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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...
Building a Circle of Care for Elders
Elevate Eldercare - February 22, 2023 05:00 - 50 minutesAs the president of the Point Roberts Circle of Care board, Galen Wood has a unique task in a unique place – providing services and supports for elders in one of the most secluded spots in the United States. The town of Point Roberts, Wash. is what geographers call a pene-exclave. Located at t...
Raised in Eldercare: The Story of a 16-Year-Old CNA
Elevate Eldercare - February 15, 2023 05:00 - 34 minutesHigh school junior Eli Grundy has been immersed in eldercare for as long as he can remember, thanks to his parents: One of his moms is the administrator of the Spearly Center, a unique skilled nursing community in Denver, and the other works for the Alzheimer’s Association. At age 12, Eli foll...
Art and Expression at Any Age
Elevate Eldercare - February 08, 2023 05:00 - 54 minutes“Elevate Eldercare” often welcomes academic researchers from across the aging field, but Anne Basting is the first English professor to sit down behind our mics. Basting is a firm believer in the power of art and creativity as a medium of communication and connection for people living with dem...
Reports to Results: Solutions for Real Change
Elevate Eldercare - February 01, 2023 05:00 - 49 minutesThe new year year kicked off with another report analyzing the failures of the nursing home system during COVID-19, this time from the HHS Office of the Inspector General. But while understanding the mistakes of the past is important, the time for retrospective reports has long since passed – an...
Leadership at Play: Inside the Evolution of a Green House Community
Elevate Eldercare - January 25, 2023 05:00 - 57 minutesEvery Green House community is different, from the people who call it home to the surrounding neighborhood and landscape. At Londonderry Village in Palmyra, Pa., outside of Hershey, the Green House homes come with the wafting smell of chocolate, an intergenerational play park, and people-power...
Taking Action with the Moving Forward Coalition
Elevate Eldercare - January 18, 2023 05:00 - 42 minutesThe Moving Forward Coalition launched with a clear but ambitious goal: Operationalize the host of recommendations from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s (NASEM) 2022 report on the state of nursing home care. This week, we welcome Moving Forward leaders Alice Bonne...
2023 Eldercare Reform Outlook
Elevate Eldercare - January 11, 2023 05:00 - 36 minutesThe past year brought significant momentum for real eldercare reform, and the year ahead promises even more progress toward our goal of overhauling the long-term care system in the U.S. and abroad. We’ve gathered a group of CFI leaders – CEO Susan Ryan, chief culture officer Penny Cook, strate...
Rethinking Geriatrics for a Person-Centered Future
Elevate Eldercare - January 04, 2023 05:00 - 40 minutesDr. Michael Wasserman’s unique combination of professional experience makes him one of the most incisive voices in the long-term care reform space: As both a trained geriatrician and the former leader of California’s largest nursing home chain, Wasserman can speak to both the medical and financi...
Looking Back – and Forward – After a Year of Change
Elevate Eldercare - December 28, 2022 05:00 - 43 minutesIt’s been a momentous year for The Green House Project and Pioneer Network, as the two organizations formally united under the new Center for Innovation banner. Three CFI leaders – CEO Susan Ryan, chief culture officer Penny Cook, and chief learning officer Marla DeVries – look back on a year ...
Embracing Dementia as a Stage of Life
Elevate Eldercare - December 21, 2022 05:00 - 55 minutesPart of the enduring stigma surrounding dementia is the collective misconception that a diagnosis means the end of someone’s life – or at least the end of a person’s ability to contribute to society. Bobby Redman turns that notion on its head, living on her own and serving as an advocate for t...
Fighting for Rick: A Dementia Caregiver’s Story
Elevate Eldercare - December 14, 2022 05:00 - 56 minutesIn Lynne Sewell’s telling, her husband Rick seems almost larger than life, trotting the globe with his family as his job in technology took him from their home in Australia to Europe, Asia, and North America – winning friends and professional admiration at every stop along the way. But when Ri...
Bringing Social Design to Eldercare and Beyond
Elevate Eldercare - December 07, 2022 05:00 - 47 minutesArchitect Nick Seemann joins the podcast to discuss social architecture and design – the idea that people and physical spaces interact to create each environment – in eldercare and beyond. The founder and managing director of the Australia-based Constructive Dialogue Architects, Seemann has a ...
Building an ‘Unstoppable’ Coalition for Change in LTC
Elevate Eldercare - November 30, 2022 05:00 - 48 minutesDr. Samir Sinha has emerged as a leading voice for eldercare improvement in Canada, and he joins CFI’s Penny Cook to discuss the lessons that leaders can learn from each other across the globe. Sinha argues that there’s a core misconception in international analyses of countries, such as Denma...
Gathering Around the Gratitude Table: St. John’s
Elevate Eldercare - November 23, 2022 05:00 - 1 hourA Thanksgiving tradition continues as we gather around a virtual gratitude table with the folks who make Green House homes work. This year, GHP’s Susan Ryan and Rebecca Priest welcome a trio of employees from St. John’s Senior Services in Rochester, N.Y. – dining practice partner Linda McCoy, de...
Inside the Center for Innovation: The New Home for Pioneer and Green House
Elevate Eldercare - November 16, 2022 05:00 - 42 minutesIt’s official: The Green House Project and Pioneer Network are now formally aligned under the Center for Innovation umbrella. GHP senior director Susan Ryan and Pioneer Network CEO Penny Cook go inside the new alliance and share updates on some of the exciting work coming in the year ahead – ...
Building LTC Bridges Across Borders
Elevate Eldercare - November 09, 2022 05:00 - 39 minutesCanadian Association for Long-Term Care CEO Jodi Hall joins Penny Cook to discuss the challenges and opportunities around systemic change post-COVID. Hall’s answers will probably sound familiar to providers and reform leaders on both sides of the border – funding questions, staffing shortages,...
Compassionate Care Starts with Compassionate Leadership
Elevate Eldercare - November 02, 2022 13:45 - 1 hourAs a chronic cancer patient and senior lecturer in nursing at the University of Salford in Manchester, England, Natalie Yates-Bolton knows about the importance of compassionate health care from both sides of the equation. She joins “Elevate Eldercare” to discuss her extensive work in the field...
Rethinking “Surplus Safety” in Long-Term Care
Elevate Eldercare - October 26, 2022 04:00 - 50 minutesEven the most well-meaning people sometimes talk about “keeping our seniors safe” from a variety of possible outcomes, from disease to falls to the dangers of poor diet – as though elders have no autonomy or ability to make decisions on their own. Zero-tolerance COVID lockdowns have helped to ...
Reframing the “Workforce Crisis” in Long-Term Care
Elevate Eldercare - October 19, 2022 04:00 - 43 minutesPersistent staffing issues in long-term care don’t have a single solution. In fact, leadership expert and educator Christopher Ridenhour argues that creating a stable, resilient, and satisfied workforce requires the intersection of multiple goals – from diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts t...
Breaking the Binary Between Funding and Transparency
Elevate Eldercare - October 12, 2022 11:10 - 51 minutesHarvard researcher David Grabowski returns to the podcast to discuss the financial incentives that have created our current long-term care landscape – and how small changes to the way the federal government funds and regulates nursing homes can lead to significant improvements in quality, safety...
Autonomy Through Community: The Citizenship Model in LTC
Elevate Eldercare - October 05, 2022 04:00 - 53 minutesThe pandemic threw a harsh light on the lack of autonomy that far too many people experience when receiving care in an institutional setting, and supporting resident choice and decision-making ability has become an important area of reform action. Jill Vitale-Aussem, president and CEO of C...
Incentives Matter: Paying for Performance in Long-Term Care
Elevate Eldercare - September 28, 2022 04:00 - 57 minutesFrequently lost in the debates over nursing home reform is an uncomfortable fact: the federal and state governments spend billions on care in outdated, understaffed institutions that don’t always put residents’ needs first, and we’re all collectively getting what we’re paying for. By better al...
Workforce Voices: Different Paths, Same Heart
Elevate Eldercare - September 21, 2022 04:00 - 1 hourSusan Ryan and Alex Spanko discuss a pair of interviews with care professionals conducted at the recent Pioneer Network conference. First up, Lauren Flores – director of life enrichment at Green House adopter Mt. San Antonio Gardens in Pomona, Calif. – discusses her path from Disney to elderca...
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