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Live Webinar
Thursday, April 23, 2020 2:00 PM - 2:45 PM EST
45 min (.75CE)
Long-Term Care Equality Index (LEI): Introducing Best Practices that Strengthen LGBTQ Inclusive Communities
Guides: Sherrill Wayland, Director of National Education Initiatives.SAGE
Dan Stewart, Associate Director, Aging Equity Project, HRC
Description:
Join guides from the LEI Leadership team and Advisory Council to learn about the Long-Term Care Equality Index (LEI) and how your community can be among the early adopters of best practices in creating welcoming and supportive long-term care communities inclusive of LGBTQ community members. Your guides will describe the need for LGBTQ inclusivity, success stories for adopting LGBTQ inclusive policies and practices and the steps you can take today to join the LEI program.
Sherrill Wayland is the Director of National Education Initiatives for SAGE where she directs the operations of programs such as SAGECare and the National Resource Center on LGBT Aging. She also serves as the SAGE lead for the Long-term Care Equality Index (LEI). Sherrill earned a Master of Social Work degree from the Brown School of Social Work, Washington University in St. Louis and has over 25 years of professional experience in the fields of education, disability and LGBT older adult advocacy.
Dan Stewart is the Associate Director of the Aging Equality Project, Dan Stewart manages the Long-Term Care Equality Index (LEI). The LEI, built in partnership with SAGE and HRC, addresses the concerns of LGBTQ older adults seeking long-term care. This is done by working with LTC communities to commit to providing culturally competent care and support their work to do so. Organizations will be supported by better understanding LGBTQ-inclusive policy and procedures. This will ultimately lead to a tool for LGBTQ individuals to find supportive communities. Prior to his role at HRC, Dan served as the SAGE Program Coordinator for PROMO, a statewide program providing services and advocacy for LGBTQ elders in Missouri.
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Recorded Webinar Library
January 2020
Resources You Can Use to Educate, Advocate, Warm the Soil, Advance Person-Centered Care and Accelerate Culture Change (And They’re Free!)
54 minutes (.75 CE)
Guides:
Kim McRae, Co-Founder, Culture Change Network of Georgia and President, Have a Good Life
Rose Marie Fagan, Co-Founder and Founding/Former Executive Director, Pioneer Network and Steering Committee, Culture Change Network of Georgia
Joan Devine, Director of Education, Pioneer Network
Bio:
Rose Marie Fagan is a co-founder and the founding Executive Director of the Pioneer Network, a National Network of individuals who are transforming the culture of aging for the 21st Century. Ms. Fagan is a national speaker on nursing home culture change and helps educate the staff of facilities in implementing change. Her activities have included being a resource to states forming statewide networks for culture change and Take It On 4 Mom.com, Creating Demand for Culture Change in Nursing Homes. This Demonstration Project in Rochester, NY, educates consumers about person-directed care and their role as an advocate. She began her work in long term care in Rochester, NY as Director of the Long Term Care Ombudsman Program. In 1998, she became Project Director of Nursing Home Culture Change Project and in that capacity she was the Project Director for three major research projects in culture change. In 2016, Ms. Fagan moved to Georgia where she is an active member of the Culture Change Network of Georgia.
Kim McRae is a consultant, speaker, educator and advocate. She is also an Educator and Mentor for The Eden Alternative®. Kim works with organizations and companies as a thought leader, change agent and subject matter expert on caregiving, culture change, person-directed living, and person-centered dementia care. As a FCTA (“Family Caregiver Turned Advocate”), Kim comes to person-directed living and person-centered dementia care through a 12-year history as a family caregiver. Kim got involved with the Pioneer Network in 2006 and co-founded the Culture Change Network of Georgia in 2008. She has been actively working to improve quality of life for elders and their care partners for more than seventeen years. She is currently a consultant on the $1.6 million grant, Building Resources for Delivering Person Centered Care in Georgia Nursing Homes, which is a partnership between the Culture Change Network of Georgia and the Gerontology Institute at Georgia State University. The grant was funded by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and Georgia State Survey Agency.
Joan Devine currently serves as the Director of Education for the Pioneer Network, a national organization whose mission is to advocate for and facilitate deep system change and transformation in the culture of aging. A registered nurse and former activity professional, Joan has over 30 years of experience in healthcare having served in leadership positions in long term and acute care settings since 1990. As an advocate for the LTC culture change movement and a certified Eden Educator and Mentor, She actively participates in culture change activities, preparing and equipping care teams in implementing person directed practices and transforming the culture of their home. She currently serves on the board of Missouri MC5: Coalition Celebrating Care, Continuum, Change, the state affiliate of the Pioneer Network. Ms. Devine holds a B.A. in Music Education/Music Therapy, a B.S. in Nursing and a Masters in Management.
Description:Do you need some new resources to help educate and inspire the general public, care partners and change agents about the WHO, WHAT and WHY of culture change and person-centered care? Well, look no further! The Culture Change Network of Georgia (CCNG) may have just what you are looking for! Through the generosity of a CMP grant, and through partnerships with organizations like Pioneer Network, they have produced short educational videos on topics from “What is Culture Change?” to “State Culture Change Coalitions: Key to Advancing Change at the Local Level” to “Culture Change and Person-Centered Care: What’s the Difference?” to “Why Worry About Words: WORDS MATTER.” Join Kim McRae and Rose Marie Fagan as they share the story behind the videos and offer some ideas to spark a conversation about how you can use these free resources to advance culture change and person-centered practices. And while we’re talking, Joan Devine, Director of Education with Pioneer Network will update you on the resources available through Pioneer Network in our Resource Library and more.
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Link to Handout: Click Here
January 2019
Trauma Informed Care: Resilience and Vulnerability
60 minutes (1CE)
Guide:
Dr. Susan Wehry, MDAdverse
Bio:
Dr. Wehry has authored research and articles on aging and mental health, including the Oasis 2.0 curriculum and a recent study published on JAMA, Association of a Communication Training Program With Use of Antipsychotics in Nursing Homes.
Description:
life events–including adverse childhood events (ACEs)–can affect us throughout our lifespan. As the number of these events increases, so does the risk for negative health and diminished well-being. This is true for both caregivers and residents of long-term care. However, even in the face of trauma, people still possess an ability to return to being healthier and more hopeful, with less caregiver burnout.
Objectives:
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February 2019
How Do We Make Sense of the Images We See of Aging and Our Everyday Experience?
50 minutes (.75CE)
Guide:
Penny Cook, President and CEO, Pioneer Network Webinar Description:We’re hearing and reading more about growing older than ever before. Maybe because we’re all doing it. We see images of 90-year old people running marathons, skydiving and bodybuilding. There is an indirect message that this is what we should aspire to be. And yet we provide care and support to other 90-year old people who live in assisted living communities and nursing homes. Do we see them differently because of where they live and their abilities? Is there a different kind of ageism happening in care communities? Come with us on this journey of exploration as we present the first of a year-long series of webinars looking at the perceptions of aging, ageism and person-centered living.
Bio:
Penny is the President and CEO of Pioneer Network. She began her career in New York as a social worker focusing on older adults in acute and post-acute settings and then moved to Colorado and worked in the policy and advocacy arenas as the Program Manager of the Long-Term Care Ombudsman Program, the Executive Director of the Colorado Culture Change Coalition and the Director of Long Term Services and Supports at Colorado Access, a non-profit health plan in Colorado. Penny is passionate about helping us all value and respect our own aging as well as those that we support.
Link to Webinar: Click HereLink to Handout: None March 2019
Title: Rules of Participation: Helping to Drive Person Centered Engagement
60 minutes (1CE)
Guide:
Dawn Worsley, President, National Certification Council for Activity Professionals(NCCAP)
Alissa Tagg, President of the National Association of Activity Professionals (NAAP)
Bios:
Alisa Tagg, BA ACC/EDU CADDCT CDP CDCS
President of the National Association of Activity Professionals (NAAP), has been a certified activity consultant since 2006 and an activity director working primarily in nursing homes since 1995. She enjoys teaching the MEPAP education course to new activity professionals. She also works as an independent consultant in various homes throughout southern Nevada. Alisa holds a bachelor’s degree in Psychology from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, a provider’s Certificate of Completion specializing in Aging with the Nevada Geriatric Education Center and is a Certified Alzheimer’s Disease and Dementia Care Trainer, a Certified Dementia Practitioner with the National Certification Council for Dementia Practitioners, and a Certified Dementia Communication Specialist with the Silver Dawn Training Institute. She speaks on local, state and national levels on various topics relating to health care and the activity profession.
Dawn Worsley ADC/EDU/MC , MDEC
Dawn is the owner of Dawn on the Horizon, LLC in Baltimore, MD and she serves on a variety of boards including her current position as President of National Certification Council for Activity Professionals (NCCAP). Dawn is an Activity Director Certified (ADC) with a specialization in Memory Care and Education, a Certified Eden Alternative Associate as well as Montessori Dementia Engagement Certified. She is also an authorized certification instructor with the National Certification Council of Activity Professionals. In addition to serving as an Activity Director, Corporate Program Development Consultant, Admissions & Marketing Director, Director of Alzheimer's and Gero-psych units, Dawn serves as a Regional Clinical Specialist. She has a vast knowledge base in many facets of long-term care and community services and is considered a pioneer in her field regarding resident rights and culture change. She is a National Speaker on a variety of topics for Health Care Workers, is published in both print and video, working in collaboration with The University of Maryland Video Press.
Description:
The Rules of Participation is the first major overhaul in the Federal regulation and Survey process in over thirty years and the good news is that Person Centered Care and Engagement is at the epi-center, putting a focus on Quality of Life that has been long over-due. This is great news for Activity Professionals and for all who are serving Elders in long-term care settings. Did you know that CMS under FTag 658 authorized the National Association of Activity Professionals (NAAP), to establish professional standards of practice to help activity professionals and their organizations to meet the new requirements? To fulfill this mandate, NAAP created the National Certification Council for Activity Professionals (NCCAP) in 1986 as the credential for the Activity Profession. Pioneer Network is pleased to be partnering with NAAP/NCCAP for this webinar in which guides Alissa Tagg and Dawn Worsley will present content from NCCAPs Modular Education Program for Activity Professionals (MEPAP). NCCAP programming ensures that professionals have the competencies required to meet regulatory requirements for person centered care. In this session, the Guides will provide you with best practices and clinical applications that utilize person centered engagement as a way to meet or exceed regulations. The team at NCCAP worked with State surveyors to develop this session and will provide you with an insider perspective to the survey process.
Link to Webinar: Click Here
Handouts: 1
April 2019
The Double Whammy of Ageism and Ableism
40 minutes (.5CE)
Guide:
Mel Coppola
Bio:
As President and Owner of Hearts in Care, Mel works closely with all types of organizations involved in Eldercare. Through presentations, articles, coaching and trainings to organizations across the spectrum of care, she spreads the word that aging and care CAN be different, no matter someone's cognitive and/or physical abilities. In addition to being an active Eden Educator and Mentor, Mel is also a Florida licensed Assisted Living Administrator and serves as an Executive and Steering Committee member of Florida Pioneer Network, the state's culture change coalition. "
Description:
By now you’ve probably heard some buzz around ageism-the prejudice of people based on their age. And hopefully you have gained some awareness around it and are taking steps against it—after all, you WILL grow old. But how much have you thought about ableism-the prejudice of someone based on their different abilities, whether physical or cognitive? None of us want to think of ourselves as prejudiced, but we make assumptions based on age and ability more than we think. Especially in the work that we do, these two “isms” collide on a daily basis. In this webinar we will discuss the intersection of ageism and ableism and the double whammy it has for the people we support.
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Link to Handout: None
May 2019
Person Centered Dementia Care: First Came the Recommendations, Now Let’s Explore the Outcomes!
60 minutes (1CE)
Guides:
Sam Fazio, Senior Director of Quality Care and Psychosocial Research Care
Doug Pace, MHA, Director - Mission Partnerships, Alzheimer’s Association
Bio:
Doug Pace is the Director of Mission Partnerships with the Alzheimer's Association. In this role, he provides strategic leadership with government and other organizations to enhance the Association’s influence in the area of dementia care. Previously, Doug was the Executive Director of the Advancing Excellence in Long Term Care Collaborative (AELTCC). The AELTCC’s major initiative is the Advancing Excellence in America’s Nursing Home Campaign, a national campaign to improve the quality of life and quality of care for the country’s 1.5 million nursing home residents. Prior to AELTCC, Doug was the Executive Director of the Long-Term Quality Alliance (LTQA). Before joining the LTQA, Doug was the Director of the Long-Term Care Solution Campaign at Leading Age in Washington, DC. He returned back to Leading Age in March 2008 after 18 months as the Executive Director of the National Commission for Quality Long-Term Care at The New School in New York, NY. Before joining the Commission, Doug was the Vice-President for Culture Transformation and the Director of Assisted Living and Continuing Care with Leading Age. Prior to joining AAHSA in June of 2001, Doug was the President of Leading Age Tennessee in Nashville, TN. He is a licensed Nursing Home Administrator who ran a 210 bed multi-level facility including a SNF, NF, a secured Alzheimer’s unit and assisted living before joining Leading Age TN. Dr. Fazio currently works in the Program Team where he oversees quality care standards and social/behavioral research initiatives. Prior to working for the Alzheimer’s Association, Dr. Fazio worked for Rush Presbyterian St. Luke’s Medical Center at the Alzheimer’s Family Care Center, an adult day center specifically designed for people with dementia. He has worked in the field of aging since 1987 and has a broad range of experience, including research, leadership and management, working with older adults and families, and direct care. Dr. Fazio has presented both nationally and internationally as well as published several journal articles and book chapters. Dr. Fazio is the author of The Enduring Self in People with Alzheimer’s: Getting to the Heart of Individualized Care and the co-author of the book Rethinking Alzheimer’s Care.
Description:
The Dementia Care Practice Recommendations were released over a year ago. Join Sam Fazio and Doug Pace from the Alzheimer’s Association as they share data and stories of what has happened over the past year as these recommendations have been put into practice. You will learn how these standards can be the basis of a culture of quality improvement which can be achieved in any long-term care or community-based setting. And as sponsors of the Dementia Track at this year’s Pioneering a New Culture of Aging conference, Sam and Doug will share with you some of the highlights from of what’s happening in the world of Dementia Care that will be shared at this year’s conference.
Link to Webinar: Click Here
June 2019
It’s Happening: How Anti-Ageism Activist are Changing the Culture of Aging!
49 minutes (.75CE)
Guide:
Ashton Applewhite, Anti-Ageism Activist
Moderator: Joan Devine, Director of Education, Pioneer Network
Description:
Join us for an interactive discussion with nationally known author and anti-ageism activist Ashton Applewhite about what's happening in the movement to change the culture of aging. We’ll talk about international and domestic campaigns to dismantle ageism, and how pro-aging advocates can find resources, confront our own internalized ageism, participate in these initiatives, and help build a better world in which to grow old.
Link to Webinar: Click Here
Handouts: 1
July 2019
Applying Person-Centeredness to Trauma-Informed Care: A planned person-centered approach to the new CMS Trauma- Informed Care Regulations.
60 minutes (1CE)
Description:
This 60-minute webinar describes person-centered trauma-informed care as it relates to this year’s newest phase of CMS regulation regarding Trauma-Informed care. §483.25 effective Nov. 28, 2019. The presenter will identify types trauma events, educate about physical and mental manifestations of trauma, and provide strategies for person-centered response plans when residents disclose trauma histories. Attendees will leave the webinar with interpretation of the trauma-informed guidelines, related F tags, interpret the Behavioral and Emotional Status Critical Element Pathway used by state survey, assessment tools for staff, and apply four actions steps to prepare your community for person centered trauma informed care.
Objectives:
August 2019
A Cruel Irony: Ageism and Ableism in Senior Living Environments 46 minutes (.75CE) Guide:
Jill Vitale-Aussem, President & CEO, The Eden Alternative
Description:
We know that our society is full of ageist and ableist messaging. Senior living communities should be a safe haven from this barrage of negativity, right? Wrong. Unfortunately, some of the most damaging examples of ageism and ableism occur right under our noses as residents living with frailty or different abilities are marginalized, ostracized and segregated from the rest of the population. This webinar will expose some of the most common examples of ageism and ableism in community living settings and provide tools to begin to build a culture of inclusivity.
Link to Webinar: Click Here
Link to Handout: NONE
September 2019
Watch-list huddling: A high-engagement proactive quality practice
60 minutes (1CE)
Guides:
Lynn Snow, Research Clinical Psychologist, Research and Development Service of the Tuscaloosa VA Medical Center
Christine Hartmann, Supervisory Research Health Scientist, Bedford VA Medical Center
Bio:
Dr. A. Lynn Snow is a research clinical psychologist in the Research and Development Service of the Tuscaloosa VA Medical Center and a professor at The University of Alabama (Alabama Research Institute on Aging & Department of Psychology – Geropsychology division). She began working in nursing homes when she was 17 years old and her clinical and research agendas have focused on the nursing home setting for her entire career. She has served on the board of the Alabama Coalition for Culture Change and as a member of the culture change committee at her local VA Community Living Center. Her clinical expertise is in dementia care, particularly assessment and treatment of pain, depression, anxiety, mindfulness, and staff coaching. Her research agenda broadly focuses on nursing home quality of care and dementia care, and specifically on implementation of organizational change toward higher quality person-centered care. Her research has been continuously funded by VA and federal entities since 2000. She has published over 100 peer-reviewed scientific articles. In collaboration with others, including Dr. Hartmann, B&F Consulting, and VA Geriatrics & Extended Care leadership, she currently co-direct a national program in VA nursing homes to establish high-functioning, fully integrated frontline quality improvement systems.
Christine Hartmann is a Supervisory Research Health Scientist at the Bedford VA Medical Center and a Research Associate Professor at Boston University’s School of Public Health. She has devoted her career to improving quality of care and championing person-centered care in nursing homes for the past 15 years. She has served on the culture change committee at her local VA community living center and she has led community living center culture change committees at the national level in the VA. Her research focuses on nursing home person-centered care, resident safety, and care quality. She is the principal investigator for a number of large, VA-funded grants investigating how to improve person-centered care in nursing homes. In collaboration with others, including Dr. Snow, B&F Consulting, and VA Geriatrics & Extended Care leadership, she currently co-directs a national program in VA nursing homes to establish high-functioning, fully integrated frontline quality improvement systems.
Description:
Is your team poised to prevent resident quality problems before they occur? The watch-list huddle is a 15-minute practice that will enable your team to quickly identify and respond to resident conditions that can rapidly exacerbate into full-blow quality crises, thus preventing quality problems before they occur. The watch-list huddle also strengthens your team, improving communication and trust. In this webinar you will: (1) learn what the watch-list huddle practice entails through case examples of successfully implementation in multiple VA community living centers and (2) learn how to create an action plan for implementing the watch-list huddle practice with your own team(s).
Objectives:
Link to Handout: 1
OCTOBER 2019
Breaking Through Dementia: Validation
53 minutes (.75CE)
Guides:
Vicki de Klerk-Rubin, Executive Director of the Validation Training Institute
Description:
Finding ways to more effectively communicate with individuals living with dementia - it's something many of us are searching for. As part of your search, why not learn more about the Validation method, a proven, non-pharmalogical method of communication developed by Social worker and gerontologist Naomi Feil, that helps improve the connection between caregivers and older adults experiencing dementia, also known as cognitive-decline or disorientation.
Link to Webinar: Click Here
Handouts: None
November 2019
Creating Daily Pleasures in Outdoor Spaces: Making it Happen in All Seasons
60 minutes (1CE)
Guide:
Maggie Calkins, PhD, EDAC
Ideas Institute Panelists:
Betsy Miller, Director of Resident Services & Hilary Boucher, Life Enrichment Manager, White Horse Village, Newtown Square, PA
Barbra Hileman, Activity Director, Garvey Manor & Our Lady of the Alleghenies Residence, Hollidaysburg, PA
Bio:
Dr. Maggie Calkins is internationally recognized as a leader in the field of environments for older adults, especially those with Alzheimer's and other dementias. She has spent many years exploring the therapeutic potential of the environment--social and organizational as well as physical--particularly as it relates to older adults in need of support. A member of several national organizations and panels which focus on issues of care for individuals living with dementia, she speaks frequently at conferences both here in the US and abroad.
Description:
For you and me, spending time outdoors is a normal part of life, and something we miss when weather and circumstances keep us indoors for extended periods of time. But for residents living in nursing homes and assisted living communities, and even for elders living in their own homes, opportunities to enjoy outdoor living are often rare, even in ideal weather, but certainly when conditions are less than ideal due to cold, heat, snow or rain. In this webinar, Maggie Calkins, will share WHY being able to enjoy time outdoors is important and HOW care givers and families can support making it happen. She will discuss the health benefits of spending time outdoors in terms of stress, mood, concentration, sleep and more. She will also explore the differences in designing for active and passive use of outdoor spaces and share creative ideas for non-traditional outdoor elements, from green houses to hydroponic gardening to fishing, golfing and yerts. And then team members from 2 Communities will share stories of how they are making it happen, how outdoor living is a part of life for the residents in their homes.
Link to Webinar Part 1: Click HereLink to Webinar Part 2: Click Here Link to Handout: 1 2 3 December 2019
This Holiday Season, Giving the Gift that Keeps Giving: A Conversation with Brian LeBlanc
49 minutes (.75CE)
Guide:
Brian LeBlanc
Bio:
Brian LeBlanc grew up in New Orleans, LA and has lived in the Gulf Coast area since then. He found his niche in the professional world as a Marketing and Public Relations Executive. Diagnosed in October of 2014 with early-onset Alzheimer’s Disease and no longer able to work, Brian made a career change by using his voice to spread awareness and education about living with Alzheimer’s disease. He now spends his time as a keynote speaker and session presenter at international, national and local conferences, seminars and workshops. He also teaches Crisis Intervention Team Training to law enforcement as to how to recognize individuals living with a dementia-related illness. Brian serves on the advisory board of Dementia Action Alliance, the early stage advisory group of the National Alzheimer's Association, is an Alzheimer’s advocate for both the Alzheimer's Pensacola Bay Area and Dementia Alliance International, keynote speaker for Elite Cruises and Vacations for Dementia-Friendly Cruises, and is the author of a blog: https://abitofbriansbrilliance.com.
Description:
Join us for a conversation about how to make the holidays the best they can be not only for persons living with dementia, but for their Care Partners and for each of us. Brian will share his thoughts on things like: what are some of the most meaningful gifts you can give; how can holiday traditions have a positive effect on individuals; and what are well-intentioned things that people do during the holidays that add to the stigmatization created around elders and those living with dementia.
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