ADHD2024

I was honored to be asked to be a facilitator at the ADHD2024 conference in Anaheim, California held November 14-16.

Pre-Conference Workshop | Finding Answers: Aging with ADHD

Overview

Connect by joining a discussion on aging with ADHD. Learn how the lives of older adults are affected by the challenges of living with their ADHD and the physical or other comorbidities and medications of aging itself. Learn from the personal experience of an older adult, who, with the help of her healthcare professionals after an Afib diagnosis at age seventy-five, found a path forward without ADHD and anxiety meds by harnessing the positives of her ADHD and some out-of-the-box thinking some fifteen years after she was diagnosed with it. Learn the ways older adults can realize more positive outcomes and how public awareness can be increased with additional and much-needed continuing research on aging with ADHD and the meds used to treat it and its commonly co-occurring disorders—anxiety, depression, and bipolar. And finally, learn how older adults, by sitting with all others at the ADHD table, can thrive, like their younger counterparts, from advancing technologies, new medications, and therapeutic strategies and treatments that are on the horizon.

Learning Objective

Attendees will be able to discuss and explain:
(1) how the lives of older adults are impacted by the challenges of living with their ADHD and the comorbidities and other medications of aging itself; and,
(2) How and why older adults can thrive from more research on “Aging with ADHD” and from advancing technologies, and new therapeutic strategies and treatments.

Bio

Heidi Eagleton was diagnosed with ADHD in her sixties, long after her high school guidance counselors said she wasn’t college material. Ignoring them, today she has an AA, BA, JD, and M.Arch. Heidi is a published author, writing the children’s book series.

“Maddie’s Tails,” drawing on her experience as a girl growing up with undiagnosed ADHD in a biography of her dog, Maddie, an Italian Spinone, told in Maddie’s own words. Her blogs, The Story of Aging with ADHD can be found at “Letterlife,”
https://www.letterlife.se/en/blog
and My Life as a Girl Growing Up with Undiagnosed ADHD on her website.
https://www.heidieagleton.com.

Contact me if you are interested in this talk for your group
https://www.heidieagleton.com/contact-us