Elevate Eldercare
241 episodes - English - Latest episode: 3 days ago -Let’s Elevate Eldercare Together!
Every great eldercare community has a unique story, and there are many paths toward providing high-quality, person-directed services and supports for older adults. That’s why we launched “Elevate Eldercare”: to bring together thought leaders, activists, and advocates in the field of aging services and give them a space where thoughtful discourse and diverse perspectives flow freely.
Join Susan Ryan, Alex Spanko, and other GHP team members every Wednesday for enlightening, provocative, and sometimes uncomfortable conversations. Together, the hosts and guests explore the opportunities and challenges in building a new, dignified eldercare system through the lens of the Green House and Pioneer models.
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Improving Nursing Home Care with Transparent Data
April 17, 2024 04:00 - 39 minutes - 54.8 MBYou can’t fix what you can’t measure, and for too many years, advocates and officials have attempted to reform the nursing home system without an accurate accounting of multiple metrics – including the flow of money and the track records of owners. CFI strategic advisor Anne Montgomery joins the podcast to discuss her efforts to bring greater transparency to the long-term care landscape, as well as her advocacy for the EINSTEIN Option – a comprehensive federal pilot program that would supp...
Opening Creative Doors for People Living in LTC
April 10, 2024 04:00 - 52 minutes - 72.6 MBWhen Jennilie Brewster first started inquiring about volunteering at the Coler nursing campus on New York City’s Roosevelt Island, she never imagined that her work with the residents would have a national impact. Brewster – a writer, painter, and film producer – joins the podcast to discuss her work with OPEN DOORS NYC and the Reality Poets, a group of younger men of color, each affected by gun violence, who all found themselves living at Coler. What started as a powerful creative pursuit ...
Balancing Risk, Responsibility, and Reward with Aging Tech: Part II
April 03, 2024 04:00 - 58 minutes - 80.8 MBThe topic of responsibly integrating technology into eldercare communities is so rich and complex that we needed two episodes with Joe Velderman, vice president of innovation at Cypress Living in Fort Myers, Fla. to capture it all. Velderman returns to dive into the specific tech solutions that his organization has adopted across its life plan community, Cypress Cove, as well as its commitment to incorporating the resident voice into its technology decisions – and the role he sees technolo...
Tackling Diversity and Inclusion on All Fronts
March 27, 2024 04:00 - 52 minutes - 72.3 MBMarvell Adams, Jr. not only talks the talk when it comes to fostering diversity, equity, and inclusion in eldercare – he walks the walk, holding multiple roles across the eldercare spectrum where he brings people of all ages, races, socioeconomic backgrounds, and points of view together to move the sector forward. Adams, who serves on the Center for Innovation board as treasurer, joins the podcast to discuss his work with his own consulting firm, W Lawson, and its Longevity + Inclusion All...
Equipping Solo Agers for Success
March 20, 2024 04:00 - 56 minutes - 77.2 MBReminiscent of the ageist discourse around the “silver tsunami,” the concept of people aging without the support of children or a spouse – once referred to as “elder orphans” – is far too often discussed as a problem, and not a wonderful opportunity to enjoy a new phase of life with friends, neighbors, and other people who bring us joy. Sara Geber helped to popularize the term “solo agers” to describe this cohort of older people, and she joins the podcast today to discuss the ways that peo...
Building New Frameworks to Tackle Racial Inequality in Eldercare
March 13, 2024 04:00 - 53 minutes - 73.5 MBThe idea that structural racism has a direct impact on all facets of American life – including the experiences of elders in care settings – shouldn’t be a controversial statement in 2024, but far too often, the question of equity and race-conscious policymaking gets wrapped up into a broader political discourse. Shekinah Fashaw-Walters, an assistant professor at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health, joins the podcast to discuss her framework for directly and bluntly addressi...
Remembering Naomi Feil, a Pioneer of Dignified Dementia Care
March 06, 2024 05:00 - 53 minutes - 73.6 MBNaomi Feil, who originally developed the Validation method of supporting and communicating with people living with dementia, died this past December 24 at the age of 91. This week, we’re celebrating Naomi’s life with her daughter – and fellow champion for the dignity of people living with dementia – Vicki de Klerk-Rubin, executive director of the Validation Training Institute. Join us for a fascinating conversation about Naomi’s life, including her early-life escape from Nazi Germany, he...
Finding the Will to Change Systems and Champion Equity
February 28, 2024 05:00 - 53 minutes - 73.4 MBTetyana Shippee first became fascinated with the power of structural forces to shape individual lives as a grad student from Ukraine studying the sociology of addiction in the United States. That academic interest soon expanded into gerontology and elder issues – including a two-year stint living in a continuing care retirement community as part of her studies. Shippee, now a professor at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health and the associate director for research at the Cen...
Balancing Risk, Responsibility, and Reward with Aging Tech
February 21, 2024 05:00 - 49 minutes - 68.2 MBArtificial intelligence is the tech buzzword of the moment, but as eldercare providers know, implementing any technology in the aging space comes with its own unique set of concerns – even solutions that don’t go as far as generating complex written narratives or autonomously analyzing resident data. At Cypress Living, a senior living and home health provider in Fort Myers, Fla., VP of innovation Joe Velderman works to strike the right balance between embracing new technology and maintaini...
Banding Together to Protect Empowering, Non-Profit Care
February 14, 2024 05:00 - 51 minutes - 70.8 MBAs non-profit nursing home operators continue to shutter their doors and cede ground to for-profits, one organization in New England is helping mission-driven organizations honor their unique legacies while providing vital, centralized logistical support. Legacy Lifecare chief philanthropy officer/founding executive Barry Berman and chief operating officer Betsy Mullen join the podcast to talk about their growing network of non-profit providers, as well as their incredible work at the Leon...
Incubating Innovations from Ideas to Practice
February 07, 2024 05:00 - 53 minutes - 73.7 MBIndividuals and companies frequently develop new solutions to make life easier for elders and caregivers, but not all of them have what it takes to actually make the jump from theory to widespread practice. In Australia, that’s where ARIIA – Aged Care Research & Industry Innovation Australia – comes in. Since 2021, ARIIA has funded a host of projects to test a range of technological innovations, workforce processes, and service delivery models, all with the goal of helping the best solutio...
Building Safe, Empowering Spaces for Family Caregivers
January 31, 2024 05:00 - 53 minutes - 73.7 MBIn an eldercare field that’s populated with unseen and unsung heroes, family members of people living with dementia can often feel the most isolated and underrepresented. In the Greater Manchester area of the United Kingdom, Empowered Conversations creates safe, brave spaces for small cohorts of people on the caregiving journey to take a step away from their day-to-day stresses and struggles. By providing new skills and a non-judgmental forum for caregivers to openly sharetheir emotions, t...
Fostering Creativity, Growth, and Fulfillment in Nursing Homes
January 24, 2024 05:00 - 33 minutes - 47.3 MBFar too often, people – even well-meaning folks who work in the field – fail to see nursing home residents as humans capable of the same growth, creativity, and fulfillment as people living in private homes. In fact, this ageism and ableism is a major reason why our imagination around reforming communal care settings is so narrowly focused on individual health metrics, and not overall wellbeing. Andres “Jay” Molina is living proof that one’s life as a productive, curious human doesn’t end ...
Diversify the Perspectives, Reimagine the Care
January 17, 2024 05:00 - 1 hour - 58.5 MBAs eldercare CEOs and women of color, Anita Holt and Frances Salinas are relative rarities in a sector that’s supposed to serve people of all races and backgrounds equally. They join the podcast this week to discuss their work at their respective communities – Holt at The Forest at Duke in Durham, N.C. and Salinas at Wesley Willows in Rockford, Ill. – and the various ways that emphasizing diversity has improved both care and the workforce. Holt and Salinas remind us that diversity is abo...
Revisiting – and Re-Energizing – Teaching Nursing Homes
January 10, 2024 05:00 - 56 minutes - 78.2 MBRevisiting the Teaching Nursing Home was designed to pair Pennsylvania nursing homes with area schools of nursing, introducing up-and-coming nurses to careers in eldercare while also infusing age-friendly care practices into the communities’ operations. But according to Nancy Zionts, the primary investigator on the project – as well as the chief operating officer and chief program officer at the Pittsburgh-based Jewish Healthcare Foundation – the program went beyond the clinical, bringing ...
Predicting the Future of Eldercare Innovation
January 03, 2024 05:00 - 59 minutes - 81.9 MBRobert Kramer – the founder of think tank Nexus Insights, as well as the co-founder and former CEO of the National Investment Center for Seniors Housing & Care (NIC) – returns to “Elevate Eldercare” for another stimulating discussion on the big-picture future of eldercare. As providers and advocates focus on the individual issues facing the sector, such as persistent staffing shortages and new regulations, Kramer challenges everyone to think bigger about the types of services and supports ...
Highlights, Hardships, Hesitations, and Hope: 2023 in Review
December 27, 2023 05:00 - 44 minutes - 61.9 MBEvery December, we use the last “Elevate Eldercare” episode of the year to take stock of the previous 12 months and make some predictions for the year ahead. CFI logged substantial milestones in 2023: celebrating 20 years of Green House homes, taking the modelinternational with the opening of new homes in Australia, further integrating the GHP and Pioneer Network communities, and gathering the entire eldercare reform movement together in Pittsburgh for amemorable annual conference. But o...
Checking In with the Moving Forward Coalition
December 20, 2023 05:00 - 45 minutes - 62.7 MBThe National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine shook the eldercare world in April 2022 with a scathing report on the nation’s broken nursing home system. Less than two years later, the Moving Forward Nursing Home Quality Coalition – formed in the wake of the NASEM report to operationalize its conclusions – has made substantial progress in addressing various quality improvement goals. This week, we check back in with coalition chair Alice Bonner and director Isaac Longobard...
Finding Hope and Light in the Darkest of Times
December 13, 2023 05:00 - 58 minutes - 81.4 MBAs we navigate a holiday season set against the backdrop of global and domestic conflict, this 2021 interview with Dr. Edith Eger feels even more vital than ever. A psychologist and a Holocaust survivor, Dr. Eger has 96 years of direct experience with navigating troubled times – both for herself and in service of others – and her ability to find light in the darkness remains deeply inspiring. After enduring unimaginable cruelty as a Jewish teenager in Europe during World War II, she dedica...
Speaking Up for Nursing Home Residents of All Ages
December 06, 2023 05:00 - 42 minutes - 59.4 MBIt’s easy to forget that not all nursing home residents are elders – and Vincent Pierce is dedicated to making sure leaders, advocates, and the general public remember. Pierce, a resident of the Coler nursing community on Roosevelt Island in New York City, wears many hats. He’s the founder of Nursing Home Lives Matter, an advocacy group formed during the yearlong COVID lockdown that robbed him and his fellow Coler residents of connection and convivium. He’s a poet, musician, and music prod...
Creating “Unpretentious” Housing and Care for All Ages
November 29, 2023 05:00 - 49 minutes - 68.3 MB“Unpretentious” isn’t a word you see often in marketing materials for senior living communities, but it shows up several times in the description of Northaven Senior Living in Seattle. Darlene Storti, Northaven’s executive director, joins “Elevate Eldercare” to discuss this down-to-earth assisted and independent living community for lower- and moderate-income elders – as well as the organization’s plans to open the Nook, which will feature workforce housing with on-site early childhood car...
Gathering Around the Gratitude Table 2023
November 22, 2023 05:00 - 51 minutes - 71.7 MBEach Thanksgiving, “Elevate Eldercare” centers gratitude by handing the mic over to the people who make Green House homes such great places to live. This year, we’re headed out west to Wyoming to meet three team members from Green House Living for Sheridan: licensed practical nurse Kiara Charlson, HR manager and education coordinator Jon Lanning, and Shahbaz Necia Reynolds. Through their stories, you’ll learn why caregiving isn’t “unskilled labor” or an entry-level job – it’s a dynamic, re...
Cross-Pollination: Sharing Person-Directed Practices Across Silos
November 15, 2023 05:00 - 50 minutes - 70.1 MBStacey Bergmann joined the Center for Innovation this month as the new director of network and community relations – tasked with serving as the main liaison between the national organization and our local-level Green House Project and Pioneer Network partners – and today she joins the podcast to discuss her career, passions, and vision for the future of eldercare. Bergmann, an advanced practice certified therapeutic recreation specialist and dementia care consultant, has spent more than 20...
Probing the Incentives that Shape Eldercare
November 08, 2023 05:00 - 56 minutes - 78.8 MBBrian McGarry’s research at the University of Rochester has focused on the ways that financial and economic factors affect care in nursing homes — a particularly vital topic as the sector continues to debate a contentious proposed staffing mandate, which could have a significant impact on providers in the years to come. McGarry joins CFI’s Alex Spanko for a discussion on the ways that incentives — sometimes intentionally, and sometimes unintentionally — affect quality and satisfaction in n...
Surviving vs. Thriving: Training for Long-Term Success
November 01, 2023 04:00 - 56 minutes - 78.1 MBFor the last three years, many eldercare organizations haven’t had the ability to truly thrive, with leaders focused squarely on surviving the many challenges facing providers up and down the care continuum. But as we head toward the end of another year, it’s a good time to take stock and make plans for the year ahead — with an eye toward moving beyond merely surviving and reaching a place where both organizations and individual workers can truly thrive. Join CFI’s education experts Marl...
Reframing Nursing Home Reform as a Housing Issue
October 25, 2023 04:00 - 42 minutes - 58.4 MBIn both the public and policymaker imagination, nursing home reform is strictly a health care issue, the domain of state health departments and the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). But the prevalence of subpar nursing homes — and lack of empowering, person-directed alternatives to an aging long-term care infrastructure — is just as much the result of housing policy as health care regulations. Well-known LTC researcher David Grabowski of Harvard University returns to ...
The Heart and Soul of Person-Directed Living
October 18, 2023 04:00 - 35 minutes - 49.8 MBDavid Simpson is an accomplished musician who’s been singing since the age of 12, performing alongside music legends like the Staples Singers, Dionne Warwick, and the Drifters. He’s a visual artist who uses his drawings and paintings to lift others’ spirits and push himself to improve his craft. He’s a father, a sibling, and heart transplant recipient. And he’s a resident of the Thome Rivertown neighborhood, a unique full-continuum care community in the heart of Detroit that combines afforda...
Envisioning an Eldercare System Beyond Nursing Homes
October 11, 2023 04:00 - 50 minutes - 58.8 MBThe discourse around improving the eldercare landscape tends to focus on narrow, discrete metrics: What’s the correct number of nursing home staff hours per day? How can we reduce rehospitalizations? What types of services can be provided in the home most efficiently? Scott Townsley, professor at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County’s Erickson School of Aging Studiers and a longtime eldercare leader, recently challenged a group of industry executives to go beyond the silos and buil...
Architecture as a Verb: Creating Human-Centered Aging Spaces
October 04, 2023 04:00 - 1 hour - 73 MBBiophilic design – incorporating nature into the built environment – has grown in popularity in recent years, but the term itself may still seem daunting and strange, especially in an eldercare space where new development of nursing homes is exceedingly rare. Dr. Tuwanda Green, an adjunct instructor at Virginia Tech with more than 30 years of architectural experience, joins the podcast to discuss biophilic design as the process of creating human-centered spaces for all ages. The physical e...
Finding Creative – and Social – Solutions to Top Eldercare Issues
September 27, 2023 04:00 - 57 minutes - 66 MBFaced with the workforce issues plaguing the entire eldercare sector, Goodwin Living in Northern Virginia developed a citizenship assistance program for its immigrant employees – simultaneously boosting recruitment and retention while also providing a new social outlet for residents, who help their caregivers prepare for the citizenship exam. Looking for a way to help his mother respond to a diagnosis of mild cognitive impairment, Goodwin Living CEO Rob Liebreich worked to develop the non-...
Rebuilding Trust After a Complete System Failure
September 20, 2023 04:00 - 53 minutes - 61.7 MBIn 2021, Dr. Samir Sinha was given a potentially daunting job: serving as the technical committee chair for a group tasked with establishing new, national long-term care standards in Canada in the wake of COVID-19’s devastation. Dr. Sinha, an internationally renowned geriatrician who serves as the Director of Geriatrics at Mount Sinai and the University Health Network Hospitals in Toronto, joins the podcast to discuss how he navigated the politics and logistics of reshaping an entire natio...
Empowering Elders to Build Age-Friendly Communities
September 13, 2023 04:00 - 55 minutes - 63.6 MBBuilding truly age-friendly communities starts with incorporating elders’ needs, wants, and goals into civic planning. As the executive director of Age-Friendly Greater Pittsburgh, Laura Poskin works across the city to build bridges between elders and the decision-makers who can help create accessible, integrated spaces for people of all ages and abilities – all while centering the opinions of older people who far too often don’t have a seat at the table. Poskin joins “Elevate Eldercare”...
Find an Adventure No Matter Your Age
September 06, 2023 04:00 - 48 minutes - 56.2 MBThis week on the show, we take a break from eldercare policy and best practices with a story of mindfulness and adventure. Previous guest Natalie Yates-Bolton – a senior lecturer in nursing at the University of Salford, Manchester in the United Kingdom – returns with her mother, Myra, for a conversation about their recent pilgrim walk through France. Natalie and Myra recently walked 32 miles along the Camino de Santiago, a pilgrimage route that people have traveled since the 10th century. ...
Building Empowered and Collaborative Nurse-CNA Teams
August 30, 2023 04:00 - 52 minutes - 60.1 MBThe relationship between nurses and certified nursing assistants (CNAs) in nursing homes can often be fraught with hierarchy and disputes over tasks and responsibilities, as well as the normal conflicts that arise in any workplace. To gain some insights into building collaborative care teams, we sat down with two leaders from an organization that’s excelled in that department: Presbyterian SeniorCare Network’s director of nursing Taylor McMahon and lead CNA Maggie Pernatozzi. These elder...
Support, Guidance, Advocacy: Rethinking the Ombudsman Role
August 23, 2023 04:00 - 48 minutes - 56.5 MBThe people who work in state long-term care ombudsman’s offices are unsung heroes for residents of nursing homes, assisted living communities, and other communal care settings, helping to amplify their voices when they aren’t being heard. This week on “Elevate Eldercare,” we dive into the present and future of the ombudsman role on both the macro and micro levels. First, former ombudsman Penny Cook – who recently departed from the Center for Innovation, where she served as chief culture of...
Designing New Ways to Age in Place
August 16, 2023 04:00 - 47 minutes - 54.9 MBWithin the world of aging services, there’s perhaps no more popular concept than “aging in place.” But what exactly does that mean, and how can we make that an attainable goal for most people? To help answer that question, we turned to Christine Foster, an interior designer with a specific focus on developing new strategies and models to help elders age in place – whether that’s in their own existing homes, or new communal care settings designed to bridge the gaps betweenliterally aging in...
A Destination, Not a Regret: Nursing Homes as Community Hubs
August 09, 2023 04:00 - 48 minutes - 56.2 MBoe Carella has a bold prescription for the future of eldercare, starting with reimagining nursing homes as hubs for entire communities. Instead of looking for ways to iterate on the institutional nursing home, such as through assisted and independent living, Carella challenges the sector to imagine a future where people actually want to move into a nursing home level of care because that’s where the action is – friends, family, and the wider community gathering in places where people recei...
Enshrining Eldercare as a Civil and Human Right
August 02, 2023 04:00 - 50 minutes - 58.6 MBChristopher Laxton recently retired after a 40-year career in eldercare, including the last 10 at the helm of AMDA – The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine. He joins “Elevate Eldercare” to discuss his personal definition of retirement, reframing aging in the United States, and creating a world where eldercare – and health care writ large – is a baseline human right for all people. In this wide-ranging and provocative interview with Penny Cook, Laxton calls for universal hea...
Learning from the Past to Build a Whole-Person Health System
July 26, 2023 04:00 - 58 minutes - 67.1 MBWhen Georgetown University formed its School of Health last year, college officials deliberately left out the word “public” from the name – not as a slight against the profession, as dean Christopher King explains, but to indicate an emphasis on overall population health and wellbeing, not just traditional public-health initiatives like clean water and road safety. King joins the podcast to discuss the interconnected non-medical factors that determine the wildly disparate health outcomes i...
Building Palliative Care Communities – Right from an App
July 19, 2023 04:00 - 1 hour - 78.4 MBWhile researching ways to improve the end-of-life experience as part of her PhD work, Andrea Grindrod discovered something interesting: People are almost always willing to help others experiencing the death of a loved one, but rarely wanted to ask for that help themselves. So Grindrod – who has personal experience dealing with end-of-life care for both her mother-in-law and husband – developed a suite of resources to break down the taboos about death and dying. The Healthy End of Life Prog...
Bridging the Gap Between Health and Tech
July 12, 2023 04:00 - 52 minutes - 61.1 MBAs a physician with an MBA and a Silicon Valley programming background, Vipan Nikore has a rare perspective on the world of health technology. Nikore, co-founder and CEO of elder tech company Homecare Hub, joins “Elevate Eldercare” to discuss the gaps that exist between health care providers and the companies that create health-focused technology – as well as some potential bridges across those divides. From electronic health records to remote patient monitoring to telehealth, these adva...
Celebrating 200 Episodes of Elevate Eldercare
July 05, 2023 04:00 - 54 minutes - 62.5 MBJoin the Green House-Pioneer team for the celebratory 200th episode of “Elevate Eldercare.” What started as a pandemic-era project to stay connected with long-term care providers during extended lockdowns has evolved into a platform for voices across the care continuum. Alex Spanko moderates this conversation with the leaders who have hosted most episodes of the series – Center for Innovation CEO Susan Ryan, CFI chief learning officer Marla DeVries, and CFI chief culture officer Penny C...
Using Tech to Kickstart Person-Directed Care in LTC
June 28, 2023 04:00 - 50 minutes - 58.8 MBLong-term care is notorious for lagging behind other parts of the health care continuum – including hospitals and doctors’ offices – in the adoption of technology. As co-chairs of a Moving Forward Coalition subcommittee on health information technology, Gregory Alexander and Terrence O’Malley are working to change that. Alexander, the Helen Young alumni professor at Columbia University, and O’Malley – a retired geriatrician and corresponding faculty at Harvard Medical School – joined the ...
Fighting the ‘Demographic Drought’ with Diversity, Dollars
June 21, 2023 04:00 - 56 minutes - 65.6 MBUnder Jeannee Parker Martin’s leadership, LeadingAge California has achieved some remarkable workforce development numbers, graduating more than 1,000 students from a CNA and home health aide training program – funded by a generous $25 million state grant – in its first year alone. While not every state has California’s budget surplus, dollars are only part of the equation. The California example provides a blueprint for how other states can use a combination of incentives, creative outrea...
Using Data to Break Stereotypes Around Aging
June 14, 2023 04:00 - 50 minutes - 58.4 MBIn his years marketing major brands like Gillette, Pepsi, and Dannon, Jeff Weiss never encountered any push to pitch products to consumers over the age of 55. Then, once he turned 55 himself, he realized that he didn’t feel like a different person just because he crossed an age milestone – he was still himself, with all the same evolving sets of desires, goals, and needs as people younger than 55. At Age of Majority, the marketing and research firm where he serves as CEO, Weiss seeks to br...
‘You Made Me Feel Relevant’: Telling Elders’ Tales on the Road
June 07, 2023 04:00 - 1 hour - 71 MBWhen Jack York first started bringing computers into senior living communities in the 1990s, he never could have imagined the ways elders use technology to stay connected with loved ones and their interests today – particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic. But even back then, when PCs took up entire desks and internet connections required a landline, the goal was the same as it is now: keeping elders in touch with the people and ideas that give them joy and fulfillment. York joins the ...
From Aging in Place to Aging in the Right Place
May 31, 2023 04:00 - 58 minutes - 67.1 MBIn the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the concept of aging in place – already the overwhelming preference for most people – received more media and political attention than ever before. But Ryan Frederick believes that the phrase, while well-meaning, is too passive and restrictive, implying that aging is something that happens to people with no agency of their own. Frederick, the founder and CEO of Here – a consulting firm aimed at helping individuals and organizations adapt to a world w...
Prioritizing Emotional Safety in Long-Term Care
May 24, 2023 04:00 - 46 minutes - 53.1 MBThe traditional nursing home took its design and operational cues from hospitals – a setting defined by its focus on physical health over all other considerations. Since the late 1970s, Planetree International has worked to infuse humanity back into hospitals and, increasingly, health care settings of all kinds. In the beginning, that meant fighting a culture where visitors had strict time limits and patients weren’t even allowed to review their own medical files. Today, Planetree’s work e...
Moving Forward with Real LTC Workforce Solutions
May 17, 2023 04:00 - 42 minutes - 49.3 MBLast year, the groundbreaking NASEM report on nursing home quality laid out a host of recommendations for improving the broken long-term care system in the U.S. While none of those suggestions is necessarily more important than the others, the topic of improving the LTC workforce is probably the one garnering the most attention from providers and policymakers. This week on the podcast, Dr. Kezia Scales and Dr. Jasmine Travers – the co-chairs of the Moving Forward Nursing Home Quality Coali...
The Case for Compassion in Eldercare and Beyond
May 10, 2023 04:00 - 37 minutes - 43.9 MBEldercare – and U.S. health care writ large – too often is a cold, impersonal experience for the people both giving and receiving care, as ever-increasing demands for efficiency and profit turn an intimate experience into boxes to check and line items on balance sheets. Dr. Stephen Trzeciak, chief of medicine at Cooper University Health Care and co-author of the book “Compassionomics,” seeks to change that with a simple yet bold assertion: Compassion for others in health care isn’t just go...