Latest Nasem Podcast Episodes
“Let Me Say This About That” - Architecture as Empowerment for People Living with Dementia
Elevate Eldercare - July 16, 2021 04:00 - 36 minutesJennifer Sodo and Max Winters share a core belief about architecture: It’s not just supposed to look nice, but actually improve people’s lives. The senior associates at architecture and design firm Perkins Eastman joined Susan Ryan on “Elevate Eldercare” in Episode 101, to discuss how the buil...
Architecture as Empowerment for People with Dementia
Elevate Eldercare - July 14, 2021 04:00 - 1 hourJennifer Sodo and Max Winters share a core belief about architecture: It’s not just supposed to look nice, but actually improve people’s lives. The senior associates at architecture and design firm Perkins Eastman join “Elevate Eldercare” to discuss how the built and natural environments are e...
“Let Me Say This About That” - Marking 100 Episodes of Elevating Eldercare
Elevate Eldercare - July 09, 2021 04:00 - 42 minutes“Elevate Eldercare” hits a major milestone this week with 100 episodes. One of the underlying themes throughout those programs is the prevalence of ageism that permeates society. OR as Ashton Applewhite explains, “Ageism is a prejudice against our future selves.” In this edition of “Let Me Say...
Looking Back, Looking Forward: Marking 100 Episodes of Elevating Eldercare
Elevate Eldercare - July 07, 2021 04:00 - 56 minutes“Elevate Eldercare” hits a major milestone this week with 100 episodes, so Susan Ryan sat down with the newest member of the Green House Project team to discuss the biggest ideas from the podcast’s first year – and how they can be applied to the ongoing discussion around eldercare reform in Amer...
Recap: Navigating LGBTQ Elderhood with Mindy Cheek
Elevate Eldercare - July 02, 2021 04:00 - 28 minutesFor Mindy Cheek, senior vice president at Greystone, diversity isn’t a corporate policy or a buzzword; it’s an integral part of daily life, and for those who have been victims of discrimination and hate, treating the need for diversity and inclusion as anything less misses the wider point about ...
Navigating LGBTQ Elderhood with Mindy Cheek
Elevate Eldercare - June 30, 2021 04:00 - 54 minutesFor Mindy Cheek, senior vice president at Greystone, diversity isn’t a corporate policy or a buzzword; it’s an integral part of daily life, and for those who have been victims of discrimination and hate, treating the need for diversity and inclusion as anything less misses the wider point about ...
Recap: Integrated Memory Care as a Civil Right: Pat Sprigg and Carol Woods
Elevate Eldercare - June 25, 2021 04:00 - 33 minutesHave you ever thought of segregation as a form of restraint for an elder living with dementia? In this episode of “Let Me Say This About That” we explore that view of memory care and many other interesting perspectives on aging shared by Pat Sprigg. Sprigg is the president and CEO of Carol W...
Integrated Memory Care as a Civil Right: Pat Sprigg and Carol Woods
Elevate Eldercare - June 23, 2021 04:00 - 1 hourPat Sprigg set off on her journey to change eldercare after observing firsthand the horrors of the “best practices” – powerful antipsychotic drugs and physical restraints – that were commonplace in the dementia treatment programs of the 1970s and 1980s. But even as many facilities moved away f...
Recap: Fifty Years of Eldercare Innovation with Jennie Chin Hansen
Elevate Eldercare - June 18, 2021 04:00 - 26 minutesJennie Chin Hansen’s career in aging services has taken her from a community operation in San Francisco’s Chinatown to the presidency of AARP, all underpinned by a desire to view aging through a more holistic lens than the often one-size-fits-all institutional model. Hansen’s work as CEO of O...
Fifty Years of Eldercare Innovation with Jennie Chin Hansen
Elevate Eldercare - June 16, 2021 04:00 - 1 hourIn the mid-1980s, Jennie Chin Hansen decided to move her ailing parents from Boston to her home in San Francisco so that they could live out their remaining years surrounded by family – and not in an institutional nursing home. Hansen’s care journey for her father, who had suffered several str...
Recap: Building Age-Friendly Cities from the DC Blueprint
Elevate Eldercare - June 11, 2021 04:00 - 24 minutesSusan Ryan sat down with Gail Kohn, coordinator of Age-Friendly DC – an ambitious and comprehensive program that seeks to make our nation’s capital a more accessible and joyful place for seniors to live, from aging in place supports to community services to opportunities for forging intergenerat...
Building Age-Friendly Cities from the D.C. Blueprint
Elevate Eldercare - June 09, 2021 04:00 - 59 minutesSusan Ryan sits down with Gail Kohn, coordinator of Age-Friendly D.C., an initiative undertaken at the direction of the Mayor of Washington, D.C., as part of the broader World Health Organization-structured journey to help cities like D.C. become an easier city in which to grow older. Previou...
Recap: Innovative Eldercare and a Pioneering Spirit in Michigan
Elevate Eldercare - June 04, 2021 04:00 - 31 minutesSusan Ryan sat down with Roger Myers, president and CEO of Presbyterian Villages of Michigan (PVM). In this recap, Marla and Mary discuss how Roger became an early adopter of the Green House model, opening two homes in Redford, Mich. Mary discusses why Myers was so amazed during the ceremony ...
Innovative Eldercare and a Pioneering Spirit in Michigan
Elevate Eldercare - June 02, 2021 04:00 - 54 minutesSusan Ryan sits down with Roger Myers, president and CEO of Presbyterian Villages of Michigan, (PVM), headquartered in Southfield, Mich. He talks about bringing the first Green House homes to Michigan as the second organization in the nation to embrace the innovative model. Myers talks about ...
Recap: The Serenbe Story of Biophilic Living
Elevate Eldercare - May 28, 2021 04:00 - 29 minutesToday we explore Serenbe, located in the hill country of South Fulton County, Georgia. It has been called a wellness sanctuary, an environmental prototype, an agrihood, even a utopia. In Episode 87, Susan Ryan talked with Steve Nygren, founder, and CEO of Serenbe, a community created as a mod...
The Serenbe Story of Biophilic Living
Elevate Eldercare - May 26, 2021 04:00 - 1 hourSusan Ryan sits down with Steve Nygren, founder and CEO of Serenbe, an award-winning biophilic community that connects people to nature and each other. Located in Chattahoochee Hills, Ga., each of Serenbe’s hamlets has a complementary commercial center focused on the elements of a well-lived lif...
Recap: Leading a Senior Living Revival
Elevate Eldercare - May 21, 2021 04:00 - 28 minutesToday we explore episode 85, where Susan Ryan sat down with Joel Anderson, president & CEO of LifeStar Living, a senior living development services, management, and advisory company located in Sarasota, Fla. Anderson has spent his 26-year executive career in directing both non-profit and for-pro...
Leading a Senior Living Revival
Elevate Eldercare - May 19, 2021 04:00 - 49 minutesSusan Ryan sits down with her good friend, Joel Anderson, president & CEO of LifeStar Living, a senior living development services, management, and advisory company located in Sarasota, Fla. Anderson has spent his 26-year executive career in directing both non-profit and for-profit senior living...
Recap: Biophilic Design and the Healing Powers of Nature
Elevate Eldercare - May 14, 2021 04:00 - 30 minutesThis week on “Let Me Say This About That,” Marla DeVries and Mary Hopfner-Thomas recap episode 83, which features a conversation between Susan Ryan and Tammy Marshall, founder and CEO of Biophilia Pharma, a company that explores the healing power between nature and humans, as well as the benefit...
Biophilic Design and the Healing Powers of Nature
Elevate Eldercare - May 12, 2021 04:00 - 55 minutesSusan Ryan welcomes back Tammy Marshall, founder and CEO of Biophilia Pharma. Marshall’s journey to wellness, as well as to establishing Biophilia Pharma, exemplifies her passion around exploring the healing connection between nature and humans. In her first episode with Ryan, Marshall describ...
Recap: A Nursing Home Medical Director’s Perspective on COVID
Elevate Eldercare - May 07, 2021 04:00 - 28 minutesOn his LinkedIn profile, Michael Wasserman, MD, describes himself as a “Grampa, Father, Husband, Ironman, and Geriatrician.” He is also someone with strong opinions about COVID and nursing homes. In our recap of the Episode 81, in which Susan Ryan sits down with Dr. Wasserman, we take a deepe...
A Nursing Home Medical Director’s Perspective on the COVID Crisis
Elevate Eldercare - May 05, 2021 04:00 - 56 minutesSusan Ryan sits down with Michael Wasserman, MD, a geriatrician who has devoted his career to serving the needs of older adults. He is the editor in chief of an upcoming textbook, Geriatric Medicine: A Person-Centered Evidence-Based Approach, and he was previously CEO of Rockport Healthcare Serv...
Recap: A Unique Call to Lead
Elevate Eldercare - April 30, 2021 04:00 - 26 minutesSteve Nash, president and CEO of Stoddard Baptist Home Foundation, is the focus of this episode of “Let Me Say This About That” with Mary and Marla. They examine Susan Ryan’s conversation with Steve to discuss his work with the foundation, his perspective on the challenges of COVID, and what he ...
A Unique Call to Lead
Elevate Eldercare - April 28, 2021 04:00 - 56 minutesSusan Ryan sits down with Steve Nash, president and CEO of the Stoddard Baptist Home, which has a legacy of caring for elders in the Washington, D.C., metro area since 1902. Nash has held leadership roles in a number of long-term care organizations, including as president of the District of Co...
Recap: Leadership and “Healthy Aging”
Elevate Eldercare - April 23, 2021 04:00 - 25 minutesIn this recap of episode 77, Susan Ryan sat down with Larry Minnix, a consultant and author, and perhaps most known for his previous role as CEO of LeadingAge, a national association of nonprofit long-term and post-acute care providers. When he retired in 2015, LeadingAge named its Leadership Ac...
Leadership and “Healthy Aging”
Elevate Eldercare - April 21, 2021 04:00 - 56 minutesIn this week’s episode, Susan Ryan sits down with Larry Minnix, a consultant and author, and perhaps most known for his previous role as CEO of LeadingAge, a national association of nonprofit long-term and post-acute care providers. When he retired in 2015, LeadingAge named its Leadership Acad...
Recap: Senior Living Investment Banking: A Post-Pandemic View
Elevate Eldercare - April 16, 2021 04:00 - 27 minutesToday they explore episode 75, where Susan Ryan sits down with Lisa McCracken and Dan Hermann of Ziegler Investment Banking, a privately held investment bank, capital markets and proprietary investments firm that specializes in the healthcare, senior living, and education sectors. McCracken i...
Senior Living Investment Banking: A Post-Pandemic View
Elevate Eldercare - April 14, 2021 04:00 - 53 minutesIn today’s episode, Susan Ryan sits down with Lisa McCracken and Dan Hermann of Ziegler Investment Banking, a privately held investment bank, capital markets and proprietary investments firm that specializes in the healthcare, senior living, and education sectors. McCracken is director of seni...
Recap: Resiliency and Leadership During Crises
Elevate Eldercare - April 09, 2021 04:00 - 27 minutesIn this episode, Susan Ryan sat down with Jeannee Parker Martin, president and CEO of LeadingAge California. In this recap, Marla and Mary offer some background on LeadingAge California and its 60-year history. They take a deeper dive into the five key initiatives the group is working on for i...
Resiliency and Leadership During Crises
Elevate Eldercare - April 07, 2021 04:00 - 54 minutesIn this episode, Susan Ryan sits down with Jeannee Parker Martin, president and CEO of LeadingAge California, an organization that “fights on behalf of California's older adults to ensure their access to innovative, quality, and affordable long-term services and supports.” Its members are long-t...
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