Resources: Dementia-Friendly Environments
How to make a Sensory Room for People Living with Dementia
Tips on Creating Dementia Friendly Environments
Virtual Reality Applications for People Living With Dementia
Get Ready for Special Recognitions and Celebrations in July
Celebrate all month long in July!
Family Caregiving from a Distance: A New and Understudied Trend
Long-distance caregiving is a growing phenomenon, but most research focuses on caregivers who live close.
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Before You Say “Sit” – Try These Tips to Keep Cognitively Impaired Residents Moving
Susan Saldibar recently offered that seniors need to stay active and mobile as long as possible. We’ve all read the studies indicating that prolonged sitting can lead to a more rapid decline of both...
For Your Board
Here are some resources that CEOs and Administrators can use with their boards to more effectively fulfill their ethical, legal and fiduciary responsibilities. Some are shorter, such as the video on the fiduciary responsibilities...
Dementia Resources
Here are the latest resources about Alzheimer’s and related dementias.
Caring for Individuals with Alzheimer’s Disease or Related Dementias (ADRD)--A comparison of caregivers who have a care recipient (CR) with Alzheimer’s Disease or Related...
Flu Season Will Be Here Before You Know It – Read This
The CDC LTC Employer Flu Vaccine Toolkit -- Pass this on to your Nursing and Infection Control leadership.
Concerned About Aging in Place? CAST’s Updated Telehealth Portfolio Can Help
LeadingAge CAST has released an update to its portfolio of tools focusing on Telehealth and Remote Patient Monitoring for Long-Term and Post-Acute Care. The portfolio is designed to help providers understand, plan for, select,...
Study Finds Little Consistency For UTI Prevention in Nursing Homes
A survey of nearly 1,000 nursing homes in the U.S. found little consistency across nursing homes of policies implemented to prevent urinary tract infections (UTIs), according to a new study presented at the 43rd Annual Conference of...
IA-ADAPT: Improving Antipsychotic Appropriateness in People Living with Dementia
This website includes information and resources to help clinicians, providers, nurses, direct caregiver and consumers better understand how to manage problem behaviors and psychosis in people with dementia using evidence-based approaches. This includes brief...
Great Resident Engagement Idea Ripe for Replication
A continuing care retirement community in California is taking resident engagement and intergenerational programming to the next level this summer by offering an on-campus camp for area fourth graders, and they are gleaning benefits...
End Imposter Syndrome in Your Workplace
In February 2021, we offered one simple idea: Stop telling women they have imposter syndrome. Since then, fixing the places where women work instead of fixing women at work has become a rallying cry for women of all races...