CE Credits: 8 Hours

Cost: $265 ($310 if registering within 7 days of class)

Instructors:  Stacey Anderson, LMT, PTA and Amanda Hooten, LMT

Stacey brings over 36 years of experience in healthcare, including a career as a Physical Therapist Assistant and the last 10 years as a Licensed Massage Therapist. Throughout her career, Stacey has consistently enjoyed working with the geriatric population, finding deep fulfillment in supporting older adults through all stages of aging.

Her clinical experience spans hospital settings, ICU, inpatient rehabilitation, outpatient care, and home health. While each setting shaped her skills, it was during her work in home health that her passion for geriatrics truly deepened, as she worked closely with seniors in their own environments and gained a deeper understanding of their daily challenges, needs, and goals.

Amanda is a 1994 graduate of Cumberland Institute with over 30 years of experience in massage therapy and education. Her background includes spa, chiropractic, hospital inpatient massage, private practice, and extensive work with geriatric clients in independent living facilities. Amanda served on the core faculty at Cumberland from 19995-2021, teaching Introduction to Massage, Swedish Massage, Pathology & Terminology and Advanced Techniques. She continues to teach as a continuing education provider. Amanda integrates Swedish, Craniosacral therapy, and NMT techniques with specialized knowledge of medications and contraindications in older adults.

Both Amanda and Stacey specialize in geriatric massage and integrate their strong foundation in anatomy, pathology, and movement into massage therapy sessions tailored for aging clients. Their teaching emphasizes safety, proper positioning, contraindications, pain management, and adapting techniques for clients with chronic conditions, mobility limitations, or complex medical histories. As well as, physiological, psychological and sociological aspects of aging. 

As continuing education instructors, Amanda and Stacey are committed to empowering massage therapists with practical, real-world skills and clinical confidence to provide effective, ethical, and compassionate care to senior clients.

Course Overview: 

This 8-hour course equips licensed massage therapists with the skills, knowledge, and confidence to provide safe, effective, and compassionate massage to geriatric clients in diverse settings including private practice, assisted living and hospice care environments. This class is a combination of lecture and hands-on practice.

Learning Objectives:

• Define geriatric massage and identify its unique goals
• Recognize physiological, psychological and social changes associated with aging
• Identify common medical conditions and medications that affect massage planning
• Demonstrate safe body mechanics, draping, positioning, and pressure adaptations
• Modify techniques for frail, wheelchair-bound, or bedridden clients
• Apply effective communication strategies for clients with sensory, cognitive, or mobility limitations
• Understand ethical and professional considerations when working in geriatric care settings
• Design individual treatment plans for older adult clients

Wear comfortable clothes to give and receive bodywork.  Please bring:  Massage sheets/blanket/face cradle cover and lubrication.  Massage tables provided. 

A lunch break will be taken midday.  You may bring your lunch, or eat at one of the many restaurants located nearby.  Please call Teresa Greene at 615-370-9794, to receive more information.