s Committee on Aging and a member of the 2024 workgroup for the revision of the APA Guidelines for Psychological Practice With Older Adults.
