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Jennifer Carson, PhD and Pat Sprigg, CEO

Beyond Being Known: Being Celebrated

March 5, 2019 by Jennifer Carson, PhD and Pat Sprigg, CEO

Beyond Being Known: Being Celebrated - ChangingAging

Residents are well known at Carol Woods Retirement Community. But there is a difference between being well known and being celebrated. Residents, employee and family care partners of the Building 6 and 7 assisted living neighborhood at Carol Woods are striving toward the latter. Kay, a resident, explains: We want to be, not a family, […]

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Fostering Our Collective Capacity to Work through Complex Issues

August 28, 2018 by Jennifer Carson, PhD and Pat Sprigg, CEO

Embracing Complexity on the Quest Upstream - ChangingAging 1

There is a common tendency to address these challenges with simple or complicated solutions more befitting of the inanimate. We believe the best solutions, while ever-changing, will come from the community itself, and each community is different.

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No Control Freaks Allowed: Embracing the Complexity of Dementia Support

August 11, 2018 by Jennifer Carson, PhD and Pat Sprigg, CEO

No Control Freaks Allowed: Embracing the Complexity of Dementia Support - ChangingAging

No matter how much we wish for simple answers, life does not work that way. In order to navigate life, we must embrace its complexity. Dementia support is no different.

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The Quest Upstream

May 3, 2018 by Jennifer Carson, PhD and Pat Sprigg, CEO

The Quest Upstream - ChangingAging

Imagine a dementia-inclusive community; a place where each person’s uniqueness is valued, deep relationships flourish and differences are embraced. Imagine a dementia-inclusive community where each person’s perceptions and experience of the world, while often different than our own, are taken into account and honored.

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