Blogs, Guest Columns, Things I Think and Living Leadership
Celebrating 40 years of AMDA
By
Chris Laxton
Apr 07, 2017
Even since I joined the Society as Executive Director four years ago, I have seen the Society and the setting change a great deal.
If pigs could fly
By
Gary Tetz
Apr 06, 2017
Forget all the bad news of late. It doesn’t matter. Not now that pig bladder has been found to hold healing promise for diabetic foot ulcers.
Creativity, cognition and coloring
By
Margaret Carlock-Russo, Ed.D.
Apr 05, 2017
As awareness of mindfulness and stress management self-care techniques grows, adults are rediscovering the simple pleasures of engaging in coloring to relax, while also improving their brain function.
You can’t build a faster horse
By
Jacqueline Vance, RNC, CDONA/LTC
Apr 04, 2017
I was taking with someone about innovation. They told me about a famous quote from Henry Ford. Supposedly he said, “If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said ‘faster horses.'”
Community-based care models that reduce re-hospitalization
By
Cyndi Seiwert
Apr 03, 2017
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ Bundled Payments for Care Improvement (BPCI) initiative has handed skilled nursing facility professionals an opportunity to play a greater role in post-discharge...
Getting started with culture change
By
Ryan Myracle
Mar 31, 2017
One question that has come up repeatedly over the years when I have been working with leaders that are new to the idea of culture change is, “Where do I start?”
It’s time to get away
By
Julie Thorson
Mar 30, 2017
We were not meant to work without time to reflect and have a break.
The SNF mental health revolution
By
Richard Juman, Psy.D
Mar 29, 2017
SNF administrators must ask themselves, “Did we provide the kind of care the resident really needed to maximize her ‘whole emotional and mental well-being?'”
Enthusiasm and ingenious inventions at the NYC Aging2.0 Global Startup Pitch Event
By
Eleanor Feldman Barbera, Ph.D.
Mar 28, 2017
Moving beyond the development of medical products for seniors, Aging2.0 seeks to facilitate collaborations between senior care providers and entrepreneurs to create products and services that can be integrated...
Where are we going with long-term care?
By
Robert L. Kane, M.D.
Mar 27, 2017
Long-term care was never planned. It was never even consistently defined. A generally useful definition is that it is a set of services to assist persons who have lost, or never acquired, basic capabilities...