Exploring Ethical Dilemmas: Difficult Conversations About Aging (Online)

There are many difficult issues and ethical dilemmas related to aging that call for thoughtful discussion. Although a single presentation cannot address all the issues, we can start the process through this shared exploration and learn from one another. What we anticipate we might do in a hypothetical situation can be very different from what we think, feel, and do when faced with the challenge. Listening to a wide range of perspectives better equips us to make decisions that reflect our sense of reason, ethics, and morality. Having conversations like this can ultimately be helpful when the times of crisis occur. Social worker and Society member Sandi Sacks leads.

This optional questionnaire (PDF) will help prepare for the discussion. Please consider filling it out beforehand and emailing it to to Sandi. All responses are confidential and will not be used with your name.

Sandi Sacks, LMSW has spent the past 45 years working as a licensed social worker with a specialty in the field of Aging. Her experience includes everything from bereavement counseling, Program Director of “Boomers” and “Older Adult” educational and recreational programs, facilitating support groups, teaching older adults, training Master level social workers, and creating and running intergenerational workshops and volunteer programs.

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What does one do when there’s no clearly defined ethical road to take? Exploring Ethical Dilemmas features speakers from a variety of backgrounds — medicine, law, business, science, education, the arts, social work, etc. — who share their experience and knowledge of ethical issues in those fields. Monthly, 3rd Monday.