Category: Archive: Jun 2017

Comfort in Counseling for People with Early-Stage Alzheimer’s Disease

An early-stage Alzheimer’s disease diagnosis can feel devastating, yet there is hope and support available. Robyn Yale, who pioneered some of the first available support groups for people with early-stage Alzheimer’s disease, discusses the healing powers of counseling for people who have received an early-stage Alzheimer’s diagnosis. Her book, Counseling People with Early-Stage Alzheimer’s Disease: A Powerful Process of Transformation, provides practitioners with an innovative therapeutic model specifically designed to meet the unique needs of clients living with Alzheimer’s. The book’s counseling methods not only help people cope with and adjust to…

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Growing a Person-Centered Community

Download this handy infographic on shifting your thinking away from the institutional model of care, and growing your organization into a person-centered one.   Read the book! Lessons in Leadership for Person-Centered Elder Care By Nancy Fox Copyright © 2017 by Health Professions Press, Inc. Lead your organization to success in person-centered care, using these expert leadership and management lessons! Learn more…

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How to Find a Story

This is a guest post by Rosann Moore, CTRS, from www.CaregiversActivitySource.com.  Mention President Dwight Eisenhower, and my dad will tell you the story of how he encountered him one time in England during World War II. While performing training drills with about 20 other soldiers, my dad saw General Eisenhower pull up in a black limousine. He got out of his car and jumped atop a tank. He gave an impromptu speech to my dad and his fellow soldiers about how they would soon do something very special. Eisenhower could not be specific with what it was…

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Leadership: Institutional vs. Person-Centered

What is person-centered leadership? Author Nancy Fox argues that it is the exact opposite of the outdated and harmful institutional leadership model. Here’s why. This post was adapted from Lessons in Leadership for Person-Centered Elder Care by Nancy Fox. Copyright © 2017 by Health Professions Press, Inc. All rights reserved.  Have you ever been at a party and had someone leave the table to “toilet” themselves? Have you ever heard someone refer to their grandmother as “the feeder?” These are examples of horrendous language the institutional model in long-term care has given us. Indeed, there is much…

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