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- Designing Gardens to Attract Activity
- Celebrating in Times of COVID
- Using Language to Guide Your Culture Change Journey
- Communication Infrastructure Survey and the Antipsychotic Program Baseline Data Collection Form
- Staff Stability Toolkit
- Improve Your Dementia Support: You Can Start Tomorrow
- Reframing Aging Quick Start Guide
- Long-Term Care Equality Index (LEI): Introducing Best Practices that Strengthen LGBTQ Inclusive Communities
- Supporting the Life Enrichment Team
- Community, Connection and Creativity
- Enhancing the Dining Experience
- Supporting Individuals Living with Dementia
- Food for the Soul
- Resources You Can Use to Educate, Advocate, Warm the Soil, Advance Person-Centered Care and Accelerate Culture Change
- Give the Gift that Keeps Giving
- McNally Cards
- Breaking through Dementia: Validation
- A Cruel Irony: Ageism and Ableism in Senior Living Environments
- It's Happening: How Anti-Ageism Activists are Changing the Culture of Aging
- Preferences for Everyday Living Inventory
- Old School: Anti-Ageism Clearinghouse
- The Double Whammy of Ageism and Ableism
- Framing Strategies to Advance Aging and Address Ageism on Policy Issues
- How Do We Make Sense of the Images We See of Aging and Our Everyday Experiences?
- Staff Retention
- Dress Like a 100-year old Day Call to Action
- Commitment to Challenge Ageism
- The Yellow Book: Meeting of Pioneers in Nursing Home Culture Change
- Commitment to Person-Centered Language
- Commitment to Person-Centered Language Training
- CMS Website Information Related to the New Survey Process 2017
- Revision to State Operations Manual (SOM) Appendix PP for Phase 2, F-Tag Revisions and Related Issues 2017
- CMS Survey and Certification Notice 2017
- LTC FTags Phase 2 Crosswalk 2017
- CMS Guidance for Laws and Regulations for Nursing Home
- National Culture Change Related Organizations
- More than Meds Toolkit
- Engaging Staff in Individualizing Care Communication Map
- Flexible Dining Tip Sheet
- A Free Starter Toolkit for Engaging Staff in Individualizing Care
- A Good Welcome Tip Sheet
- Life Safety Code 2012
- Notes from CMS Final Rule 2016
- Federal Register Containing the CMS Final Rules
- CMS Survey and Certification Letter 2016
- Final Rule to Reform Requirements for Long Term Care (Slides)
- Getting Started: A Pioneering Approach to Culture Change in Long-term Care Organizations
- Dining Practice Standards Toolkit
- Engaging Staff in Individualizing Care: An Implementation Handbook
- Design on a Dollar
- Artifacts of Culture Change
- Just in Time Toolkit - Dining
- The Environmental Side of the Culture Change Movement: Symposium Background
- Just in Time Toolkit - Staffing
- Just in Time Toolkit - Environment
- Promising Practices in Dining
- Transformative Nursing Homes Experience Positive Quality and Financial Outcomes
- Positive Outcomes of Culture Change
- Development of Artifacts of Culture Change
- Culture Change Case Studies
- A Good Welcome Starter Exercise
- A Good Welcome Tipsheet
- Huddles Starter Exercise
- Huddles Tipsheet
- Consistent Assignment Starter Exercise
- Consistent Assignment Tipsheet
- Creating Home in a Nursing Home: Fantasy or Reality (Power Point)
- Creating Home in a Nursing Home: Fantasy or Reality
- Nursing Homes as Places to Live Now and in the Future (Power Point)
- Nursing Homes as Places to Live Now and in the Future
- Private vs Shared Bedrooms
- Low Cost Strategies to Transform Nursing Home Environments: Towards Better Quality of Life
- Flexible Dining Starter Exercise
- Flexible Dining Tipsheet
- The Food and Dining Side of the Culture Change Movement: Dining Symposium Background Paper
- Dining Practice Standards
- Enhancing the Quality of Nursing Home Dining Assistance
- Survey Interpretation of Regulations
- Food, Pharmacy and Culture Change: A Recipe for Success
- The Deep Seated Issue of Choice
- The Role of the Physician Order
- Household Models for Nursing Home Environments
- Side-by-Side Communication Map for Engaging Staff in Individualizing Care
- Continuum of a Person-Directed Culture
- The First 24 Hours - An Unfolding Case In PDC
- Nurse Competencies
- The Learning Circle Rules: Action Pact
- The Learning Circle: Why Use it?
- Storyboard Communication Map for Engaging Staff in Individualizing Care
- Foundational Organizational Practices
- The Language of Culture Change
- The Power of Language to Create Culture
- Getting Started: Selecting and Prioritizing Changes
- Dining Memory and Food for Thought
- Values Card
- Creating Home in the Nursing Home Environment
- Household Models for Nursing Home Environments (Power Point)
- Lighting: Partner in Quality Care Environments
- Home Style Dining Interventions in Nursing Homes: Implications for Practice
- Pathway to Transforming Dining
- Lighting: Partner in Quality Care Environments (Power Point)
- Honoring Preferences When the Choice Involves Risk
Pages
- 2022 Conference Main Page
- 2024 Conference Agenda
- 2024 Conference FAQ
- Artifacts of Culture Change (Overview)
- Better Together 2021: Live Events
- Call for Presentations
- Cart
- Checkout
- Communication Map
- Dementia Resources
- Donate
- Envisioning the Future December 2021
- Envisioning the Future: 2020 and Beyond
- Envisioning the Future: Exploring Lessons Learned
- Exploring Lessons Learned On-Demand
- From Brian’s Brain
- Giving Tuesday 2020
- Home
- Hot Topics
- Listen, Learn, Explore
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- My Account
- Naomi Feil: Envisioning the Future
- Pioneer Partner Network
- Pioneering 2022 RFP
- Pioneering a New Culture of Aging 2022 Conference
- Refund Policy
- Special Sessions
- Store
- About Us
- Vision, Mission & Values
- Board & Staff
- State Coalitions
- Get Involved
- Contact Us
- What Is Culture Change?
- Continuum of Person Directed Culture
- Resource Library
- Events
- What is Culture Change?
- How is Care Changing?
- What are My Care Options?
- What Questions Should I Ask?
- Understanding Elder Care Terms
- Blog
- Pioneer Network Annual Conference
- 2017 Sponsors
- 2018 Conference Session Videos
- 2018 Sponsors and Exhibitors
- 2019 Conference Session Videos
- 2020 Sponsors and Exhibitors
- Call for Presentations
- Concurrent Sessions 2017
- Conference Presenters
- Engagement Expo
- Featured Speakers
- General Sessions
- Hotel and Travel Information
- Intensive Sessions
- Intensive Sessions 2018
- Make the Most of Your Conference Experience
- Posters and Story Boards
- Registration Fees
- Schedule at a Glance
- Site Visits 2018
- Site Visits 2019
- Special Sessions 2018
- Sponsors & Exhibitors
- Location and Hotel
- Exhibitors
- Schedule
- Special Events
- Continuing Education
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- Growing Bolder: Or, Learning How to Risk
- Conference registration is now open!
- Thank you, Naomi Feil
- Save the date! Conference coming November 11-13, 2024
- Thank You, Penny Cook!
- Introducing EmpowerED, eLearning from Green House and Pioneer
- It’s almost conference time! Join us in Pittsburgh July 23-26!
- Good Night Good Morning Routines
- Like, Share and Connect! Using Social Media to Amplify Culture Change
- Resident-Directed Reading Groups in Skilled Nursing Communities? Really?
- An Invitation from Vicki de Klerk
- How Residents are Addressing Loneliness in Long-Term Care
- The Six Cs of Culture Change
- Better Together: Pioneer Network, Green House Project Announce Alliance
- Overcoming the Great Resignation
- #WeAreDementiaStrong Ramps Up Educational Mission
- Challenges to Wellbeing of Frontline Healthcare Employees During COVID-19: A USC Research Study
- Surprising Friendships: Perfect Pair Connects Residents in Assisted Living with College Students
- Keys to Helping People Live Well with Dementia
- Old Hands
- Three Things to Do Now to Retain the Best
- The Importance of Connections: Why they need to be a part of everyday life
- Show us the Money!
- Can We Talk? A Culture of Citizenship
- The Impact of COVID-19 on Scandinavian Living Center
- Person-Centered Care Is the Future
- A True Celebration of CNAs
- Reimagining Dementia: A Creative Coalition for Justice
- COVID and the Chaplain’s Perspective
- Are You Ready to Pay It Forward?
- Envisioning the Future: Exploring Lessons Learned Symposium
- Putting Validation into Action – A Very Personal Story
- The Artifacts of Culture Change (ACC) 2.0 and ACC – AL
- Why We Need More Quiet Strength
- Empathy, Now More Than Ever!
- Let’s Get Serious About the Pandemic’s LTC Mental Health Price Tag
- Nets Beneath Our Hope
- What’s New at Pioneer Network
- Envisioning the Future with Pioneer Network
- The Revolution to Transform the Long-term Care System Begins When We Gather for Envisioning the Future 2020
- Dementia Care and COVID-19: How do we move forward?
- How You Measure Nursing Home Quality Matters
- In These Times of Strife, Can You Do Better?
- Who Knew! Redefining Home Helps Prevent COVID-19
- Lions, Tigers, Bears & Covid-19…OH MY!
- More than Heroes, Nurses!
- Mother’s Day is Sunday, May 10
- Culture in the Time of Pandemic
- Shelter in Place at Park Springs – A Plan for Member Protection and Safety
- Is Person-Centered Care Forsaken in the Midst of the COVID-19 Crisis?
- Blessings from the Heart of Berkeley in a Time of Pandemic
- Engagement and Isolation…Resources to Help Support Both
- Quality of Life – for Whom?
- Mabel
- Oh, the Places We Could Go – The Story of Mr. McNally and Me
- Self-Directed, Mobile Learning Inspires a New Generation of Caregivers
- Staying Connected in Today’s World: The Paradigm Has Shifted!
- Empathy: A Key to Connection and Learning
- The Magic of Music in the Chaos of Long-Term Care
- I’m Sorry. The power in just two little words.
- Workplace Culture: What Direct Care Workers Want You to Know
- Moving Beyond Person-Centered Care to Resident-Driven Communities
- Lessons Learned as we were Making it Happen – Tidbits of Learning from the 2019 Conference
- Stories From the Heart of the Home
- Protecting and Promoting Culture Change Practices: What Surveyors and Nursing Homes Can Do
- Resident Advisory Committee: Fishing Academy
- Person-Centered Care: The Not So Secret Ingredient in Your Next Performance Improvement Plan
- Do We Need to Keep Repeating the Past: Is Bathing Still a Battle?
- Current Controversies in Dementia Care
- Growing Person-Centeredness by Growing Your Network
- The Leadership-Complexity Challenge
- A Manifesto For Radical Inclusion
- Finding Resilience — You Don’t Have to Look Too Hard
- Sentinels of Legacy: Honoring a Legacy of Care Through Art
- The World Needs More Love Letters
- Say “Yes” To Less Stress
- The Alzheimer’s Association Is Working To Transform Dementia Care
- Let’s Talk About Workplace Culture
- Thoughts about Alzheimer’s Disease — Up-Close and Personal
- A Heart Full of Grace
- Being Better than a Stick in the Eye
- A Provider’s Guide to Successfully Reducing Antipsychotic Medications
- Avoiding Institutionalizing Person Centered Care
- The “Network” in Pioneer Network
- #endageism
- A Pioneer Network Guide to the Holidays
- A Family Focused Approach to the Holidays
- Countless Points of Inspiration through the Pioneer Network Conference
- A Thanksgiving Message
- No time to be Merry? ‘Tis the Season to Encourage Care for Caregivers
- Leave A Legacy and Live it Now!
- Supporting Diet Liberalization in Health Care Communities
- A Team Versus a Collection of Individuals
- Sometimes You Just Have to Shake it Up!
- Reviving the Joy of Reading
- Wisdom from our Leaders: The Importance of WHY
- Elders Making a Difference: Recognizing the 2018 Community Commitment Award Recipients
- The Anatomy of a “Change Adept Organization”
- Highlights from Continuing the Conversation: What Does It Take to Move the Mountain?
- 2018 Pioneering a New Culture of Aging Conference Learning Circles
- Taking Time to Fill Your Cup
- A Message to the Community of Pioneers
- Empowering Elders: How Residents Fought for and Won Person-Directed Care
- Starting the Conversation: Bullying, a Reality in the Aging Network
- Montessori For Dementia and Aging: An Approach Worth Learning About
- Caring for Those Who Care: Retaining Your Team Through Revolutionizing the Workplace
- Never Forget: It’s the Simple Things that Count
- The Wisdom of the Sage
- The Culture of Aging Needs to Change for All of Us
- Grow A Culture of Critical Thinking to Calm Survey Angst
- “Weighing In” on a Few Things
- Have You Had an “A-Ha” Today?
- Join Pioneer Network in congratulating the First Green House Homes as they turn 15
- Yes, It IS All About Me!
- Help Wanted!
- I Hope I Get Old Before I Die
- The “Secret Sauce” for High Performance
- While Awaiting A Cure
- Ponderings and Messages of Inspiration from Pioneer Network Elders
- A Parting Gift: Advice from a Sandwich Generation Graduate
- A Person-Centered Approach to Rehab & Recovery
- How do I love ME? Let me Spell it Out.
- The Changing Landscape of Assisted Living
- Having Fun & Opening New Worlds with Technology
- Alzheimer’s Association Dementia Care Practice Recommendations Grounded in Person-Centered Care
- Everyone Has a Story to Tell
- Discussion Around Language: Using the Term “Patient”
- A Heart to Serve
- Pioneer Network is proud to have Penny Cook as our new President & CEO…and we’d like you to Meet Penny Cook
- 10 Must Do’s for Creating and Sustaining a Strong Culture
- Are you still using alarms? It’s definitely time to stop.
- Pain and Dementia: What is Your Role as a Leader?
- Gratitude from Pioneer Network this Thanksgiving Week
- Viewing the World Through Different Eyes: Gaining a Perspective
- Don’t We All Want to Make a Difference
- Running, Thinking, Dreaming, Hoping, Living
- Person-Centered Care and the New Conditions of Participation: It’s About Doing it Right!
- An Inspirational Moment from an Inspirational Conference
- Stuck in the Middle
- Engagements and Long Term Relationships in Healthcare
- Old Age Appreciated: The Positive Aging Movement
- You Are The Hope
- Undercover Boss
- Three Keys to Influencing People
- Here’s What Happens When Great Minds Get Together
- A Quick Look into What Supporting Choice Can Look Like
- Having Fun at the Conference!
- The Buzz from the Pioneer Network Conference
- Convener’s Opening Remarks Pioneer Conference, Rochester, NY, April 19, 1999
- If aging is so awful, how come no one wants to be younger?
- Transformation Through Relationship Based Care
- Why Did the Staff Cross the Road?
- PELI: A Tool to Help You Honor Preferences
- Doing Better Together: Lessons for Oakland
- Mental Health Providers: Key Partners in Putting Relationships and Stories at Center Stage
- Six Easy Ways to Take Music from Entertainment to Engagement in Dementia Care
- WHO is Pioneer Network?
- Ten Myths about Ageing and Health
- Walking Partners: Invigorating Walking Participation in all Ages
- Answering the Call to Action
- Transforming Discouragement
- A Conversation and Commentary on Life in a Green House® Home
- What’s YOUR Research Question?
- One Challenge that Will Transform Your Team!
- Hand in Hand with the Elders at the New Jewish Home
- #Elder Wisdom Campaign Harnesses Great Untapped Resource
- Elder Champions
- 8 Signs the Shortage in Paid Caregivers is Getting Worse
- A Heart to Serve
- Change is Everywhere: Even the Pioneer Network Website!
- Poetry at Sunrise
- Creating and Sustaining the Balance Between the Up-side and the Down-side Risk of LIVING
- The Eight Best Ways to Kill Your Senior Living Culture
- Deepening the Capacity to Lead: Part 2
- Deepening the Capacity to Lead: Part 1
- Why Worry About Words?
- A Fresh Look at Bathing Without a Battle
- ‘Tis the Season for Storytelling
- Making the Leap from Wellness to Well-being…
- 5 Qualities for a Great Nursing Home
- 5 Tips for Team Building
- Culture Change… Why is it so Hard?
- Person-Directed Dining: Don’t Let Fear Keep You From Providing Choice
- Culture Change and the New Long Term Care Regulations
- Helping Families Through Life Transitions
- Helping Families Through Life Transitions
- Family Matters: Developing Relationships Through Family Connections
- Family Matters: Developing Relationships Through Family Connections
- What’s culture change got to do with it? Everything!
- Family Matters: Ways to Improve Staff/Family Communications
- Houston, We Have a Problem
- A Home: More Than Bricks and Mortar
- The Kitchen: The Heart of the Home
- The new CMS nursing home regulations are coming! Are you ready?
- Under-Nutrition: The Dietary Dilemma Older Adults Have in Common
- Scripps Gerontology Center receives grant to improve Ohio’s nursing homes
- The Times They are a Changing…
- Dementia-friendly dining
- Making a Revolution: One Person at a Time
- Back to the Floor
- Have You Hardwired Your Communication System?
- Pioneer Network: Advocating for Elders Wherever They May Live!
- Taking Stock of Person-Centered Care Practices
- Quality Pays — and Person Centered Care is a Path to Quality!
- Inspired Care: Bringing Action Pact’s Household Model® to Australia
- Culture Change or Person Centered Care — What is the Real Journey?
- Category: Editorials and Opinions
- Discovering Ikigai
- Flip the Script on Ageism
- A Once in a Generation Opportunity Reimagining Nursing Homes
- Kicking off the Year with Kindness
- More About Resident-Directed Communities: Findings from a Conversation with Colleagues
- The System is Broken and It Needs a New Paradigm
- Envisioning the Future: Finding Meaning and Purpose Symposium
- We’ve Come so Far…and Yet We Have so Much Further to Go!
- Envisioning the Future for CNAs and Residents
- The Darkest Hour Is Right Before The Dawn
- Are There Do’s and Don’ts When it Comes to Dementia?
- A New Year…New Learning
- A Thanksgiving Message From Pioneer Network’s President & CEO, Penny Cook
- Carter Catlett Williams
- Who Would Have Thought?
- Tired to Inspired
- I’m Dying, but Here’s the Thing… So are you.
- A New Year’s Message from Penny Cook
- Hit hard by aging? Exploring why Facebook’s latest challenge should be challenged.
- A New Culture of Aging — Making it Happen
- A Time for Gratitude
- Planning Ahead to Make Connections in Denver
- Category: Podcasts
- Category: Press Releases
- Category: Stories from the Field
- Category: Uncategorized
Resources
- Designing Gardens to Attract Activity
- Celebrating in Times of COVID
- Using Language to Guide Your Culture Change Journey
- Communication Infrastructure Survey and the Antipsychotic Program Baseline Data Collection Form
- Staff Stability Toolkit
- Improve Your Dementia Support: You Can Start Tomorrow
- Reframing Aging Quick Start Guide
- Long-Term Care Equality Index (LEI): Introducing Best Practices that Strengthen LGBTQ Inclusive Communities
- Supporting the Life Enrichment Team
- Community, Connection and Creativity
- Enhancing the Dining Experience
- Supporting Individuals Living with Dementia
- Food for the Soul
- Resources You Can Use to Educate, Advocate, Warm the Soil, Advance Person-Centered Care and Accelerate Culture Change
- Give the Gift that Keeps Giving
- McNally Cards
- Breaking through Dementia: Validation
- A Cruel Irony: Ageism and Ableism in Senior Living Environments
- It's Happening: How Anti-Ageism Activists are Changing the Culture of Aging
- Preferences for Everyday Living Inventory
- Old School: Anti-Ageism Clearinghouse
- The Double Whammy of Ageism and Ableism
- Framing Strategies to Advance Aging and Address Ageism on Policy Issues
- How Do We Make Sense of the Images We See of Aging and Our Everyday Experiences?
- Staff Retention
- Dress Like a 100-year old Day Call to Action
- Commitment to Challenge Ageism
- The Yellow Book: Meeting of Pioneers in Nursing Home Culture Change
- Commitment to Person-Centered Language
- Commitment to Person-Centered Language Training
- CMS Website Information Related to the New Survey Process 2017
- Revision to State Operations Manual (SOM) Appendix PP for Phase 2, F-Tag Revisions and Related Issues 2017
- CMS Survey and Certification Notice 2017
- LTC FTags Phase 2 Crosswalk 2017
- CMS Guidance for Laws and Regulations for Nursing Home
- National Culture Change Related Organizations
- More than Meds Toolkit
- Engaging Staff in Individualizing Care Communication Map
- Flexible Dining Tip Sheet
- A Free Starter Toolkit for Engaging Staff in Individualizing Care
- A Good Welcome Tip Sheet
- Life Safety Code 2012
- Notes from CMS Final Rule 2016
- Federal Register Containing the CMS Final Rules
- CMS Survey and Certification Letter 2016
- Final Rule to Reform Requirements for Long Term Care (Slides)
- Getting Started: A Pioneering Approach to Culture Change in Long-term Care Organizations
- Dining Practice Standards Toolkit
- Engaging Staff in Individualizing Care: An Implementation Handbook
- Design on a Dollar
- Artifacts of Culture Change
- Just in Time Toolkit - Dining
- The Environmental Side of the Culture Change Movement: Symposium Background
- Just in Time Toolkit - Staffing
- Just in Time Toolkit - Environment
- Promising Practices in Dining
- Transformative Nursing Homes Experience Positive Quality and Financial Outcomes
- Positive Outcomes of Culture Change
- Development of Artifacts of Culture Change
- Culture Change Case Studies
- A Good Welcome Starter Exercise
- A Good Welcome Tipsheet
- Huddles Starter Exercise
- Huddles Tipsheet
- Consistent Assignment Starter Exercise
- Consistent Assignment Tipsheet
- Creating Home in a Nursing Home: Fantasy or Reality (Power Point)
- Creating Home in a Nursing Home: Fantasy or Reality
- Nursing Homes as Places to Live Now and in the Future (Power Point)
- Nursing Homes as Places to Live Now and in the Future
- Private vs Shared Bedrooms
- Low Cost Strategies to Transform Nursing Home Environments: Towards Better Quality of Life
- Flexible Dining Starter Exercise
- Flexible Dining Tipsheet
- The Food and Dining Side of the Culture Change Movement: Dining Symposium Background Paper
- Dining Practice Standards
- Enhancing the Quality of Nursing Home Dining Assistance
- Survey Interpretation of Regulations
- Food, Pharmacy and Culture Change: A Recipe for Success
- The Deep Seated Issue of Choice
- The Role of the Physician Order
- Household Models for Nursing Home Environments
- Side-by-Side Communication Map for Engaging Staff in Individualizing Care
- Continuum of a Person-Directed Culture
- The First 24 Hours - An Unfolding Case In PDC
- Nurse Competencies
- The Learning Circle Rules: Action Pact
- The Learning Circle: Why Use it?
- Storyboard Communication Map for Engaging Staff in Individualizing Care
- Foundational Organizational Practices
- The Language of Culture Change
- The Power of Language to Create Culture
- Getting Started: Selecting and Prioritizing Changes
- Dining Memory and Food for Thought
- Values Card
- Creating Home in the Nursing Home Environment
- Household Models for Nursing Home Environments (Power Point)
- Lighting: Partner in Quality Care Environments
- Home Style Dining Interventions in Nursing Homes: Implications for Practice
- Pathway to Transforming Dining
- Lighting: Partner in Quality Care Environments (Power Point)
- Honoring Preferences When the Choice Involves Risk
Tools & Resources
- Creating a Path Towards Workplace Citizenship
- Dementia Competencies and How to Choose Good Education
- Getting Through the Holidays
- Recharge with a Nature Fix
- Dining Practice Standards
- Innovative Intergenerational Arts Programming in Response to the Pandemic: Five Programs in Three Countries
- Can People with Dementia Read?
- Empowering Elders with Technology
- Artifacts of Culture Change Crosswalk
- Purposeful Engagement: The Challenge, the Opportunity, the Example
- Three Person-Centered Care Strategies to Change the Trajectory for Residents in Senior Living
- The Path to Purposeful Engagement
- Introducing the Artifacts of Culture Change 2.0
- Artifacts of Culture Change 2.0 Introduction and Handouts
- Using Language to Guide Your Culture Change Journey
- Resources You Can Use to Educate, Advocate, Warm the Soil, Advance Person-Centered Care and Accelerate Culture Change
- Long-Term Care Equality Index (LEI): Introducing Best Practices that Strengthen LGBTQ Inclusive Communities
- It’s Happening: How Anti-Ageism Activists are Changing the Culture of Aging
- Improve Your Dementia Support: You Can Start Tomorrow
- Give the Gift that Keeps Giving
- Breaking through Dementia: Validation
- The Double Whammy of Ageism and Ableism
- How Do We Make Sense of the Images We See of Aging and Our Everyday Experiences?
- A Cruel Irony: Ageism and Ableism in Senior Living Environments
- Reframing Aging Quick Start Guide
- Old School: Anti-Ageism Clearinghouse
- Framing Strategies to Advance Aging and Address Ageism on Policy Issues
- The Environmental Side of the Culture Change Movement: Symposium Background
- Private vs Shared Bedrooms
- Nursing Homes as Places to Live Now and in the Future
- Low Cost Strategies to Transform Nursing Home Environments: Towards Better Quality of Life
- Lighting: Partner in Quality Care Environments
- Just in Time Toolkit – Environment
- Household Models for Nursing Home Environments
- Designing Gardens to Attract Activity
- Creating Home in the Nursing Home Environment
- Transformative Nursing Homes Experience Positive Quality and Financial Outcomes
- Positive Outcomes of Culture Change
- Culture Change Case Studies
- The First 24 Hours – An Unfolding Case In PDC
- Side-by-Side Communication Map for Engaging Staff in Individualizing Care
- More than Meds Toolkit
- McNally Cards
- Just in Time Toolkit – Staffing
- Getting Started: Selecting and Prioritizing Changes
- Engaging Staff in Individualizing Care Communication Map
- A Free Starter Toolkit for Engaging Staff in Individualizing Care
- Staff Stability Toolkit
- McNally Cards
- Huddles Tipsheet
- Huddles Starter Exercise
- Consistent Assignment Tipsheet
- Consistent Assignment Starter Exercise
- A Good Welcome Tip Sheet
- A Good Welcome Starter Exercise
- The Role of the Physician Order
- The Food and Dining Side of the Culture Change Movement: Dining Symposium Background Paper
- The Deep Seated Issue of Choice
- Promising Practices in Dining
- Pathway to Transforming Dining
- Just in Time Toolkit – Dining
- Flexible Dining Tipsheet
- Flexible Dining Starter Exercise
- The Power of Language to Create Culture
- The Learning Circle: Why Use it?
- The Learning Circle Rules: Action Pact
- Nurse Competencies
- National Culture Change Related Organizations
- Foundational Organizational Practices
- Continuum of a Person-Directed Culture
- Commitment to Person-Centered Language Training
- Commitment to Person-Centered Language
- Storyboard Communication Map for Engaging Staff in Individualizing Care
- Preferences for Everyday Living Inventory
- Honoring Preferences When the Choice Involves Risk
- Supporting the Life Enrichment Team
- Supporting Individuals Living with Dementia
- Food for the Soul
- Enhancing the Dining Experience
- Commitment to Challenge Ageism
- Community, Connection and Creativity
- Celebrating in Times of COVID
- Dress Like a 100-year old Day Call to Action
- A Cruel Irony: Ageism and Ableism in Senior Living Environments
Events
- Conference Returns to St. Louis — and the Summer — in 2025!
- Turning Passion into Action: Policy Levers for Change
- Rethinking the Dining Environment: Optimizing Outcomes for Residents with Dementia
- Rediscovering the Workplace: Creating an Employee-Centered Culture
- Setting the Table for Person-Directed Dining
- Conference Returns November 2024!
- Pioneer Network and The Green House Project’s Annual Conference
- Creating a Path Towards Workplace Citizenship to Strengthen Employee Retention and Engagement
- Exploring Humanitude® – Bringing the Staff’s Person Directed Care Skills to the Next Level
- Brian's Brain: Time to Let Go
- SAGE and Pioneer Network: Creating Environments Which Support Culture Change
- Becoming a Learning Organization
- SAGE and Pioneer Network: Creating Environments Which Support Culture Change
- From Brian's Brain: No, I'm Not Drunk
- Creating Joy at Work
- WHY Person-Directed Care: A Message to Gerontology Students…and More!
- Resident Voice - Direct from the Board Room
- Reimagining Culture Change – Where Do We Go Now? Providing Person-Directed Care Beyond the Pandemic
- Pioneering a New Culture of Aging: Honoring the Past, Treasuring the Present, Shaping the Future
- Turnover and Retention - Let's Get Real!
- Season 2 of From Brian's Brain
- A Conversation with Linda Cohen, Kindness Catalyst
- 2022 Conference Request for Proposals Open
- Getting Through the Holidays
- Envisioning the Future: More to Do in 2022
- There are No Right Answers: Vaccines, Visitation and Using Ethics to Guide the Road Ahead
- Recharge with a Nature Fix
- How to Use Your Vendor Relationships to Support Meaning, Purpose and Engagement
- Pandemic Endurance – Building Immunity in Partnership with Nature
- Know Each Person - You Bring the Passion, PELI Brings the Process!
- Someone Just for Me: Recognizing a Critical Role for Volunteers
- Can People Living with Dementia Read?
- Empowering Elder Well-Being with Supportive Technology
- How to Use Your Partners to Impact Today's Workforce Challenges
- Envisioning the Future: Finding Meaning & Purpose
- Operationalizing Dignity
- Dignity & Respect - Are Our Aging Parents Getting What They Deserve?
- Living in A Dementia Unit: A View From the Inside
- Innovative Intergenerational Arts Programming in Response to the Pandemic: Five Programs in Three Countries
- Giving and Receiving: Creating a Culture of Relationship with Persons Living with Dementia
- Specialized Seating for Residents and Caregivers: Why Chairs Designed for Use by Older Adults Need to Swivel, Turn and Roll!
- Envisioning the Future – Dementia Care: 2021 and Beyond
- Spring Forward: Three Person Centered Care Strategies to Change the Trajectory for Residents in Senior Living
- Listen, Learn, Explore: A Toolkit To Help State Policymakers Promote Person-Centered Care
- Listen, Learn, Explore Episode 4: Spring Is Here-Time to Reconnect with Mother Nature
- Life is Better in Community: Declare Your Interdependence
- Listen, Learn, Explore Episode 3: Urinary Incontinence: No, We’re not Kidding, Let's Talk about It!
- Listen, Learn, Explore: Do you know ... your residents?
- Envisioning the Future: Exploring Lessons Learned
- Compassionate Leadership in Action
- Listen, Learn, Explore: Did You Know...?
- Introducing Artifacts of Culture Change (ACC) 2.0 & ACC-Assisted Living
- Working Together to Find Our Way to Yes
- A Conversation With Friends on Collective Trauma and Coping Through the Holidays
- Giving Tuesday
- Let’s Talk About Diversity: Honest Advice, Observations, and Conversation
- Envisioning the Future: On-Demand Sessions
- Envisioning the Future: 2020 and Beyond
- Gerontological Nurses as Leaders in the Year of the Nurse
- Let’s Talk About Sex: Intimacy, Sexual Expression, and Living with Dementia
- Human Resources, Interrupted: Improving Retention Through Innovative Employee Engagement Practices
- How Do You Choose? Adopting the Right Technology Solutions to Promote Independence and Well-being as We Age
- Death as a Collaborative Event: Empowering Lessons from End-of-Life Doulas
- Purposeful Engagement- The Challenge, The Opportunity, The Example
- Improve Your Dementia Support: You Can Start Tomorrow
- Long-Term Care Equality Index (LEI): Introducing Best Practices that Strengthen LGBTQ Inclusive Communities
- Back to Basics: Sometimes the Answer is Not a New Shiny Penny!
- Safe / Unsafe Leaving: A New Way to Think About an Old Problem - “Elopement”
- Empathy: The Key to Dementia Inclusive Communities
- Compassion: A Competency for Today’s Aging Services Leader
- Resources You Can Use to Educate, Advocate, Warm the Soil, Advance Person-Centered Care and Accelerate Culture Change (And They’re Free!)
- This Holiday Season, Give the Gift that Keeps Giving: A Conversation with Brian LeBlanc
- Creating Daily Pleasures in Outdoor Spaces: Making It Happen in All Seasons
- Breaking Through Dementia: Validation
- Watch-list Huddling: A High-engagement Proactive Quality Practice
- Applying Person-Centeredness to Trauma-Informed Care: A planned person-centered approach to the new CMS Trauma-Informed Care Regulations
- A Cruel Irony: Ageism and Ableism in Senior Living Environments
- It’s Happening: How Anti-Ageism Activists are Changing the Culture of Aging!
- The Double Whammy of Ageism and Ableism
- Person Centered Dementia Care: First Came the Recommendations, Now Let’s Explore the Outcomes!
- Rules of Participation: Helping to Drive Person Centered Engagement
- How Do We Make Sense of the Images We See of Aging and Our Everyday Experiences?
- Trauma Informed Care: Resilience and Vulnerability
- 2019 Pioneering a New Culture of Aging Conference
- 2019 Conference RFPs due
- Leading. Connecting. Making Things Happen.
- The Process Behind the Passion: How Your Care Community Can Support Person-Directed Care
- Building on the Successes of Phase 2 and Your Facility Assessment
- Dining Practices: Balancing Food Choice and Food Safety
- Change: Managing It to Drive Success
- Addressing the Staffing Crisis
- Story Sharing: Connecting with Residents and their Families - Toward Person-Centered Meaningful care
- Activities of Daily Living – Supporting Independence (Focus on ADL and Rehab Restorative CEP)
- Meet and Go Beyond New CMS Regulations by Engaging Residents with Real Life (focus: Activities Critical Element Pathway)
- The New Alzheimer's Association Dementia Care Practice Recommendations: Supporting the Emotional Well-Being of Individuals Living with Dementia
- A Person-Centered Approach to Infection Prevention (Focus on Urinary-Catheter-UTI and Urinary Incontinence CEP)
- Eliminating Suffering for Residents with End Stage Dementia (Focus on Death and Hospice/End of Life CEP)
- Introduction to Critical Element Pathways (CEP): Using the Physical Restraint CEP to Support Reduction of Alarms
- Pioneering a New Culture of Aging Conference
- #GivingTuesday
- Navigating the Future – Partners in Person-Centered Care
- Leaders Can Influence Clinical Care: Successful Pain Management for Elders Living With Dementia
- Effective Nurse Leadership: Leading Change with Enthusiasm
- Stuck in the Middle - Creating a Supervisor Training Experience for Mid-Level Staff
- Leadership Lessons…from an Old Guy
- At the Table: Before and After the Care Plan Meeting
- At the Table: The Care Plan Meeting in a Resident-Directed World (Part II)
- At the Table: A Process for Care Planning for Resident Choice
- At the Table: The Care Plan Process in a Resident-Directed World (Part I)
- Be The Future: Person-Directed Culture is Happening -- Be Part of It
- Building the Foundation for a New Year: Understanding the Workforce Crisis -- An Introduction to Root Causes and Real Solutions
- Building the Foundation for a New Year: Using Pioneer Network and Other Resources to Guide Your Culture Change Journey
- Building the Foundation for a New Year: The New Regulations -- What They Mean for the Pioneers on Their Journey to Culture Change
- Building the Foundation for a New Year: Using Language to Guide Your Culture Change Journey
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