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CERA Day 2024

In celebration of International Day of the Older Person, CERA will be hosting a full day of workshops, sessions, and a keynote speaker!

We're excited to invite you to attend our one-day, FREE event! CERA Day 2024 will be held on UFV Chilliwack campus on Oct 4 from 9:00am to 1:45pm. Refreshment and lunch will be generously provided by the Chilliwack ElderCollege in celebration of their 25th anniversary!

CERA Day offers presentations and workshops (free lunch and prizes too) for older adults living in our neighbouring communities of Abbotsford, Chilliwack, and Mission. Everyone 55+ is welcome to attend.

Registration is now FULL. If you'd like to be put on a waitlist, email CERA@ufv.ca.

PARKING: There will be a dedicated, complimentary parking lot for event attendees.

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
   
Time Session title
8:30 - 9:00am Registration 
9:00 - 9:15am Welcome to CERA Day 2024
9:20 - 10:00am Why Sociology? Training doctors, nurses, and paramedics
  Seated mindful movements
  Flipping stigma
  Fair - Community and health
10:10 - 10:50am Conspiracy theories: Fact or fiction
  Theatre for social connections
  Successful aging: Mastering stress reflexes
  Fair - Community and health
11:00 - 11:40am Minds together: Children & adults activity
  Aging through art
  Managing chronic pain
  Fair - Community and health
11:40am - 12:20pm Lunch & Fair
12:20 - 1:20pm Keynote speaker - Dr. Cindy Jardine
1:20 - 1:45pm Wrap-up, thank you's
1:45 - 2:30pm Campus tours (optional)

"It's cool to feel like I can see the window of nursing research and what it looks like. It can be more clinically based or really people-focused, but it kind of intersects because it is tying in sociology and other areas, but it’s still nursing."

Rosaley Klassen, Nursing