PRICE REDUCEDThe Pioneer Network partnered with the Paraprofessional Healthcare Institute to produce this powerful tool for organizations that are beginning the process of de-institutionalizing services and individualizing care. It is a resource filled with exercises and tools for individuals at all levels of an organization. Getting Started is based upon dozens of interviews with leaders in long-term care organizations who have been on the journey toward cultural transformation for three or more years. Learn moreNEW! Getting Started has expanded with new chapter, "Selecting and Prioritizing Changes," published in August 2010. If you already own Getting Started download your free copy of Chapter 5.
This is a book all gerontologists should read and savor,[as well as] historians, sociologists [and] psychologists...Carter writes so eloquently and with such sensitivity about her father and his journey, and also about their relationship with each other that readers cannot help but learn about family dynamics...[She says,] "My father's letters have given me new life to be reckoned with and reconsideration of the old...I want others to know that an adventure such as this is possible in later life."- Rose Dobrof, DSW, Founding Director of The Brookdale Center and Professor Emerita, The Graduate Center of The City University of New York.