Often managerial decisions are top-down. While that process has its place, an evaluative instrument using specific assessment criteria of an individual, manager or employee, will help pinpoint a communication...
Transformation communication in healthcare
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Herb Hildebrandt, Ph.D, Hl.D.
Jun 16, 2019
Extensive testing with many scholarly colleagues sought benchmarks in answer to the question “Which criteria-terms relate to bringing change in an organization via oral or written communication?”
Hedonism in the neighborhood CCRC?
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Herb Hildebrandt, Ph.D, Hl.D.
Nov 15, 2019
Hedonism isn’t necessarily the first term that comes to mind when thinking of senior care communities. Yet the word occasionally appears in research articles that relate to residential and community...
Do you have a silo mentality in your residential facility?
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Herb Hildebrandt, Ph.D, Hl.D.
Feb 07, 2020
A generalization: Most groups, such as seniors living in retirement communities, have within them social, professional territories. That is, there is an assumption that groups, clusters, committees, political...
Technology and the senior ethical terrain
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Herb Hildebrandt, Ph.D, Hl.D.
Aug 21, 2017
One of the tasks of gerontology schools, nursing facilities, senior living facilities in an increasing geriatric society must seek ways of linking high-tech inanimate objects with value rituals of seniors.
Finding compassion in LTC
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Herb Hildebrandt, Ph.D, Hl.D.
Jan 28, 2019
Since the dawn of man there has been a concern for others in stressed circumstances.