Keeping Seniors Safe Online

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Event Schedule
June 2, 2026  I  10:30–11:30 a.m. CT

Location
Virtual/Zoom

Event Description
This presentation explores the rapidly evolving landscape of online risks that disproportionately affect older adults, including scams, misinformation, and privacy breaches. It provides senior healthcare leaders with practical frameworks for educating patients, families, and staff about digital safety. Emphasis is placed on proactive prevention strategies and organizational policies that protect vulnerable seniors in increasingly digital care environments. 

Internet safety for seniors in residential settings has become a core patient safety and quality-of-care issue, not a peripheral technology concern. Older adults are disproportionately targeted by online fraud, identity theft, misinformation, and financial exploitation, risks that are amplified in  living environments where shared devices, public Wi-Fi, cognitive impairment, and social isolation are common. When these threats go unrecognized, the consequences extend beyond financial loss to include emotional distress, loss of autonomy, erosion of trust, and downstream health impacts that healthcare workers are often left to manage.

Objectives

  • Identify the increased vulnerability of older adults to digital and phone scams
  • Describe risk factors that increase vulnerability among seniors
  • Demonstrate effective teaching strategies for online safety
  • Apply healthcare roles in prevention and intervention and promote digital literacy and empowerment for residents

Speaker
Ingrid M. Provident Ed.D, OTR/L, FAOTA
, is a National Education Specialist, for Select Rehabilitation. Dr. Provident has held positions of Program coordinator, Academic Fieldwork Coordinator and Associate Professor at major Universities in Pittsburgh PA.

Ingrid is a highly engaging speaker who holds clinical degrees in Occupational Therapy and Educational Leadership.  She has worked in multiple practice settings with the adult and geriatric populations. Ingrid has been an educator in formal academic settings and presented in more than 90 state, national and international venues. Dr. Provident is trained and certified in Mindfulness,  Dementia Care and has facilitated multiple presentations on wellness, communication, and interventions for quality health care.  She is a published author and mentor with a passion for assisting in the development of professionals.

Continuing Education Information
Nursing Home Administrators:
1 contact hour is intended to meet the criteria established by the Iowa Board of Examiners for Nursing Home Administrators for participants who attend this event in its entirety. Partial credit for this event will not be granted. To receive contact hours or a certificate of attendance, you must attend the entire event.  Retain your certificate for four years.

Iowa Board of Nursing: 1 contact hour is intended to meet the criteria established by the Iowa Board of Nursing for participants who attend this event in its entirety. Partial credit for this event will not be granted. To receive contact hours or a certificate of attendance, you must attend the entire event.  Retain your certificate for four years.

Social Services: The event is designed to provide 1 contact hour, aligning with the criteria set by the Iowa Board of Examiners for Social Workers for participants who attend the entire event. Please note that partial credit will not be granted; full attendance is required to receive contact hours or a certificate of attendance.

For other long-term support and service provider professionals not listed above: Most licensure boards, credentialing agencies and professional organizations have processes that allow individuals to earn a certain number of CEUs for non-preapproved programs and/or to accommodate self-submission for approval of continuing education hours after the event takes place with proper documentation from the program sponsors. It is up to the discretion of the licensee to choose relevant sessions and self-report. Generic certificates of attendance will be provided.                                   

Registration & Other Information
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Prospective Member                $99  
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What’s Included
Registration fee includes digital handout, one connection to the live webinar and instructions for receiving CE credit/ attendance certificate.  A recording of this webinar is included in the registration fee (no CE credit/attendance certificate will be awarded when viewing the recording).

Cancellation/Refund Policy
There will be no refunds approved for this webinar. Registered attendees who miss the live webinar can request the recording following the webinar.

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For questions contact:   Dawn Balder
[email protected]
515-440-4630