Guest Columns
Guest Columns
Lessons from the Hill: Can one person make a difference? You bet.
With almost 15 years' experience in grassroots advocacy, working for causes from cancer to Alzheimer's prior to my current focus on aging services, has me convinced: Each and any one of us can have an impact without leaving our home turf.
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.
Reducing the overuse of antipsychotic medication: A person-centered care approach
In recent weeks, a study by the Human Rights Watch has shed light on a serious problem across many facilities where seniors live in America: the over-prescription of antipsychotics to unnecessarily medicate individuals with dementia.
Why I stay in the game: A determined nursing home administrator
There has been a lot of buzz generated by Julie Boggess' piece on leaving the profession from at least a bit of burnout. I am choosing something different. I am choosing to make a difference in the profession, teaching the leaders of the future and doing my best to implement this stuff in my building.
- RELATED TOPICS
- Administrator
- Burnout
Dining and dementia: CBV's Silver Spoon Club puts on the pounds, cultivates connections.
The Silver Spoon Dining Club — an innovative approach to address weight loss issues for residents with late-stage dementia — is not only realizing its goals of improving resident weight loss and reducing nutritional supplement intake. More importantly, it's also bringing socialization and a bounty of "feel good" benefits to residents, non-nursing volunteers and staff at Central Baptist Village.
Hollywood needs to 'wise up'
Who better to tell Hollywood to "wise up" than the California Commission on Aging, the state's leading advocate for healthy, purposeful longevity?
- RELATED TOPICS
- Aging In Media
- Aging Stereotypes
Why I chose to leave the nursing home profession: A fed-up executive's story
At one time, I was a nursing home administrator who was "on fire" about the topic of culture change in long-term care. I believed that working to de-institutionalize the institution was the reason I was guided into the industry over 30 years ago. No more. I couldn't continue.
- RELATED TOPICS
- Administrator
- Over Regulation
Let the positives outnumber the negatives
Easy to list negatives. Easy to become reclusive. No matter when you leave a home. Or retire. No matter the time or age or gender. Be positive in setting the goal, rejoice on reaching it: in a retirement home, in your long-time home, in a new marriage, in a new grandchild — all a new rhythm. Be positive. Reach! Try! Strive! Age allows it.
- RELATED TOPICS
- Aging
- Attitude
- Positive Mental Attitude
Palace residents embrace Yiddish for anti-aging and keeping their heritage alive
When instructor Chany Stolik comes into the classroom at The Palace Coral Gables, her students typically say a "gutn morgn" instead of "Good Morning."
- RELATED TOPICS
- Foreign Language
- Yiddish
How will PBJ impact Five-Star staffing? Would you like one lump or two?
We don't know when, and we don't know how, but when Payroll-Based Journal staffing data replaces the data currently being captured from CMS Form 671 for calculating Five-Star staffing, we are likely going to take several lumps.
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