Assisted Living

This webinar provides an in-depth analysis of state and federal fair housing requirements, illustrating their impact on every aspect of your operation.

Elopement can be deadly, underscoring the need for prediction, prevention, and protection to ensure a safe environment for all tenants.

View this webinar to explore the nuances of reasonable accommodation requests and the requirements outlined in various federal acts.

In this webinar, evidence-based behavior management and intervention strategies related to pain management, communication, emotional/cognitive state, sensation, agitation, and wandering are examined to help providers reduce unwanted behaviors without relying on medications.

In this session, participants will learn from a Montessori specialist about the Montessori principles of independence according to one’s ability, and the benefits of the prepared environment.

Caregivers and nursing home staff play a pivotal role in minimizing social isolation, loneliness, depression, and behaviors in persons with dementia.  Isolation does not need to equal decline!  This session will review practical and cost-effective strategies care providers can implement to impact these areas. 

In this session, participants will learn how sensory stimulation impacts the person living with dementia.  Participants will learn how to set up a room or a space in their community using best practice design principles.  This session will offer a “design on a dime” approach to a sensory room and demonstrate to providers how to set up a room or space of their own so they can further impact the quality of life of persons with dementia without relying on pharmacology.

Using Teepa Snow’s Positive Approach to Care (PAC) Information, Retha and Lindsey will work through the basics of how the left and right side of the brain functions in a person who is living with dementia. 

This presentation will describe etiologies that may be mistaken for pressure damage, including chronic tissue injury (CTU), Kennedy Terminal Ulcer (KTU)/skin failure, moisture associated skin damage (MASD), deep tissue pressure injury (DTPI), and others.

This webinar will explore hoarding in senior living by first defining hoarding and identifying the types of hoarding behaviors.

In this webinar, participants will gain insight into bullying within adult living communities and day centers.

In this webinar, the participants will begin by completing a brief, self-scored inventory to identify their personality traits.  This insight will help them understand themselves better and improve their interactions with others, regardless of personality similarities or differences. 

This session will provide participants with an in-depth overview of falls in senior living environments, exploring the various and diverse risk factors and situations that contribute to them—many of which are preventable.

Suicide, ideation, and self-harm among older adults are highly prevalent yet minimally researched and uncomfortably discussed topics in the United States. Older adults often exhibit many primary risk factors, including mental illness (especially depression and grief/loss), medical illness, impaired coping skills, social disconnectedness, and functional impairment.