Latest Greenhouseproject Podcast Episodes
Rebuilding Trust After a Complete System Failure
Elevate Eldercare - September 20, 2023 04:00 - 53 minutesIn 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...
Empowering Elders to Build Age-Friendly Communities
Elevate Eldercare - September 13, 2023 04:00 - 55 minutesBuilding 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 ac...
Find an Adventure No Matter Your Age
Elevate Eldercare - September 06, 2023 04:00 - 48 minutesThis 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 conv...
Building Empowered and Collaborative Nurse-CNA Teams
Elevate Eldercare - August 30, 2023 04:00 - 52 minutesThe 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, ...
Support, Guidance, Advocacy: Rethinking the Ombudsman Role
Elevate Eldercare - August 23, 2023 04:00 - 48 minutesThe 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 pres...
Designing New Ways to Age in Place
Elevate Eldercare - August 16, 2023 04:00 - 47 minutesWithin 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 foc...
A Destination, Not a Regret: Nursing Homes as Community Hubs
Elevate Eldercare - August 09, 2023 04:00 - 48 minutesoe 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 im...
Enshrining Eldercare as a Civil and Human Right
Elevate Eldercare - August 02, 2023 04:00 - 50 minutesChristopher 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 cr...
Learning from the Past to Build a Whole-Person Health System
Elevate Eldercare - July 26, 2023 04:00 - 58 minutesWhen 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 ...
Building Palliative Care Communities – Right from an App
Elevate Eldercare - July 19, 2023 04:00 - 1 hourWhile 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 ha...
Bridging the Gap Between Health and Tech
Elevate Eldercare - July 12, 2023 04:00 - 52 minutesAs 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 a...
Celebrating 200 Episodes of Elevate Eldercare
Elevate Eldercare - July 05, 2023 04:00 - 54 minutesJoin 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 moderate...
Using Tech to Kickstart Person-Directed Care in LTC
Elevate Eldercare - June 28, 2023 04:00 - 50 minutesLong-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 ar...
Fighting the ‘Demographic Drought’ with Diversity, Dollars
Elevate Eldercare - June 21, 2023 04:00 - 56 minutesUnder 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 e...
Using Data to Break Stereotypes Around Aging
Elevate Eldercare - June 14, 2023 04:00 - 50 minutesIn 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 wa...
‘You Made Me Feel Relevant’: Telling Elders’ Tales on the Road
Elevate Eldercare - June 07, 2023 04:00 - 1 hourWhen 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...
From Aging in Place to Aging in the Right Place
Elevate Eldercare - May 31, 2023 04:00 - 58 minutesIn 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 th...
Prioritizing Emotional Safety in Long-Term Care
Elevate Eldercare - May 24, 2023 04:00 - 46 minutesThe 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 set...
Moving Forward with Real LTC Workforce Solutions
Elevate Eldercare - May 17, 2023 04:00 - 42 minutesLast 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...
The Case for Compassion in Eldercare and Beyond
Elevate Eldercare - May 10, 2023 04:00 - 37 minutesEldercare – 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, c...
Bringing Green House Homes to Australia
Elevate Eldercare - May 03, 2023 04:00 - 51 minutesWhen the Australia-based ACH Group agreed to become the first provider outside of the United States to fully implement the Green House model, CEO Frank Weits was taking the next step in his organization’s 70-year tradition of person-directed care – and building on his own experiences in eldercar...
Powering Workforce Recruitment, Retention with Data
Elevate Eldercare - April 26, 2023 04:00 - 49 minutesMore than 30 years ago, current Center for Innovation board chair Michele Holleran launched her eponymous data analytics firm with a focus that was considered revolutionary at the time: measuring the resident and staff satisfaction at senior living communities. Holleran’s mission is now far mo...
Inside the First Annual CFI Conference
Elevate Eldercare - April 19, 2023 04:00 - 41 minutesFor the first time ever, The Green House Project and Pioneer Network are hosting a single conference under the Center for Innovation banner, and we want the entire eldercare community to be there! In this week’s episode, hear CFI’s Penny Cook, Marla DeVries, and Joan Devine talk about the enga...
Abilities, Not Deficits: The Montessori Approach to Dementia Care
Elevate Eldercare - April 12, 2023 04:00 - 44 minutesThe Montessori approach to education empowers children to learn by doing activities that emphasize their innate abilities, not by rote or one-size-fits-all lessons. Inspired by his family’s own experiences with the Montessori method, Cameron Camp decided to apply those principles to dementia car...
Opening a Box of Memories: Exploring Dementia on Stage
Elevate Eldercare - April 05, 2023 04:00 - 51 minutesDuring the pandemic, the father-daughter team of Duncan and Erin McKellar teamed up – over Zoom, of course – to create a passion project based on their unique life experiences and skills. As both a psychiatrist specializing in the treatment of older people and the son of a woman, Lizzy, who wa...
BONUS: Introducing the Mission Possible Podcast
Elevate Eldercare - March 29, 2023 04:00 - 55 minutesThis week, please enjoy the first episode of our new podcast series, “Mission Possible,” produced in conjunction with the National Consumer Voice for Quality Long-Term Care and AMDA – The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine. Each week, you’ll hear in-depth interviews and conversat...
Founders’ Perspectives: Pioneer Network’s Rose Marie Fagan
Elevate Eldercare - March 22, 2023 04:00 - 50 minutesWhen Rose Marie Fagan first applied for a job as a nursing home ombudsman, she had no prior experience with long-term care or health care in general – but her status as an outsider almost immediately proved to be a much bigger asset than a liability. With her fresh eyes, Fagan was able to clea...
Inside Key Nursing Home Policy Discussions
Elevate Eldercare - March 15, 2023 04:00 - 45 minutesLori Smetanka of the National Consumer Voice for Quality Long-Term Care returns to “Elevate Eldercare” for an update on the key nursing home reform policies that she and other consumer advocates are watching most closely – including minimum staffing levels, ownership and investor transparency, a...
Founders’ Perspectives: Pioneer Network’s Barry Barkan
Elevate Eldercare - March 08, 2023 05:00 - 44 minutesBarry Barkan played a crucial role in the formation of Pioneer Network in 1997, but his experience in eldercare goes back 20 years before that, to a fateful morning of reflection in Live Oak Park in Berkeley, Calif. Barry joins “Elevate Eldercare” and longtime colleague Penny Cook to discuss ...
Bringing Nature to Elders, One Garden at a Time
Elevate Eldercare - March 01, 2023 05:00 - 47 minutesEven as a self-described “mediocre gardener,” Orla Concannon has brought the joys of nature to thousands of elders across the country – all by bringing the garden to them. Eldergrow, Concannon’s company, started out as a graduate school project but has since grown into a successful firm with n...
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