The experience of living in dementia care environments hasn’t evolved in 30 years – and we think it’s time for change. Conversations with disruptive operators, policy shapers, and designers examine how new thinking is shaping the places people living with dementia call home. Each episode, we’ll elaborate on a single pattern of innovation in dementia environments - some focusing on physical spaces, others highlighting care philosophies and procedures. Join Max Winters and Jennifer Sodo, senio ...
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The Green House Project and Living with Dementia
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Today’s bonus episode wraps up Season 1 of Shaping Dementia environments! We have a discussion with Susan Ryan about what she’s learned during the last year both from advising senior living organizations all around the world through the Green House Project, as well as talking to experts in the field of aging through her podcast Elevate Eldercare. S…
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How Will We View Today’s Dementia Care Thirty Years From Now?
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Today’s bonus episode continues the conversation Max had with Sean Kelly of Kendal. Similar to some of our other guests in this week’s episode, Max asks the following question of Sean: Given the progress, we’ve seen in caring for people living with dementia in the last thirty years, do you think there’s anything we’ll regret about how we care for p…
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Risk Attitude Pt 2: Saying ‘No’ to Surplus Safety
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We’ve chosen to bookend our first season of Shaping Dementia Environments with the topic of ‘Risk Attitude’, because it was so fundamental to every conversation we had this season. Something we alluded to in Part 1, and that appears several times in today’s episode, is the concept ‘surplus safety’ – which takes the approach of applying the most res…
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Cultural Specificity in the Design of Care Environments
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Today’s bonus episode continues the conversation Jen had with Jude Rabig of Rabig Consulting. She explains the lengths that they went to when designing and building the first Greenhouses to make sure that they mirrored the houses and homes the residents would be coming from in the specific context of Tupelo, Mississippi. She gives some strategies a…
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Hospitality vs. Home: Blurring the Front and Back of House
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In institutional environments, there is a clear distinction between spaces that are ‘front of house’ and spaces that are ‘back of house’. But as we move away from institutional approaches, this distinction starts to blur very quickly. Join Jennifer and Max as we talk to 3 great guests – Jude Rabig, Carrie Chiusano, and Damian Utton about their expe…
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Planning Ahead: Boomers & Market Expectations
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Today’s bonus episode continues the conversation Max had with Len Fishman from the Gerontology Institute at UMass Boston. In this clip, Len speaks to concepts of aging in community and the reality approaching the baby boomer generation in the United States. Len Fishman is a nationally recognized leader in the field of aging policy. He directs the G…
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How do we craft authentic environments for dementia when the population we’re serving is ever-changing and diverse? Join Jennifer and Max as we talk to 4 great guests – Len Fishman, Kim O’Brien, Amy McDonough, and Bill Browning – about the importance of both physical places and social relationships in the formation of authentic environments for old…
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Sun Hats and Lemonade – Older Adults Beating the Heat
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Today’s bonus episode continues the conversation Jennifer had with Jude Rabig of Rabig Consulting. In this clip, Jude speaks to a moving experience from her career in which three ladies with cognitive decline just did not want to come inside at their newly built green house in Tupelo, Mississippi…. In 90 degree weather and full sun. Jude Rabig is a…
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Ownership of Space: Investigating the In-Between
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How do all the in-between spaces in our lives – not quite public, not quite private – impact our feeling of ownership, pride & community in the spaces we live, work and play? Join Jennifer and Max as we talk to 5 great guests – Katie Swenson, Sean Kelly, Marvell Adams, Steve Bailey, and Jude Rabig – about the importance of these in-between spaces f…
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Today’s bonus episode continues the conversation Jen had with Barbra McLendon of Alzheimer’s Los Angeles. She speaks to some of the things the City of Los Angeles is doing to keep older adults in their existing towns and communities longer, while still addressing the issue of perpetually limited housing stock for people of all ages. Barbra McLendon…
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In this episode, we the parts and pieces of the public realm that have the ability to empower older adults living with dementia. Where are the opportunities to create a supportive physical environment with our existing streets, parks, and transportation? How can we bring those ideas into our dedicated care environments to provide an authentic exper…
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Psychoacoustics and Masking out Background Noise
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Today’s bonus episode continues the conversation Jennifer had with Bill Browning of Terrapin Bright Green. In this clip, Bill explains the difference between acoustics and psychoacoustics, and how we can use effective masking sounds to really help people focus on the most important auditory information they want to hear. Bill Browning is one of the…
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Nature: Prioritizing Multi-Sensory Engagement
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How do we prioritize multi-sensory engagement with nature in decisions both about the design of our built environment and the ongoing operation of senior communities? Join Jennifer and Max as we talk to 3 great guests – Bill Browning, Kirsten Jacobs, and Tammy Marshall – about their experiences in creating and managing environments for older adults…
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Today’s bonus episode continues the conversation Max had with Carrie Chiusano of Presbyterian SeniorCare. She speaks to an experience she had several years ago with a surveyor writing a citation for what she considered a very normal resident experience, and how she and others worked together to resolve the citation and encourage a sense of family i…
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Individual Choice: All the Small Things
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How do we build trust and meaningful relationships with older adults living with dementia while empowering them to make decisions in their daily lives? Join Jennifer and Max as we talk to 4 great guests – Carrie Chiusano, Kim O’Brien, Amy McDonough, and Len Fishman about their experiences educating leadership, frontline staff, family, and communiti…
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Today’s bonus episode continues the conversation Jennifer had with Eloy van Hal, one of the founders and implementers of the physical community and operational philosophy of Hogewey Dementia Village in the Netherlands. Their model is based on normalizing life for older people living with dementia, and this goes beyond the four walls of their commun…
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Multiple Scales: Finding the Missing Link
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In this episode, we explore the opportunities and challenges for older adults living with dementia to experience living beyond the scale of just one building. How do our neighborhoods, towns, and cities support people living with dementia in the community? How do we blur the boundaries between dedicated care environments and their broader context? …
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The Surveyor and the Caregiver Should Be Friends
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Today’s bonus episode continues the conversation Jennifer had with Jude Rabig about the obstacles an organization must find their way around in order to create a truly decentralized approach to decision-making in a care environment. Jude gives some very valuable suggestions and examples of how to engage surveyors and regulators in the process of cu…
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Decentralized Decisions: Jamming with Residents
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In this episode we discuss an important operational trend in care environments: decentralized decision-making and resources. The goal of this approach to put decision-making as close to the resident as possible. But how does one go about doing that? What are the related opportunities and barriers? Our first interview is with Jude Rabig, a nationall…
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Caregiving in Community: Policy Imperatives
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Today’s bonus episode continues the conversation Jennifer had with Barbra McLendon of Alzheimer’s Los Angeles about the realities of caregiving in the community and the burden that can be placed on families. Barbra highlights some key policy considerations to better support family and friend caregivers in these situations. Barbra McLendon is Direct…
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Culture & Lifestyle: Aging in Translation
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In this episode we tackle the question of how culture and lifestyle influences operations, policy creation, and design for dementia environments. Barbra McLendon, Eloy van Hal, and Katie Swenson share a very wide breadth of experiences on this topic, and our discussions range from highly complex public policy challenges to defining intrinsic notion…
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Honesty in Aging: Meeting People Where They Are
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Listen in to a preview of conversations to come with Sean Kelly and Marvell Adams from Kendal Corporation. Hear how their communities work to meet people where they are in their aging process. Sean Kelly joined Kendal in 2008 and took on his current role in 2016. Prior to 2016, while at Kendal, Sean was responsible for fostering a culture of contin…
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Normalcy: Creating Reciprocal Communities
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Why is emphasizing normalcy part of the dialogue in discussing environments for older adults living with dementia – aren’t all homes meant to be normal? Join Max and Jennifer as they talk to three guests, Kirsten Jacobs, Tammy Marshall, and Damian Utton, about how our society’s views and the spaces we build can support the complex, fulfilled lives …
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Beyond a Diagnosis: Integrated Living with Dementia
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We had such a great conversation with Kim O’Brien and Amy McDonough of United Active Living in Calgary, Alberta, that we wanted to share this bonus clip with you about their successes and challenges in implementing an integrated living approach at their communities. Kim serves as president and CEO at United Active Living. Their communities provide …
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Risk Attitude: Removing the Bubble Wrap
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In part 1 of a 2-part series on risk attitude in dementia environments, Max and Jennifer talk to 4 great guests – Kim O’Brien, Amy McDonough, Len Fishman, and Bill Browning – about this difficult but timely topic for senior housing and care. We all experience certain amounts of risk in our daily lives, and allowing for that in dementia environments…
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The experience of living in dementia care environments hasn’t evolved in 30 years – and we think it’s time for change. Conversations with disruptive operators, policy shapers, and designers examine how new thinking is shaping the places people living with dementia call home. Each episode, we’ll elaborate on a single pattern of innovation in dementi…
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