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Featured Speaker
Dr. Bill Thomas
Dr. Bill Thomas is an award-winning writer and an international expert on Elderhood and geriatric medicine. He is likely best-known as the founder of The Eden Alternative and The Green House Project.
The Eden Alternative put forward a critique of the status quo in long-term care and offered a creative way to "change the culture" of long term care environments by bringing growth potential into the lives of Elders.
Dr. Thomas saw that America's nursing home buildings were "aging faster than the people living inside them." This led him to imagine a new approach to long-term care that became known as The Green House. Concurrently, what Dr. Thomas envisioned through The Eden Alternative is now reaching beyond the walls of the nursing home and inspiring change in home and community-based care as well. In 2008, Dr Thomas led a team of experts from the Erickson School of Aging Studies at UMBC to create the nation's first elder-friendly emergency department at Holy Cross Hospital in Silver Spring, Maryland. This separate ER was scientifically designed to reduce anxiety, confusion, and the risk of falling. Dr. Thomas received the 12th Annual Heinz Award for the Human Condition in 2006 for his contributions to long term care: "With contagious enthusiasm and an unwavering vision, Dr. William Thomas has helped bring dignity, joy and love into an environment that has been too long lacking in these essential human qualities. As America continues to age, his transformation of our long-term care system provides a timely prescription for the care of generations to come. |
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"Culture change" is the common name for a global initiative focused on transforming care, as we know it, for Elders and individuals living with disabilities. It advocates for a shift from institutional models of care to person-directed values and practices that put the person first. Core person-directed values include choice, dignity, respect, self-determination, and purposeful living.
True culture change leaves no one behind. Successful transformation to a person-directed care approach relies on the involvement of everyone in all long-term care environments. Across the full continuum of care, The Eden Alternative® promotes these values using a set of principles and strategies to transform sterile care environments into warm, loving homes where Elders and people living with cognitive disabilities (e.g., brain injury, developmental and intellectual disabilities, and mental illness) can thrive and grow.
Join Dr. Bill Thomas, Co-Founder of The Eden Alternative, along with local culture change leaders to learn how you can be an integral part of this powerful movement.
Taking the culture change journey together means identifying the unique needs of different stakeholders and establishing a shared commitment to person-directed care. Through inspiration, personal stories, and practical tools, learn how we can build a life worth living for people residing in long-term care environments, their care partners, and the larger community.
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Conference Location and date... March 12, 2012
The Brookwood Community
1752 FM 1489 Brookshire, TX 77423
Get Directions: Click here for Google Map or call (281)375-2100 Click here for agenda |
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Who Should Attend?
- Administrators/Executive Directors
- Employee Care Partners in Long-Term Care Communities for People Living with Disabilities
- Home Health and Hospice Personnel
- Case Managers
- Nursing Managers in Long-Term Care Communities
- Adult Recreation & Social Services Directors
- Rehabilitation Therapists
- Community Organizations Focused on Aging and Disabilities
- Care Partners for People Living at Home
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Special Offer...
Standard Registration: $99.00 Early Bird Registration, Before 2/29/12: $89.00
Lunch is included at theThe Café at Brookwood
The Cafe at Brookwood offers spectacular garden views, complimented with exceptional cuisine created by our award winning Chef Laura McGuire and her team. Chef Laura McGuire is an accredited chef that acquired her culinary education for The Culinary Institute of America at Hyde Parke New York. |
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