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Bridging Approaches to Elder Care Culture Change

The network of passionate and compassionate people working towards meaningful transformation of senior’s living grows ever tighter as we continue to seek and speak with leaders in the sector.

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Dispatches from the Passion of Person Centred Care Conference

The Passion of Person Centred Care is the theme of the conference I find myself at in the shadow of pirate ships and fighter jets near a bright-lit atrium at the West Edmonton Mall.

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The Passion of Person Centred Care Conference Beckons
Headed for Edmonton's culture change conversations

Over the past couple of months I’ve had the pleasure of sharing enlightening conversations with some of the leading thinkers related to changing attitudes in how we care for our elders as they grow though the late stages of life’s journey.

Health & LTC

Flatten the Hierarchy and Look Beyond Tasks for Culture Change
‘Vision, education and implementation is critical,’ in resident-centred care

Changing habits in long-term care can be a difficult prospect in the face of daily task lists, but a major component of culture change is thinking beyond just the tasks to a place where resident-centredness is the core of care philosophies.

Talking Person Centred Care at Edmonton’s CapitalCare
Households for Elder Care Continue U.S. Expansion
New Docs Learning to Address Social Determinants of Health

Stakeholder News

Social Media Innovation Day to Advance #Inclusion
13 different organizations who support people who have a disability attending day’s events

What’s a hashtag? Well, if you’re attending an upcoming social media workshop to advance the inclusion of people who have a disability, it’s not only a valid question but a tagline that will allow you to follow the events remotely via Twitter.

Axiom News Journalist Invited to Judge Social Business Competition
News Articles Offer Motivation to ‘Pay it Forward’
Advance Strategic and Communication Goals with Curation

Editorial

If You’re not Changing, You’re Dying

There’s a well-known adage in business that says if you aren't growing, you’re dying. Instead of growing, we prefer to think changing is a more useful sentiment, and the long-term care sector has been a constant state of change since the idea of the nursing home first came into being in the middle of the 20th century.

Sparking Change in the Culture of Aging
Towards a Narrative of Possibility In Long-Term Care
Changing the Culture of Aging Requires Leadership and Vision

We Recommend

Healing Conversations

In this video Dr. Bill Thomas interviews Tony Silbert on the book he co-authored; Healing Conversations Now: Enhance Relationships with Elders and Dying Loved Ones, which shares how to ask open-ended positive questions to generate life stories.

Briefs

New-style nursing home gets rave reviews

Click here for a great example of the new approach to senior's living from Springfield, Ill.; the household model in action.

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