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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debates over nursing home reform is an uncomfortable fact: the federal and state governments spend billions on care in outdated, understaffed institutions that don’t always put residents’ needs first, and we’re all collectively getting what we’re paying for.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...
DEI Beyond Workshops: Creating Real Belonging
Elevate Eldercare - September 14, 2022 04:00 - 55 minutesOrganizations in all industries have embraced the value of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in their operations – but how can eldercare organizations go beyond trainings and workshops to create truly inclusive cultures? We asked that question to a variety of leaders at the Pioneer Networ...
Volunteers and Validation: Infusing Humanity into Care
Elevate Eldercare - September 07, 2022 04:00 - 1 hourThe voices from the Pioneer Network conference continue to speak as Alex Spanko and Penny Cook break down a pair of interviews focusing on the need for inherent humanity – and not just medical care – in eldercare settings. First up, Paul Falkowski discusses his advocacy for the vital role of n...
“Let Me Say This About That” – June Recap
Elevate Eldercare - June 29, 2022 21:30 - 50 minutesIn this edition of “Let Me Say This About That” we focus our discussion on health care innovations, a closer look at employees in skilled nursing and a new term for those team members – CAREFORCE, and why a formal alliance between the Green House Project and the Pioneer Network will be a single ...
Beyond EAPs: Building the Mental Health Support Pyramid
Elevate Eldercare - June 22, 2022 04:00 - 50 minutesDuring COVID, many long-term care organizations have leaned heavily on employee assistance programs (EAPs) to support employee mental health. While these programs are valuable, psychologist and consultant Kelly O’Shea Carney passionately argues that EAPs are just the tip of a pyramid of services...
Respect, Wages, Education: Paying It Forward for CNAs
Elevate Eldercare - June 15, 2022 04:00 - 49 minutesWhen Lori Porter was a young CNA, she relied on the support – both moral and financial – of others to access the training she needed to advance her career. As the co-founder and CEO of the National Association of Health Care Assistants (NAHCA), Porter has dedicated decades of her career to pr...
Keep Learning, Keep Growing, Keep Thriving
Elevate Eldercare - June 08, 2022 04:00 - 56 minutesBefore he was the CEO of Hebrew SeniorLife, Louis Woolf’s career started in consumer research, where he worked with Children’s Television Workshop – the creators of “Sesame Street.” Those children’s TV visionaries taught him a valuable lesson that he carries with him today: Whether it’s young ...
Inside the Green House Project-Pioneer Network Alliance
Elevate Eldercare - June 01, 2022 04:00 - 51 minutesSince we announced a formal alliance with Pioneer Network this spring, we’ve gotten a lot of questions: Why now? What will happen to the Pioneer brand? What are your plans for the future? In this bonus episode, Pioneer Network CEO Penny Cook joins Susan Ryan for answers to those questions and ...
What Do You Want to Do When You’re Older?
Elevate Eldercare - May 25, 2022 04:00 - 52 minutesAs we close out Older Americans Month, “Elevate Eldercare” takes a wider look at the societal problem of ageism with Paul Irving, the former president of the Milken Institute and the founding chair of its Center for the Future of Aging. Irving, now a senior fellow at the institute, shares his ...
Bringing a European-Style Dementia Village to New Jersey
Elevate Eldercare - May 18, 2022 04:00 - 42 minutesAs soon as Larry Carlson saw a CNN piece about a unique dementia village in the Netherlands, he knew he had to see it for himself – and once he did, he knew he had to bring the model to his organization back home in New Jersey. Carlson, the CEO of United Methodist Communities, joins “Elevate E...
How Nurses Can Drive Nursing Home Culture Change
Elevate Eldercare - May 11, 2022 04:00 - 52 minutesIn honor of National Nurses Week, we convened an all-star panel of nurses from the Green House and Pioneer Network communities to discuss the vital role that RNs, LPNs, and other nursing professionals play in truly driving culture change in long-term care. You’ll hear real-life examples of how...
Growing the Next Generation of Caregivers
Elevate Eldercare - May 04, 2022 04:00 - 56 minutesThe New Jewish Home has been serving elders in New York City since before the Civil War, but CEO Jeffrey Farber knows that even an organization with that kind of longevity needs constant innovation to survive into the future. For more than 15 years, the Jewish Home’s Geriatrics Career Developm...
“Let Me Say This About That” – April Recap
Elevate Eldercare - April 27, 2022 04:00 - 41 minutesIn this edition of “Let Me Say This About That” we focus on innovation and how to make substantive change – from the perspective of those that are doing it, those that support organizations to make change, and those that research and have the 30-thousand-foot view. AND it’s all focused around t...
A Comprehensive Roadmap for Meaningful Reform in Nursing Homes
Elevate Eldercare - April 20, 2022 04:00 - 1 hourDuring this pandemic there has been a trusted and credible voice that has used data to shine a light on the urgent need for comprehensive nursing home reform in this country – and that voice is Dr. David Grabowski. Dr. Grabowski is a professor of health care policy at Harvard Medical School an...
Dismantling Institutional Culture in Long-Term Care
Elevate Eldercare - April 13, 2022 04:00 - 1 hourWhen The Green House Project talks about bringing an end to the institutional nursing home, we don’t just mean the outdated, hospital-like buildings where so many elders live: We also mean the institutional culture that dehumanizes real people by treating them solely as collections of symptoms t...
Going Beyond Good Enough for Elders and Workers
Elevate Eldercare - April 06, 2022 04:00 - 55 minutesFor years, Barry Berman and Betsy Mullen thought they’d built the best possible nursing home – to the point where people came from all over to see their state-of-the-art nurses’ stations and efficient meal distribution. But then Barry’s own mother needed nursing home care at their facility, an...
Maintaining Leadership in LTC as the World Moves On
Elevate Eldercare - March 30, 2022 04:00 - 59 minutesAs the CEO of an eldercare organization and the chair of LeadingAge’s board, Carol Silver Elliott faced a pair of daunting leadership challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic – and emerged as a shining example of strength under extreme pressure and tragedy. As we close out Women’s History Month...
“Let Me Say This About That” – March Recap
Elevate Eldercare - March 23, 2022 04:00 - 39 minutesMarch of every year is declared “National Women’s Month”. The National Women’s History Alliance designates a yearly theme for Women’s History Month…and this year it is “Women Providing, Healing, Promoting Hope”. This theme is “both a tribute to the ceaseless work of caregivers and frontline wor...
Building Morals into Long-Term Care
Elevate Eldercare - March 16, 2022 04:00 - 54 minutesAmid the current national debate over new nursing home regulations, Dr. Eleanor Feldman Barbera presents a provocative reframing of the system-wide problems in long-term care. A psychologist who specializes in mental health care for older adults, particularly those who live in nursing homes, F...
Emphasizing the Living in Senior Living
Elevate Eldercare - March 09, 2022 05:00 - 58 minutesJane Rohde’s career in senior living architecture and design is based on a simple but often overlooked truth: What’s good for elders is also what’s good for everyone. Our needs don’t change as we age, and Rohde joins “Elevate Eldercare” to challenge our idea of what senior living can and shoul...
Who Cares for the Caregivers?
Elevate Eldercare - March 02, 2022 05:00 - 1 hourThe solutions to the workforce crisis in long-term care are complex and systemic, from better wages to battling deep-seated biases to inspiring young people to see caregiving as a career. But what about the immediate challenges facing the current cohort of caregivers – the people who, often at t...
“Let Me Say This About That” – February Recap
Elevate Eldercare - February 23, 2022 05:00 - 48 minutesWe continue our new format for “Let Me Say This About That” – highlighting all of the podcasts released in the month in one episode. In February three podcasts were released: - Reframing Dementia and Caregiving for the Future (Episode 135) - Editing the Genetics of Alzheimer’s (Episode 136) ...
Getting Closer to Home with Marvell Adams, Jr.
Elevate Eldercare - February 16, 2022 05:00 - 52 minutesMarvell Adams, Jr. has built his career in non-profit senior services on a desire to bring the traditional spaces associated with eldercare – the nursing home, the assisted living facility – closer to home. But creating a home isn’t as simple as building a structure. It’s a deliberate act of fos...
Editing the Genetics of Alzheimer’s
Elevate Eldercare - February 09, 2022 05:00 - 50 minutesDr. Ornit Chiba-Falek’s work as an Alzheimer’s researcher sounds almost like science fiction – but it’s real. At the Duke University School of Medicine, Chiba-Falek and her colleagues are probing the ways that science can essentially turn off the specific DNA sequences that can lead to Alzheimer...
Reframing Dementia and Caregiving for the Future
Elevate Eldercare - February 02, 2022 05:00 - 1 hourAmid the gradual aging of the American population, there’s never been more awareness about Alzheimer’s and other dementias – but the stigmas and misconceptions have also persisted alongside this public knowledge, even among well-meaning people. At the University of Pennsylvania’s Penn Memory C...
“Let Me Say This About That” – January Recap
Elevate Eldercare - January 26, 2022 05:00 - 36 minutesIt’s a new year and we’ve got a new format for “Let Me Say This About That” – instead of highlighting just one Elevate Eldercare podcast, we will discuss all of the podcasts released in the month. In January four podcasts were released: -COVID 2022: Hope and Reality with Dr. William Haseltine ...
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