Foresight Radio

What's the latest thinking on brain health? Can dementia sometimes be prevented? How do nutrition, lifestyle and even lifelong learning factor in? Krystal Culler, DBH, founder of the Virtual Brain Health Center, shares insights you can use for yourself and with your residents! Learn about holistic brain health — and how to make your brain work up a sweat — with host Rachel Hill.

Joint Commission accreditation for senior living?! It's happening ... more and more, in fact — especially in assisted living and skilled nursing. It's quality control but also a marketing differentiator! Achieve Accreditation (a Foresight partner) helps communities prep. Learn the process, as Kristin Bratcher and Kerri Hackstock join host Rachel Hill on Foresight Radio.

This episode is brought to you by Further.

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How 'bout this: a YouTube series, an improv class, and showcases — all starring your residents! Evan Johnson fosters creativity and unexpectedness through the performing arts as program director at Elder Ashram (Oakland, California) and as founding director of Cosmic Elders Theatre Ensemble (San Francisco). Get artsy ideas and inspiration in this episode of Foresight Radio, with Rachel Hill.

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Where to find us:

Website: https://www.seniorlivingforesight.net
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/seniorforesight/
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There's a new staffing agency alternative in town ... and part of it may already be in your community. Accushield (a Foresight partner) and Flex have joined together to launch a mobile-first platform your staff will actually use. It's gig friendly and can get you automatic shift fulfillment. Get the hows and whys how and why in this week's Foresight Radio, hosted by Rachel Hill and featuring Charles Mann, Accushield founder and a former senior living operator, and Curtis Khan, BookJane founder and a former staffing agency founder, who have spent the last year developing a fully integrated mobile-first solution to address staffing shortages.

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Where to find us:

Website: https://www.seniorlivingforesight.net
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"Contemporary marketing is not selling at all." Dean Palombaro, Foundation Health's director of vibes (seriously), uses social media to elevate the perception of senior living, and to recruit staff. And it's working. On TikTok alone (with 4.5M likes), he's done things like convert 15 to 20 people in two months from agency to full-time staff. Host Rachel Hill finds out how.

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Where to find us:

Website: https://www.seniorlivingforesight.net
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/seniorforesight/
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Does it feel like your light bulbs are always burning out? It's time to start talking about wellness, it's time to start talking about how we stay energized as leaders. Rachel talks with Kathy Parry about her new book that talks about how leaders in senior living need to address their own wellness and their own "why."

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Website: https://www.seniorlivingforesight.net
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What's up with WhatsApp's safety? Why might older people be on Instagram and TikTok more than they used to be? ... How many old computers does everybody else have in their closet, and what should we do with them? (Asking for a friend.) Tune in as Rachel Hill talks tech with Burton Kelso, speaker and chief tech expert at Integral. It's the techiest Foresight Radio episode this year (so far)!

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Website: https://www.seniorlivingforesight.net
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/seniorforesight/
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There's a piano singalong, and then there's music therapy. In this episode, Tara Jenkins, of Harmony in Dementia, shares with Foresight's Rachel Hill what the difference is — and how customized music therapy can increase socialization, communication, self-expression, and emotional well-being. It can even improve staff/resident encounters!

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Website: https://www.seniorlivingforesight.net
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Christie Freeze helps families navigate caregiving and senior living — and drop the guilt. And she does it in one 90-minute consultation. Learn about her Roadmap for Eldercare. Plus: the simple, unique way she uses video for leads.

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A five-star hot dog? Yep. That's what Aaron Fish of Trestle Hospitality Concepts says we ought to be providing — five-star service and presentation with every meal, in every venue. But it's not about being fancy. It's about being thoughtful and personal. It's about the experience. Rachel and Aaron chat about menu hacking, being adaptable, and more.

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Where to find us:

Website: https://www.seniorlivingforesight.net
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Dr. DeLon Canterbury is a geriatric pharmacist with a mission to DE-prescribe seniors. He has worked to help seniors (and their families) advocate for themselves when it comes to medications, making sure that all the medications make sense for the individual. He is committed to giving seniors their lives back by REMOVING them from unnecessary medications and giving them a voice in their healthcare.

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Where to find us:

Website: https://www.seniorlivingforesight.net
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One evening, Akshita Iyer's mom left the stove on, igniting a fire. The house didn't burn down, but it was quite the scare. And it started Akshita on a path that would lead her to Shark Tank and an innovation in tech for senior living.

Hear her story and the solution that her company, Amity, offers for one of senior living's worst fears: A resident accidentally burning down the building.

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Rachel goes solo this week to give some perspective on the outside view of senior living. She'd never worked in senior living when she joined the SLF team but had a personal history with the industry.

She talks about what it was like coming in without a lot of industry experience and connections, how the industry is not what she thought it was, and what her hopes are for the future.

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Where to find us:

Website: https://www.seniorlivingforesight.net
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Dr. Nakeisha Rodgers trains medical professionals to help their older patients "age like royalty."

In this episode, Rachel talks with Dr. Rodgers — a geriatrician, educator, author, and speaker — about simple ways medical professionals suss out whether an ailment is purely physical or is stemming from depression or another mental illness.

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This week, on Foresight Radio: Sasha Dawn discovers the power of tech, gaming, and togetherness — and launches live, virtual gameshows for senior living residents across the country.

For 30 minutes we played. And for 30 minutes, all of us forgot where we were and connected. And at the end of the game, we all cried. ... In that moment, Rachel, I thought “This — this is what I'm here for. This is my magic.”

— Sasha Dawn, CEO and founder, Utopia Experiences

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In a room at Wheelock Terrace, a projector hangs from the ceiling. This unassuming box contains a high-tech, award-winning gaming system for people with dementia.

It's called Tovertafel — "magic table" in Dutch. It beams images onto the table or floor, and people interact with them in "purposeful play." The games are designed to use parts of the brain that don't get damaged by Alzheimer's.

Hear from Sjoerd Wennekes and Cindy Wiegand about how it's working in this community.

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Ever thought about opening an adult daycare? Kris Chana went from running a small assisted living community to launching ActivAge, a now-booming adult day care and in-home care franchise. As the CAREpreneur, he teaches and inspires fellow senior living entrepreneurs through his podcast, YouTube, and more. Here's his story.

Check out ActivAge at ADCPRO.COM

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The story: Kisco Senior Living has this pandemic thing down to a [cutting-edge but FDA-approved] science. They’ve got testing most people have never heard of, transparency many communities run in fear of, and “guidance, not dictates” executive directors dream of. Hear how they’re leading-by-example the industry forward.

The guest: Ed Ward, vice president of operations and care services, Kisco Senior Living.

Your host: Rachel Hill, Senior Living Foresight.

“We saw the strain on our front line. … We've really looked at, how do we address [the labor shortage]? … We've introduced a whole set of new HR benefits — associate benefits — that is pretty impressive. Things like sabbaticals for our executive directors and our community management team. After they've worked at Kisco for five years, they can take a month off, and it doesn't impact their vacation balance. They can go and explore and refresh and renew. … I've never been a part of an organization that does that.

— Ed Ward

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 https://www.instagram.com/seniorforesight/
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