Culture Change
British Parliament Takes a Look at The Green House Project
The Green House Project isn’t just making waves in the U.S. The model’s innovative transformation of nursing home care was the subject of a British Parliamentary hearing this week on the future of caregiving in the UK. A British researcher who recently visited the United States testified before the Parliament Health Committee Tuesday, Jan. 10, that Britain should look at the Green House model as the future of nursing home care.
Full Story »Ecumen Bethany Community Receives Major Gift: $340,000
In an honoring testament to Ecumen Bethany Community’s culture of caring, former residents Leonard and Irene Kalina included Bethany in their estate plans — to the tune of $340,000! The Kalinas lived together at Ecumen Bethany Home since 2006, until…
Full Story »Senior Housing – A Part of "Aging With No Regrets" for Many
In an earlier blog post, we highlighted a new book – 30 Lessons for Living: Tried and True Advice from the Wisest Americans, authored by Karl Pillemer, the head of Cornell University’s Legacy Project, I found this item below interesting from N.Y. Times…
Full Story »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 th…
Full Story »Are Social Impact Bonds (SIBs) the Next Small Thing (NST)
I sometimes think we need a name for those ideas which, whilst they are not necessarily nonsense, get blown up on rather shaky evidence, into the next big thing. They are usually ideas that: have a cool-sounding, or failing that mystifying name, usually reduced to an acronym apparently have the potential to solve a dizzying [...]
Gay Seniors: Housing and Community Options
We posted last fall about limited housing options for gay and lesbian seniors. (See here and here.) This article in USA Today offers information about the current situation in Philadelphia, a city we consider senior-friendly in many ways.
Full Story »Changing Aging as a Construct of our Culture
‘Aging is integral to our humanity,’ says the founder of the Eden AlternativeAs a young doctor leaping into the world of medicine, Dr. Bill Thomas thrived in the fast pace of hospital emergency rooms, but his life was forever changed when he looked…
Full Story »Dale Carter’s Eden Alternative Interview on BlogTalk Radio
The past two posts here on AsOurParentsAge have described the Woodland Park groundbreaking for Green House® homes at Virginia Mennonite Retirement Community (VMRC). A good deal of the Green House project philosophical basics grew out of Eden Alter…
Full Story »Forbes Magazine, NCB Capital Impact Finds Opportunity in Innovative Initiatives like The Green House Project
Capital Impact, COO, Annie Donovan, is interviewed in Forbes Magazine, to talk about the work that Capital Impact does to support people and communities to live to their highest potential at every stage of life, “Our overarching goal is to … Continue reading →
Full Story »Dr. Bill Thomas Help! Aging Parents
Dr. Thomas's philosophy challenges the traditional concept of institutional care centers and home care. He notes most people live very happily at home, yet …helpparentsagewell.com/tag/dr-bill-thomas/
Full Story »One Day Toward Culture Change January 30, 2012 LTC
One Day Toward Culture Change at John Knox Village January 2012 Person directed care and culture change improves the lives of individuals living in …https://health.mo.gov/ltcblog/?p=955
Full Story »Green House Project As Our Parents Age
January 7, 2012 Posted by Marti Weston | aging parents, Caregiving, elder care, Green House Project | Caregiving, elderly, Green House Project, nursing care, …asourparentsage.net/tag/green-house-project/
Full Story »Choice vs. Consent
By Kathy McCollett, Organizational Culture Change Specialist, PHI Let me start by saying that there is a huge difference between consenting to do something and choosing to do something. When health care professionals use the phrase “informed consent,” it generally means that after receiving information and advice, the nursing home resident is agreeing to do [...]
The Green House Project research study: “Prove it works.”
You wouldn’t buy an expensive medication without confidence that it works, would you? Because the Green House model requires an investment, people are asking for evidence that it works and to understand why it works. In response, the Green House Project has partnered with THRIVE (The Research Initiative Valuing Eldercare), funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, to learn more about how the Green House model works and how it differs from other models of care.
Full Story »Changing the Old Culture of Old
In a nutshell, people define their culture and thus, people define its evolution.
In imagining the future of elder care in a society that isn’t getting any younger, and seeking out the visionaries who’re blazing the path to a new approach, the term culture change comes up a lot.
Full Story »Making the Visible Shift to Resident-centred Care
Upgraded dining rooms part of ongoing transformation at Edmonton’s CapitalCareIt has long been recognized that the kitchen is the heart of any home, but for far too many elderly residents in long-term care, comfort can be hard to come by in the steri…
Full Story »Culture Change at Country Largest Home Health Agency Profiled
A new joint publication of PHI and the Pioneer Network details how Partners in Care (PIC), the country's largest home health agency, changed its culture, increased staff morale, and lowered turnover. The profile (pdf) explains how PIC's …PHIn…
Full Story »Culture Change Nursing Homes as Clinical Training Sites
Culture Change Nursing Homes as Clinical Training Sites: Recommendations to the Field. The Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing at the New York University College of Nursing, in collaboration with the American Association of Colleges of …
Full Story »Video Resources Available for “Meeting the Leadership Challenge in Long-Term Care”
With funding from Picker Institute, the team that produced the best-selling “Meeting the Leadership Challenge in Long-Term Care: What you do matters” has developed a series of multimedia resources that build on the book’s content. Click here to visit the … Continue reading →
Full Story »New leaders bring change to nursing home
"I'm trying to bring a culture change and person-centered care. We want this to be their home." Galbraith, who started at Village Care this week, has spent roughly 20 years as a nurse and administrator at long-term care facilities. …See…
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