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Overcoming Inertia in Eldercare Reform
Elevate Eldercare - January 19, 2022 05:00 - 59 minutesAs a longtime advocate for better eldercare options, Susan Reinhard knows that calls for change will always be met with tough resistance from those invested in the status quo. Her advice? Be tougher. Reinhard, the director of AARP’s Public Policy Institute, joins “Elevate Eldercare” to discuss...
“Be Kind and Be Useful”: Finding Common Ground in Eldercare Reform
Elevate Eldercare - January 14, 2022 05:00 - 58 minutesLaura Tamblyn Watts has a mantra for her work in eldercare reform: Be kind and be useful. The temperature around long-term care reform debates can often rise into rancor – understandably so, given the abuse and death that too often occurs in the setting, particularly in the wake of COVID. But ...
Building a True Eldercare System with Rep. Jan Schakowsky
Elevate Eldercare - January 12, 2022 05:00 - 23 minutesAmong the many long-simmering problems that COVID-19 revealed in long-term care, a lack of coordination among providers and leaders may be one of the trickiest to solve – but Rep. Jan Schakowsky believes it’s possible with collaboration and a groundswell of grassroots action. Schakowsky, who r...
COVID 2022: Hope and Reality with Dr. William Haseltine
Elevate Eldercare - January 05, 2022 05:00 - 1 hourTo kick off yet another uncertain year, “Elevate Eldercare” welcomes back Dr. William Haseltine for a dose of both hard reality and hope for managing the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. In the first part of the interview, conducted in late October, Dr. Haseltine – a renowned expert on virology and ...
Revisiting the Biggest Ideas of 2021
Elevate Eldercare - December 29, 2021 05:00 - 48 minutesIn this last episode of the year, Susan Ryan and Alex Spanko look back at some of the guests and ideas that stuck with the entire Green House Project team from the “Elevate Eldercare” podcast in 2021. From the importance of inclusion in eldercare settings to the need for collaborative and tran...
“Let Me Say This About That” - Speaking the Truth with Dr. Joycelyn Elders
Elevate Eldercare - December 22, 2021 05:00 - 32 minutesThis week we have another inspirational woman to highlight on “Let Me Say This About That” – Dr. Joycelyn Elders, former Surgeon General of the United States and current Green House Project board member. Get ready for a wonderful discussion of her trailblazing life and career, and another “barri...
Speaking the Truth with Dr. Joycelyn Elders
Elevate Eldercare - December 15, 2021 05:00 - 1 hourThis week, “Elevate Eldercare” has the true honor of welcoming former U.S. surgeon general and current Green House Project board member Dr. Joycelyn Elders for a discussion of her trailblazing life and career. Dr. Elders’s drive and talents took her from a childhood in poverty to the heights o...
“Let Me Say This About That” – From Victimization to Empowerment with Dr. Edith Eger
Elevate Eldercare - December 08, 2021 05:00 - 31 minutesDr. Edith Eger’s life took her from unimaginable despair to peace and a calling to help others. As a teenager, Dr. Eger survived the Nazi concentration camps – and the murder of her parents – by relying on her inner strength to remember that she was still a valuable human being despite the in...
From Victimization to Empowerment with Dr. Edith Eger
Elevate Eldercare - December 01, 2021 05:00 - 59 minutesThe arc of Dr. Edith Eger’s life took her from unimaginable despair to peace and a calling to help others. This week, she joins “Elevate Eldercare” to discuss her unique and powerful perspective on grief, hope, and forgiveness – as well as the continued need to fight ignorance and hatred with lo...
Setting the Gratitude Table for Caregivers
Elevate Eldercare - November 24, 2021 05:00 - 48 minutesThis Thanksgiving week, “Elevate Eldercare” hands the mic over to three dedicated caregivers from the Green House Cottages of Homewood in Mena, Ark. Administrator Vicki Hughes, RN Toni Lawrence, and Shahbaz/CNA Kerri Rye gather around a virtual gratitude table to discuss their reasons for work...
“Let Me Say This About That” – Solve Workers’ Challenges, Solve the Workforce Challenge
Elevate Eldercare - November 17, 2021 05:00 - 40 minutesAs leaders from across the long-term care continuum continue to search for solutions to the worsening workforce shortage Robert Espinoza has a simple piece of advice: Learn more about caregivers’ challenges and solve them to help them stay in the sector. Espinoza is the vice president of policy ...
Solve Workers’ Challenges, Solve the Workforce Challenge
Elevate Eldercare - November 10, 2021 05:00 - 51 minutesAs leaders from across the long-term care continuum continue to search for solutions to the worsening workforce shortage, Robert Espinoza has a simple piece of advice: Learn more about caregivers’ challenges, and solve them to help them stay in the sector. As the vice president of policy at th...
“Let Me Say This About That” – More Than “Warm Bodies”: Building a Stronger LTC Workforce
Elevate Eldercare - November 03, 2021 04:00 - 36 minutesWhat might be the answer to the workforce crisis in long-term care? In this edition of “Let Me Say This About That” we explore the possibilities that Robyn Stone recently shared on Elevate Eldercare. Robyn is the senior vice president for research at non-profit provider organization LeadingAge ...
More Than “Warm Bodies”: Building a Stronger LTC Workforce
Elevate Eldercare - October 27, 2021 04:00 - 56 minutesWith the workforce crisis in long-term care more dire than ever, providers face difficult decisions on an almost daily basis around maintaining a high level of care while managing a growing shortage of qualified candidates. Robyn Stone – senior vice president for research at non-profit provide...
“Let Me Say This About That” – Change the Incentives, Change the Care
Elevate Eldercare - October 20, 2021 04:00 - 39 minutesThis past summer, the American Bar Association overwhelmingly passed a resolution urging Congress to make private rooms and bathrooms, along with other small-home touches, a prerequisite for nursing homes to receive Medicare and Medicaid funding. In this episode, Mary and Marla take a closer...
Change the Incentives, Change the Care
Elevate Eldercare - October 13, 2021 04:00 - 53 minutesThis past summer, the American Bar Association overwhelmingly passed a resolution urging Congress to make private rooms and bathrooms, along with other small-home touches, a prerequisite for nursing homes to receive Medicare and Medicaid funding. To learn more about this attempt to overhaul ...
“Let Me Say This About That” – Research Matters During a Pandemic
Elevate Eldercare - October 06, 2021 04:00 - 39 minutesResearch gives you a solid foundation on which you can build your ideas and opinions and in this episode of “Let Me Say This About That” we explore the work from two leading researchers in the aging sector. University of Chicago researcher R. Tamara Konetzka, who was behind some of the earlies...
Bonus Episode: Turning Research into Action
Elevate Eldercare - October 01, 2021 04:00 - 53 minutesUniversity of Chicago researcher R. Tamara Konetzka was behind some of the earliest research into COVID-19 and nursing homes, which often generated provocative and unexpected results: While media coverage focused on individual outbreaks and historic lapses in infection control, Konetzka’s work s...
Embracing Practice-Based Evidence in Long-Term Care
Elevate Eldercare - September 29, 2021 04:00 - 47 minutesEvidence-based practices form the bedrock of quality health care services, but as we continue to seek real reforms in long-term care, Sheryl Zimmerman believes researchers need to flip the script – and also embrace practice-based evidence. Instead of waiting years to see which new theories and...
A Future Without Lockdowns: Inside the Essential Caregiver Movement
Elevate Eldercare - September 15, 2021 04:00 - 58 minutesSafe and effective COVID-19 vaccines brought a long-overdue end to a blanket federal ban on nursing home visitations this past March, but the surging delta variant has brought back the isolation and uncertainty of 2020 to nursing homes and other communal care facilities across the country. Thi...
“Let Me Say This About That” - Why Choosing Home Isn’t a Zero-Sum Game
Elevate Eldercare - September 08, 2021 04:00 - 39 minutesAs president of the National Association for Home Care and Hospice, Bill Dombi is a prominent supporter of the Choose Home Care Act of 2021 – a piece of federal legislation that would expand Medicare coverage of in-home health care services. In this episode Marla takes a closer look at what is...
Why Choosing Home Isn’t a Zero-Sum Game
Elevate Eldercare - September 01, 2021 04:00 - 1 hourAs the CEO of National Association for Home Care and Hospice, Bill Dombi is a prominent supporter of the Choose Home Care Act of 2021 – a piece of federal legislation that would expand Medicare coverage of in-home health care services. Addressing the relative lack of home care alternatives to ...
“Let Me Say This About That” – Building a True Eldercare Coalition with PACE
Elevate Eldercare - August 25, 2021 04:00 - 42 minutesIn this episode of “Let Me Say This About That” Marla and Mary explore the conversation that took place between Susan Ryan and Shawn Bloom, the CEO of the National PACE Association (NPA) in Episode 109 of Elevate Eldercare. PACE, or the Program for All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly is communi...
Building a True Eldercare Coalition with PACE
Elevate Eldercare - August 18, 2021 04:00 - 53 minutesCOVID-19 continues to spur loud calls for expanded home- and community-based services for elders, which are too often lacking in many parts of the country. But there’s an already powerful blueprint that organizations have followed, gradually but steadily, for decades: PACE, or Program for All-...
“Let Me Say This About That” - Building Pandemic Resiliency Amid Rising Uncertainty
Elevate Eldercare - August 11, 2021 04:00 - 32 minutesWith the delta variant surging among the unvaccinated and the looming specter of increased restrictions even for those who’ve gotten their jabs, the cycles of uncertainty that defined most of 2020 are currently making an unwelcome comeback. In Episode 107, Susan Ryan welcomes Tammy Marshall and ...
Building Pandemic Resiliency Amid Rising Uncertainty
Elevate Eldercare - August 04, 2021 04:00 - 56 minutesWith the delta variant surging among the unvaccinated and the looming specter of increased restrictions even for those who’ve gotten their jabs, the cycles of uncertainty that defined most of 2020 are currently making an unwelcome comeback. But for people who live and work in communal settings...
“Let Me Say This About That” – Looking for the Next Champion for Elders: A Tribute to Larry Polivka and Claude Pepper
Elevate Eldercare - July 30, 2021 04:00 - 25 minutesLarry Polivka spent more than a decade as executive director of the Claude Pepper Center at Florida State University before his retirement this past May. In episode 105, Susan Ryan and Alex Spanko explore both leaders’ powerful legacies in the fight to revolutionize eldercare in America. In th...
Looking for the Next Champion for Elders: A Tribute to Larry Polivka and Claude Pepper
Elevate Eldercare - July 28, 2021 04:00 - 55 minutesLarry Polivka spent more than a decade as executive director of the Claude Pepper Center at Florida State University before his retirement this past May. In this episode, Susan Ryan and Alex Spanko explore both leaders’ powerful legacies in the fight to revolutionize eldercare in America. Pepp...
“Let Me Say This About That” - Breaking Down Barriers Between Eldercare Reformers
Elevate Eldercare - July 23, 2021 04:00 - 30 minutesStephen Gordon has dedicated his career to improving eldercare services and supports, and during his time as a geriatrician and educator, he observed a trend among his fellow travelers: People tend to fall in love with a specific reform idea or organization, and then have trouble seeing the pote...
Breaking Down Barriers Between Eldercare Reformers
Elevate Eldercare - July 21, 2021 04:00 - 57 minutesStephen Gordon has dedicated his career to improving eldercare services and supports, and during his time as a geriatrician and educator, he observed a trend among his fellow travelers: People tend to fall in love with a specific reform idea or organization, and then have trouble seeing the pote...
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