Latest Nasem Podcast Episodes
Building Bridges Between Eldercare and Disability Advocacy
Elevate Eldercare - July 17, 2024 04:00 - 53 minutesTireless advocate Carrie Leljedal returns to the podcast to discuss her work to bridge the worlds of advocacy for elders and people living with disabilities, which began after her adult son experienced a prolonged lockdown away from family and friends during the pandemic. She turned her anger an...
Grow Bolder with Green House and Pioneer This Fall
Elevate Eldercare - July 10, 2024 04:00 - 46 minutesIt’ll soon be that time again: We’re gathering the Green House Project and Pioneer Network communities together at the Center for Innovation conference, coming to Grand Rapids, Mich. from November 11-13. This week, join CFI team members Susan Ryan, Marla DeVries, and Stacey Bergmann for a prev...
Rethinking Technology’s Role in Eldercare and Senior Living
Elevate Eldercare - June 26, 2024 04:00 - 44 minutesAcross all industries, it can be difficult to separate promising, useful tech solutions from the hype — especially in senior living and eldercare, which have historically been slow to adopt even basic systems like electronic health records and high-speed wifi. Parasol Alliance CEO Amber Bardon...
Learning from Household Models Around the World
Elevate Eldercare - June 19, 2024 04:00 - 51 minutesWhile the Green House model is the most widely implemented small-home nursing care concept in the U.S., it’s not alone — innovators around the world have developed person-directed, human-scale communities where elders of all abilities can thrive. Belong, a non-profit provider organization, has...
Leading with Love: Celebrating and Supporting LGBTQ+ Elders
Elevate Eldercare - June 12, 2024 04:00 - 44 minutesWith each year that passes, Pride celebrations become more and more mainstream — but in our current political and social climate, LGBTQ+ people of all ages continue to face demonization and stigmatization, a reality that is sometimes magnified for elders. Today in the United States, about half...
Fighting Ageism Everywhere — Even Within the Eldercare Sector
Elevate Eldercare - June 05, 2024 04:00 - 49 minutesJust about everyone who works in the eldercare space has heard about the negative effects of ageism in our society, but we can’t truly fight age-based discrimination until we look inward — even within our own sector. Jordan Evans, co-founder of Art Against Ageism, joins the podcast to discuss ...
Building Intentional, Active Communities for Elders — and Everyone Else
Elevate Eldercare - May 29, 2024 04:00 - 46 minutesSteve Nygren, visionary founder of the Serenbe community outside of Atlanta, returns to the podcast to discuss his vision for intentional communities where elders can age well — but not because they’re designed exclusively for older adults, but for people of all ages to stay active, stay connect...
Determined to Spread Design Equity in Eldercare and Beyond
Elevate Eldercare - May 22, 2024 04:00 - 51 minutesnequities in eldercare affect not just the quality of services but the physical spaces themselves: Far too many operators, policymakers, and investors believe that people receiving Medicaid-funded services simply deserve lower-quality, older, more institutional buildings to call home. Kia Weat...
Creating Person-Directed Alternatives to Guardianship
Elevate Eldercare - May 15, 2024 04:00 - 44 minutesAs the proportion of older Americans grows, so too will the ranks of “solo agers” – people navigating the aging process without children or other relatives. And for elders who need extra assistance in making major decisions around housing and finances, solo aging may lead to legal guardianship a...
Meet the Nursing Leaders Building the Next Generation of Eldercare
Elevate Eldercare - May 08, 2024 04:00 - 1 hourIn honor of National Nurses’ Week, we’re sitting down with Dr. Donna Fick – director of the Center of Geriatric Nursing Excellence at Penn State University – and three of her Ph.D. student-researchers, Thakshila Dasanayake, Olivia Rubio, and Nahida Akter. While their backgrounds and upbringing...
Inside the Direct Care Workforce Strategies Center
Elevate Eldercare - May 01, 2024 04:00 - 38 minutesWorkforce development remains the number-one issue for eldercare providers of all types, and this week, we’re taking you inside a comprehensive, nationwide effort to build the care force of tomorrow. Laura Thorn, director of the Direct Care Workforce Strategies Center, joins the podcast to dis...
Lessons from a Lifetime of Advocacy
Elevate Eldercare - April 24, 2024 04:00 - 54 minutesFrom a very young age, Paddy Moore learned the value of speaking her mind and advocating for those facing discrimination and exclusion, and she turned those lessons into a lifetime of fighting for others – whether it was creating anti-poverty programs under the federal Office of Economic Opportu...
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...
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