Institute Team to Present Three Sessions at American Society on Aging Conference
in March
Sessions will Explore Psychosocial Guidelines for Community Life, Leadership
for Direct Care Workers and Practical Nursing Education within a Culture Change
Context
WASHINGTON, DC — The Institute for Caregiver Education team
is pleased to announce that three of the organization’s submissions
for the ASA/NCOA Annual Conference were accepted and will be presented in
March. The American Society on Aging (ASA) and the National Council
on Aging (NCOA) collaborate to host one of the largest annual conferences
for aging, eldercare and education professionals in the country. This year’s
conference will be held in Washington, DC on March 26-30 at the Marriott
Wardman Park Hotel and the Omni Shoreham Hotel. More than 3,500 aging professionals
are expected to attend.
Institute for Caregiver Education Senior Consultant and Director of
Development Jim Kinsey, AAS will be presenting “Enhancing Lives and
Enhancing Compliance: Culture Change and the Psychosocial Guidelines.” This
session was created by Mr. Kinsey as a response to the new guidelines from
the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services that focus on Activities programming
regulation. One of the Institute’s recent focuses has been transforming
Activities programming to a “Community Life” model, which embraces
Culture Change and expands activities from the responsibility of one staff
member to the entire team. In this 90-minute session, attendees will explore
how Community Life programs can enhance compliance with regulation and further
avoid deficiencies with the new psychosocial guidelines.
Senior Consultant and Director of Development Teresa McCann will present “Organizational
and Leadership Development.” In this session participants
will explore how to expand the role of the direct care worker into a role
of leadership and mentoring. Participants will also explore how to develop
interdisciplinary teams, create team standards that build a foundation of
success, and the policies and procedures needed to support an expanded role
into a Quality of Life Leader.
Associate Consultant and Educator Myrna Eshleman, RN, MScN, will be
presenting “Education for Developing Practical Nurses for Long-Term
Care.” This session will explore how to integrate geriatric-focused,
relationship-based care into a curriculum of practical nursing. Participants
will identify and discuss the professional crisis that this curriculum seeks
to respond to as well as examples of lesson plans, outcome measures, and
implementation guidelines. In addition, Ms. Eshleman will identify how to
integrate gerontology, psychosocial elder needs and issues of aging into
a practical nursing curriculum.
For more information about the joint ASA/CCOA Conference, please visit
www.asaging.org.
The Institute for Caregiver Education is a nationally-recognized leader
in Culture Change education. For more than 15 years the organization
has provided quality caregiver education to nursing homes from California
to Maine. Over the last seven years the IfCE team has educated hundreds of
long-term care professionals on a myriad of Culture Change topics at such
national conferences as ASA, NADONA, AAHSA, AHCA, ACHCA, The Pioneer Network,
the VA Summit and numerous state associations. The Institute for Caregiver
Education is currently a leading Culture Change educator for a number of
state QIO organizations as they work with the 8th Scope of Work and CMS.
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