Latest Greenhouseproject Podcast Episodes
Improving Nursing Home Care with Transparent Data
Elevate Eldercare - April 17, 2024 04:00 - 39 minutesYou 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 t...
Opening Creative Doors for People Living in LTC
Elevate Eldercare - April 10, 2024 04:00 - 52 minutesWhen 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 he...
Balancing Risk, Responsibility, and Reward with Aging Tech: Part II
Elevate Eldercare - April 03, 2024 04:00 - 58 minutesThe 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 tha...
Tackling Diversity and Inclusion on All Fronts
Elevate Eldercare - March 27, 2024 04:00 - 52 minutesMarvell 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 ...
Equipping Solo Agers for Success
Elevate Eldercare - March 20, 2024 04:00 - 56 minutesReminiscent 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, nei...
Building New Frameworks to Tackle Racial Inequality in Eldercare
Elevate Eldercare - March 13, 2024 04:00 - 53 minutesThe 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 pol...
Remembering Naomi Feil, a Pioneer of Dignified Dementia Care
Elevate Eldercare - March 06, 2024 05:00 - 53 minutesNaomi 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 deme...
Finding the Will to Change Systems and Champion Equity
Elevate Eldercare - February 28, 2024 05:00 - 53 minutesTetyana 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 livin...
Balancing Risk, Responsibility, and Reward with Aging Tech
Elevate Eldercare - February 21, 2024 05:00 - 49 minutesArtificial 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 ...
Banding Together to Protect Empowering, Non-Profit Care
Elevate Eldercare - February 14, 2024 05:00 - 51 minutesAs 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 off...
Incubating Innovations from Ideas to Practice
Elevate Eldercare - February 07, 2024 05:00 - 53 minutesIndividuals 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 –...
Building Safe, Empowering Spaces for Family Caregivers
Elevate Eldercare - January 31, 2024 05:00 - 53 minutesIn 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 ...
Fostering Creativity, Growth, and Fulfillment in Nursing Homes
Elevate Eldercare - January 24, 2024 05:00 - 33 minutesFar 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 ...
Diversify the Perspectives, Reimagine the Care
Elevate Eldercare - January 17, 2024 05:00 - 1 hourAs 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 Dur...
Revisiting – and Re-Energizing – Teaching Nursing Homes
Elevate Eldercare - January 10, 2024 05:00 - 56 minutesRevisiting 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 prima...
Predicting the Future of Eldercare Innovation
Elevate Eldercare - January 03, 2024 05:00 - 59 minutesRobert 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 adv...
Highlights, Hardships, Hesitations, and Hope: 2023 in Review
Elevate Eldercare - December 27, 2023 05:00 - 44 minutesEvery 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 ...
Checking In with the Moving Forward Coalition
Elevate Eldercare - December 20, 2023 05:00 - 45 minutesThe 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 oper...
Finding Hope and Light in the Darkest of Times
Elevate Eldercare - December 13, 2023 05:00 - 58 minutesAs 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 herse...
Speaking Up for Nursing Home Residents of All Ages
Elevate Eldercare - December 06, 2023 05:00 - 42 minutesIt’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 ...
Creating “Unpretentious” Housing and Care for All Ages
Elevate Eldercare - November 29, 2023 05:00 - 49 minutes“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 assis...
Gathering Around the Gratitude Table 2023
Elevate Eldercare - November 22, 2023 05:00 - 51 minutesEach 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 Charlso...
Cross-Pollination: Sharing Person-Directed Practices Across Silos
Elevate Eldercare - November 15, 2023 05:00 - 50 minutesStacey 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...
Probing the Incentives that Shape Eldercare
Elevate Eldercare - November 08, 2023 05:00 - 56 minutesBrian 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 provid...
Surviving vs. Thriving: Training for Long-Term Success
Elevate Eldercare - November 01, 2023 04:00 - 56 minutesFor 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...
Reframing Nursing Home Reform as a Housing Issue
Elevate Eldercare - October 25, 2023 04:00 - 42 minutesIn 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 alterna...
The Heart and Soul of Person-Directed Living
Elevate Eldercare - October 18, 2023 04:00 - 35 minutesDavid 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....
Envisioning an Eldercare System Beyond Nursing Homes
Elevate Eldercare - October 11, 2023 04:00 - 50 minutesThe 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...
Architecture as a Verb: Creating Human-Centered Aging Spaces
Elevate Eldercare - October 04, 2023 04:00 - 1 hourBiophilic 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 inst...
Finding Creative – and Social – Solutions to Top Eldercare Issues
Elevate Eldercare - September 27, 2023 04:00 - 57 minutesFaced 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 th...
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