Culture Change in Elder Health Care

Day one-A WEL curriculum designed to create better homelike, person-centered communities in traditional institutional settings. (A TWO DAY WORKSHOP - 4 HOURS A DAY)

Day One

  1. What really matters?  ( group exerciseshapeimage_.png )

  2. What is ’ÄúElder Centered Community Service’Äù?

  3. First Things First - An Open Mind Surgery. 


  1. A heajudges.pictlth care generation focused on WELLNESS for a better quality of life

  1. What is WELLNESS?

  1. The Environment as our extended body - Invisible Relations

  1. Nurturing CREATIVITY - A tonic for longevity

  1. The Golden Wheel : Knowing Your Residents - Active Participation

  1. How to nurture deeper and meaningful relations - Community Synergy

    About Dignity and Honesty

    About Better Communication

    Conflicts Can Be Positive and Help Us

  1. How meaningful assessments of elders and profiles of staff, volunteers and vendors are invaluable to better understand and serve all community members.

  1. Nurturing an inclusive community as a representation of the blending and inter-relationships of interest, dreams, skills of all age groups.

  1. How are we listening? With our ears, eyes, touch and much more? Listening for the details. How can we listen for the better?  

Listening Exercise.

Listening For Better Quality of Life (EOFULA Project)

Listening, a skill to Better Serve

  1. How to utilize community resources and volunteers to diversify and enrich the quality of life in our communities in a more creative and cost effective way.

  1. WELLNESS For ALL Community Members ( Assignment for next day )

  1. Quality Indicators for better life ’Äì A common vision and mission

  1. Evaluating our services and programs - Recap What really matters? shapeimage_2.png

  1. DAY 2

  1. The Most Important Of All - Our People

  1. Connecting with watercolorelders.jpgmy-self - Daily Doses of Healing Power

  1. Multiple Communities - Multiple Relations

  1. The ’ÄúJOYFUL I DO’Äù ( Group exercise )

  1. Listening For A Better Life - ’ÄúInformal’Äù Community Gatherings

  1. Team Building Exercise

  1. Person-centered care planning.

  1. How To Incorporate Nature and Color Medicine to Nurture Our Life

  1. Body Language - A Welcoming Invitation?

  1. Journals For A Better Life

  1. Better Ways to Take Care of Our Employees

  1. Our Volunteers and Caregivers = Our fingers.

  1. The importance and value of developing an in-house volunteer program.

  1. Better Methods to Communicate our Programs

  1. Delivering The Unexpected

  1. Each Elders is unique and a miracle... because we LIVE until the day we die.

  1. SO...  WHAT REALLY MATTERS THEN? ( Group Exercise)

Special Request for all participants -

Create a Crazy Hat and bring it to the workshop.

Prepared by Kathy J. Ward

Recreation Therapy Consultant

Clinical Gerontologist

National Assisted Living Administrator Certified

www.recreationtherapyforelders.net

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