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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...
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...
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