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Banding Together to Protect Empowering, Non-Profit Care

Elevate Eldercare - February 14, 2024 05:00 - 51 minutes
As 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...

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Leveling Up With Age

Foresight Radio - February 07, 2024 12:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★ - 9 ratings
At age 77, Jane Leder became a podcaster. On her show, Older Women & Friends, she takes a deep dive into what it's like getting older, dispels stereotypes, and spotlights contributions older women make.  In this episode, Rachel and Jane discuss the realities of aging — and explore some of the ...

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Incubating Innovations from Ideas to Practice

Elevate Eldercare - February 07, 2024 05:00 - 53 minutes
Individuals 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 –...

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Building Safe, Empowering Spaces for Family Caregivers

Elevate Eldercare - January 31, 2024 05:00 - 53 minutes
In 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 ...

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Being Your Authentic Self

Foresight Radio - January 24, 2024 12:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★ - 9 ratings
Is your team as motivated as you wish they'd be? If they aren't, this episode has tons of tips you're going to love! Danny Cords is an organizational psychologist (cool, right?) who coaches leaders on how to motivate their teams and get the best from them. Danny advocates for a person-firs...

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Fostering Creativity, Growth, and Fulfillment in Nursing Homes

Elevate Eldercare - January 24, 2024 05:00 - 33 minutes
Far 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 ...

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Diversify the Perspectives, Reimagine the Care

Elevate Eldercare - January 17, 2024 05:00 - 1 hour
As 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...

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Revisiting – and Re-Energizing – Teaching Nursing Homes

Elevate Eldercare - January 10, 2024 05:00 - 56 minutes
Revisiting 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...

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Predicting the Future of Eldercare Innovation

Elevate Eldercare - January 03, 2024 05:00 - 59 minutes
Robert 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...

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Highlights, Hardships, Hesitations, and Hope: 2023 in Review

Elevate Eldercare - December 27, 2023 05:00 - 44 minutes
Every 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 ...

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Checking In with the Moving Forward Coalition

Elevate Eldercare - December 20, 2023 05:00 - 45 minutes
The 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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Finding Hope and Light in the Darkest of Times

Elevate Eldercare - December 13, 2023 05:00 - 58 minutes
As 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...

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Leading Through Trauma Informed Care

Foresight Radio - December 06, 2023 21:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★ - 9 ratings
Everybody's got baggage. And that's nothing to be ashamed of.   Jean Hartnett, founder of Radical Sabbatical, coaches leaders and caregivers on trauma-informed care in senior living. Rather than leading from a place of "leave it at the door," the goal of this approach is to invite in the...

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Speaking Up for Nursing Home Residents of All Ages

Elevate Eldercare - December 06, 2023 05:00 - 42 minutes
It’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 ...

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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...

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Thriving With Age

Foresight Radio - November 22, 2023 09:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★ - 9 ratings
Fine artist Sky Bergman set out to film her grandmother.   Within a few years, she'd directed her first film, interviewed dozens more people, and launched a project to foster intergenerational connections.   Sky shares invaluable interview tips — and what she's learned from older p...

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Gathering Around the Gratitude Table 2023

Elevate Eldercare - November 22, 2023 05:00 - 51 minutes
Each 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...

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Cross-Pollination: Sharing Person-Directed Practices Across Silos

Elevate Eldercare - November 15, 2023 05:00 - 50 minutes
Stacey 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...

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Elevating Senior Care

Foresight Radio - November 08, 2023 08:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★ - 9 ratings
Rachel talks with Blima Ehrentreu, the founder and CEO of The Designers Group, about elevating senior living spaces — for both residents and staff — and why peaceful spaces are important parts of the healing process. _____________________________ Where to find us: Website: https://www.seni...

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Probing the Incentives that Shape Eldercare

Elevate Eldercare - November 08, 2023 05:00 - 56 minutes
Brian 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...

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Surviving vs. Thriving: Training for Long-Term Success

Elevate Eldercare - November 01, 2023 04:00 - 56 minutes
For 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...

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Pursuing a Cure for Parkinson’s

Foresight Radio - October 25, 2023 08:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★ - 9 ratings
George Ackerman, PhD, JD, is on a mission to ensure that no one is alone in the fight against Parkinson’s. In memory of his mother, he launched TogetherForSharon to raise awareness and hope for a cure. Along the way, he’s collected 300 Parkinson’s-related stories.   His mission — his move...

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Reframing Nursing Home Reform as a Housing Issue

Elevate Eldercare - October 25, 2023 04:00 - 42 minutes
In 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...

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The Heart and Soul of Person-Directed Living

Elevate Eldercare - October 18, 2023 04:00 - 35 minutes
David 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....

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Redefining Aging

Foresight Radio - October 11, 2023 08:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★ - 9 ratings
This may be the most thoughtful, nonjudgmental discussion about ageism you've heard.   Meg LaPorte and Jordan Evans have set out to counter "the last acceptable -ism" — through artistic activism. They talk with host Rachel Hill about the nuances of ageism, and how art can start a dialogue...

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Envisioning an Eldercare System Beyond Nursing Homes

Elevate Eldercare - October 11, 2023 04:00 - 50 minutes
The 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...

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Architecture as a Verb: Creating Human-Centered Aging Spaces

Elevate Eldercare - October 04, 2023 04:00 - 1 hour
Biophilic 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...

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An Honest Look at Home Care

Foresight Radio - September 27, 2023 08:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★ - 9 ratings
This week, we go behind-the-mic with Nicole Will, host of the popular podcast Navigating the World With Your Aging Loved One.   Nicole shares what inspired her to leave senior living and start a company focused on enhancing older people's lives and well-being.   Spoiler alert: It ha...

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Finding Creative – and Social – Solutions to Top Eldercare Issues

Elevate Eldercare - September 27, 2023 04:00 - 57 minutes
Faced 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...

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Rebuilding Trust After a Complete System Failure

Elevate Eldercare - September 20, 2023 04:00 - 53 minutes
In 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...

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