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Household Matters: A Good Life 'Round the Clock
A Compendium for the New Horizon of Long-Term Care
With support from Commonwealth Fund, Sunflower Foundation and the Kansas Department on Aging, Meadowlark Hills has worked with Action Pact, Inc. to create an integrated toolkit of materials and systems for use by long-term care providers (and others) with a stake in transforming the culture of nursing homes in a sustainable fashion.
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Getting Started
The 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.
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$199.00
A Tale of Transformation DVD & Workbook
A Tale of Transformation: Four Stages Tell the Story
, focuses on the work by Leslie A. Grant, PhD of University of Minnesota and LaVrene Norton, MSW of Action Pact, Inc. It is filled with images, learning circles, and stories of culture change that will guide you whether you're at the earliest stage (institutional) or have already transformed your facility and energized your staff in the transformational and neighborhood stages, or completely renovated into the Household Model. The workbook includes exercises, team activities specific to each stage.
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Advocating for the New Old Age: A Pioneer Network Call to Action DVD
Pioneer Network believes that past and the present models of care do not have to be the future. In this video, Pioneer Network invites you to meet Imogene (age 90), her family and others across America who describe the need for a culture of aging where the individual does not become lost; and a culture of aging that is respectful, meaningful, and supports their legacy.
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Pioneer Network CMS VHS
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) broadcast a live 2 1/2 hr presentation via satellite and Internet that introduced the Pioneer Network. This video of the broadcast increases surveyors' knowledge of the Pioneer values and innovative practices in nursing homes and other long term care environments...
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Pioneer Network CMS DVD
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) broadcast a live 2 1/2 hr presentation via satellite and Internet that introduced the Pioneer Network. This video of the broadcast increases surveyors' knowledge of the Pioneer values and innovative practices in nursing homes and other long term care environments...
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CMS -Integrating Individualized Care and Quality Improvement DVD
Many participants in the transformation from institutional to individualized care have questions regarding compliance with current regulatory guidelines. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has embarked on a four part series to explore these and many other issues...
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Pioneer Network Convener's Opening Remarks
A book of speeches given by Carter Catlett Williams
A compilation of convener Carter Williams inspirational opening remarks for the Pioneer Network's National Conferences from the first conference in 1999 to the 7th National Conference 2008.
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The Yellow Book: Meeting of Pioneers in Nursing Home Culture Change
March 16-17, 1997
Rochester, New York
Leaders of four pioneering approaches to culture change in nursing homes met March 14-16, 1997, in Rochester, New York, along with 28 invited participants drawn from across the nation representing the fields of regulation and law, nursing home administration, directors of nursing and social workers.
The Yellow Book
is the published report of their historic work.
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The Green Book: Tbe Pioneer Challenge
A Radical Change in the Culture of Nursing Homes
Wendy Lustbader, M.S.W.
Spontaneity. Self-direction. Relationships. Community. Privacy. Meaning. Why do these qualities not describe a typical nursing home in America? Why must we forfeit the basic freedoms of life when we become frail and need assistance? Instead, the acute care model has been dominant in nursing homes for decades. The Green Book challenges us to embrace transformation and culture change.
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The Red Book: Relationship: The Heart of Life and Long-Term Care
By Carter Catlett Williams
Carter Catlett Williams shares her guiding philosophy embraced by many in the culture change movement that "relationships are not only the heart of long-term care, they are the heart of life. And life ought to to continue, wherever we live."
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The Purple Book: The Sanctity of Life and the Sacredness of Death:
A Journey of Putting Pioneer Values into Practice
by Rev. Julie Berndt
Values in practice are at the heart of the work of caring for elders. If you talk with staff involved in long term care for decades, time and time again the discussion returns to the power of the relationships that were built: resident with staff, staff with family, resident with resident and staff with staff. These relationships are especially important when a loved one departs this life.
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Culture Change in Long-Term Care
A Book by Audrey S. Weiner and Judah L. Ronch
"A very important addition to the literature about nursing homes, homes for the aged, geriatric care centers, public long-term care hospitals -- all of the congregate living arrangements for functionally dependent older people. This collection illuminates the historical roots of our present-day system, and at the same time, identifies problems and issues that must be faced as the direction of long-term care is charted for the future...
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Glorious Adventure
A book by Carter Catlett Williams
Too many of us believe that there is little of worth that happens in later life. We dread our own aging, as though adventure and passion are used up and all that remains is a penchant for repeating the old stories. Glorious Adventure, by Pioneer Network's convener Carter Williams, shows how much awaits us -- if we dare.
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Old Age in a New Age -- The Promise of Transformative Nursing Homes
A book by Beth Baker
When her grandmother "lost her spark" after moving into a conventional, medical model nursing home, Beth Baker assumed it was the result of old age and frailty. But after four years of extensive research for her new book,
Old Age in a New Age: The Promise of Transformative Nursing Homes
, the writer and former hospital worker is no longer so sure.
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Dancing With Rose
A Book by Lauren Kessler
Like many loved ones of Alzheimer's sufferers, Lauren Kessler was devastated by the ravaging disease that seemed to turn her mother into another person before claiming her life. To better understand the confounding aspects of living with a condition that afflicts four and a half million people a year, Kessler, an accomplished journalist, enlists as a bottom-rung caregiver at a residential Alzheimer's facility she calls Maplewood.
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