Tag Archives: Dementia care

Long-term care

Engaging Residents With Personalized Music

Editor’s Note: The Lutheran Home of Southbury’s “Music and Memory” program was recognized as a finalist for the 2018 Sherman Award for Excellence in Patient Engagement. The Sherman Award is co-sponsored by Taylor Healthcare and the IHI/NPSF Lucian Leape Institute. In addition to selecting Sherman Award winners each year, the judges name finalists when the caliber of their projects warrant special […]

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Janice Lexton is the quality assurance nurse at the Lutheran Home of Southbury, in Southbury, Connecticut. In that role, she incorporates evidence-based practice to improve resident care. She has led several quality improvement projects at the facility, including reducing antipsychotic medications, fall prevention, developing a congestive heart failure program and enthusiastically supporting all departments in their quality improvement efforts. Janice received her doctorate of nursing practice from Northeastern University in Boston Massachusetts. She is a member of Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing. Janice is Board Certified in gerontological nursing through the American Nurses Association and received certification as a Quality Certified Professional through the American Association of Nurse Assessment Coordination in partnership with the American Association of Director of Nursing Services.

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A Call to Action

Alzheimer’s Care Offers Unique Challenges and Opportunities

Editor’s Note: In honor of World Alzheimer’s Day on Sept. 21, we offer this Encore presentation of Christine Winters’ 2014 post about engaging the Alzheimer’s patient. Alzheimer’s patients offer significant challenges and providers often are challenged by how to offer appropriate care. Every 67 seconds, someone develops Alzheimer’s in the U.S. It’s an irreversible, progressive […]

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Arundi Venkayya Arundi Venkayya is marketing and public relations manager for Taylor Healthcare, curator of EngagingPatients.org and administrator of the Sherman Award program which recognizes excellence in patient and family engagement. Before joining Taylor Healthcare, Arundi was an editor at the Dayton Daily News and served as public relations manager for Dayton Children's Hospital.

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Patient-Centered Care

Becoming Dementia Friendly: a Strategic Imperative for Health Care

Next week begins National Caregivers Month, and new statistics from the AARP and National Alliance for Caregiving show that non-paid family caregivers are becoming a diverse group. While still predominantly baby boomer women, millennials hit the radar, making up 25 percent of family caregivers, split evenly between men and women. That’s 10 million people. Clearly, […]

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Anthony Cirillo, FACHE Anthony is president of The Aging Experience. He helps organizations craft experiences and seize opportunities the mature marketplace. He helps family caregivers thrive and individuals make educated aging decisions. A consultant and professional speaker, Anthony is a monthly contributor on The Charlotte Today program, the about.com expert in Senior Care, an executive board member of CCAL, and a member of the Dementia Action Alliance. In his home community, he participates in Huntersville CARES, a dementia-friendly community initiative, and is a board member of the Lake Norman Family Health Clinic. As someone who helped launch the patient experience movement, Anthony has a unique ability to envision the future state of health care, see solutions before others see problems and formulate answers before people understand the question. He has been called innovative, inventive, original and resourceful. He provides logical support for futuristic thinking and makes difficult to understand ideas easier for people to comprehend. Anthony can connect the dots in healthcare. CEOs retain him for big- picture thinking.

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Better Care Across the Continuum

Changing the Culture of Aging Care – We Have Far to Go

I spoke at two conferences recently and came away from each with perspectives that suggest we have a long way to go in making progress toward dementia, including Alzheimer’s care. Accounting for Dementia At an annual conference of healthcare executives in Chicago, if there was one, there were 10 population health-related seminars on the agenda. […]

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Anthony Cirillo, FACHE Anthony is president of The Aging Experience. He helps organizations craft experiences and seize opportunities the mature marketplace. He helps family caregivers thrive and individuals make educated aging decisions. A consultant and professional speaker, Anthony is a monthly contributor on The Charlotte Today program, the about.com expert in Senior Care, an executive board member of CCAL, and a member of the Dementia Action Alliance. In his home community, he participates in Huntersville CARES, a dementia-friendly community initiative, and is a board member of the Lake Norman Family Health Clinic. As someone who helped launch the patient experience movement, Anthony has a unique ability to envision the future state of health care, see solutions before others see problems and formulate answers before people understand the question. He has been called innovative, inventive, original and resourceful. He provides logical support for futuristic thinking and makes difficult to understand ideas easier for people to comprehend. Anthony can connect the dots in healthcare. CEOs retain him for big- picture thinking.

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