"Demonstration of Successful Models: A Recipe for Living Well"

Presenter: Karen Nichols, RN, NHA, Executive Director, The Cascades Verdae (www.thecascades...)
You usually don't expect to hear the words "innovative" and "long-term senior care" in the same sentence. Fortunately, that wasn't the case with Karen Nichols, Executive Director at The Cascades Verdae, a leading edge senior community in Greenville, SC. Ms. Nichols will discuss how cultural change in long-term care can help you address the helplessness, loneliness, and boredom faced by seniors, how you can you help those in your care adjust to "those strangers" taking care of them, and what longevity research says about long-term care and its impact.
Objectives:
1. Build common knowledge and ensure an understanding of the principles of culture change and person-centered care in long-term care settings
2. Identify ways in which culture change is already occurring and can be fostered and nurtured in the near future
3. Identify and address concerns which regulatory agencies and legislators may be able to address so that culture change progress can continue
4. Increase awareness, facilitate information sharing and promote partnerships between all stakeholders of aging services in Georgia.
Part 1: "Wanting to Dance When You're Expected to March: Pioneering Approaches in Long-Term Care" • "Wanting to Dance When...
Part 3: "Celebrating the Vision for Georgia: Cultural Change and Person Centered Care" • "Culture Change and Pe...
Program Sponsors:
Three Rivers AHEC @ www.threerivers...
University of Georgia Institute of Gerontology @ www.publichealt...
You usually don't expect to hear the words "innovative" and "long-term senior care" in the same sentence. Fortunately, that wasn't the case with Karen Nichols, Executive Director at The Cascades Verdae, a leading edge senior community in Greenville, SC. Ms. Nichols will discuss how cultural change in long-term care can help you address the helplessness, loneliness, and boredom faced by seniors, how you can you help those in your care adjust to "those strangers" taking care of them, and what longevity research says about long-term care and its impact.
Objectives:
1. Build common knowledge and ensure an understanding of the principles of culture change and person-centered care in long-term care settings
2. Identify ways in which culture change is already occurring and can be fostered and nurtured in the near future
3. Identify and address concerns which regulatory agencies and legislators may be able to address so that culture change progress can continue
4. Increase awareness, facilitate information sharing and promote partnerships between all stakeholders of aging services in Georgia.
Part 1: "Wanting to Dance When You're Expected to March: Pioneering Approaches in Long-Term Care" • "Wanting to Dance When...
Part 2: "Celebrating the Vision for Georgia: Cultural Change and Person Centered Care" • "Culture Change and Pe...
Program Sponsors:
Three Rivers AHEC @ www.threerivers...
University of Georgia Institute of Gerontology @ www.publichealt...
Our Important Links:
Institute of Gerontology at the University of Georgia: www.publichealt...
Georgia Geriatric Education Center (Resources and training about best practices in the aging field): training.geron....
List of aging resources: training.geron....
UGA Gerontology RUclips Channel: / ugagerontology
UGA Gerontology Vimeo Channel: vimeo.com/chann...
Elder Cohousing & Other Intentional Communities: www.geron.uga.e...

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You'll never meet another person as amazing as karen nichols....Nichols..... a rare privilege in the south east!