Blogs, Guest Columns, Things I Think and Living Leadership
Corporate wide challenge spurs on LTC residents
By
Tony Galvan
May 08, 2014
For the past month, residents of Monarch Landing were walking, running or swimming an average of 44 miles each day, as they joined other seniors across the U.S. in Project 1,310. The title reflects the...
Amazing Grace Superstar: The great question of sacred or show-tune music
By
Gary Tetz
May 08, 2014
Nothing is clear these days — in long-term care or life. Everything’s brutally ambiguous. We’re living an endless good-news, bad-news life loop, where all the things we think are good for...
Home is where the heart is
By
Jennifer Petrea, RN
May 07, 2014
There is nothing greater than the reward of wisdom I have acquired through my experience as a nurse. In fact, the biggest reason I became a nurse was to have the opportunity to experience the world through...
I was a better nurse when …
By
Jacqueline Vance, RNC, CDONA/LTC
May 06, 2014
It’s Nurses Day — a day we celebrate all it means to be a nurse. This day gets me into deep thinking. Particularly about the core of a nurse and how sometimes — even if we don’t want it...
Addressing quality of death
By
Linda Elizaitis
May 05, 2014
What do you do when a resident crosses the threshold and your organization needs to address quality of death? We all know that there is a great emphasis, appropriately so, on a resident’s quality...
In the wake of a nursing home double-homicide: How to meet mental health needs and prevent violence
By
Eleanor Feldman Barbera, Ph.D.
May 01, 2014
News of the recent double-homicide in a Houston nursing home arrived the morning I was to speak to a group gathered to address the needs of younger residents in long-term care. It didn’t escape anyone...
Beyond ‘Busy’: Meaning making and engagement in therapeutic activities
By
Mary Farkas
Apr 30, 2014
Finding a way to engage in the world, make connections, and feel that we are contributing meaningfully is a key function in life for all of us.
Sentenced to a nursing home
By
Gary Tetz
Apr 29, 2014
Here’s an innovative new way, and maybe the only one you haven’t already tried, to make sure more people visit your lonely nursing home residents. Sentence them to do it.
Reducing the threat of carbon monoxide poisoning
By
Betty Norman
Apr 28, 2014
More than 400 Americans die from unintentional CO poisoning every year, and fatalities are highest among older adults. Though CO is a threat to every residential facility, long-term care facilities should...
Transforming communities with the household model of care
By
Stephen Proctor
Apr 25, 2014
We can agree on one thing: the traditional model of nursing homes is becoming outdated. Namely, models that involve centralized care management, large commercial kitchens, common therapy spaces, and medicine...