What is purposeful engagement?
Resident engagement professionals know that engagement is so much more than just providing activities to occupy residents each day.
Most recent articles by Charles de Vilmorin
Creating opportunities to live with purpose
To overcome obstacles that prevent meaningful resident engagement, providers can start by providing activity professionals with the time, tools, and budget they need to succeed.
Overcoming obstacles to optimizing engagement
Last fall, Linked Senior collected information from activity directors across the country to determine what they love most about their work and what challenges they face day-to-day, especially when it comes to their ability to meaningfully engage the residents in their care. More than 300 people responded to the survey and shared some eye-opening insights:
High engagement associated with positive health outcomes
These research findings build on a growing body of academic work that examines how therapeutic engagement can positively impact the health and well-being of older adults living with cognitive impairment, including Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias.
Elevate your CEO position
In senior care, activity directors are often underpaid, overworked, lacking respect from colleagues and asked to document their work each day using cumbersome paper-based strategies. A national Linked Senior survey of more than 300 activity directors uncovered that more than half of survey participants indicated that documentation is the most challenging part of their work…
There is a new CEO in town
Prioritizing engagement in a community means providing those whose job it is to lead those efforts with the time, tools, and budget they need to succeed.
Are your residents getting the drug or the VIP treatment?
Most older adults in the United States would prefer to live in their own homes and communities as they age.
Ignite purpose with engagement
Too often the senior care industry focuses on negative outcomes and the “clinical” part of the aging experience. Yet, there is much to be said about aging that is positive, and focusing on the benefits of growing old can increase the success of communities worldwide by making them more intergenerational and interdependent.
Fulfilling needs to support purposeful living
To move from providing only the most basic of needs (shelter, safety and physiological support), providers need to understand how optimizing their engagement strategy can move their residents up on Maslow’s pyramid.
Why your resident engagement metrics aren’t working
A community cannot simply use a non-drug intervention and anticipate immediate results and a person-centered status.
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