Thank you to Daniella Greenwood, Mary Beth Wighton and Dr. Al Power
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Wedensday, September 27th, 2017
Schlegel Villages Facebook Page (facebook.com/schlegelvillages)
Guests
Daniella Greenwood
National Strategy and Innovation Manager for Arcare Aged Care, Australia
Daniella is National Strategy and Innovation Manager for Arcare. Arcare has thirty-three aged care residences in Victoria, Queensland, New South Wales. Since 1997, Arcare offers a mix of permanent care (LTC), respite care and sensitive (dementia) care. In 2005, Arcare broadened their services to include home care. This home care division includes private home care services, government funded home care packages and disability services.
Daniella’s key areas of responsibility include stakeholder engagement in the development and implementation of Arcare’s Relational Approach and Dedicated Assignment Model. Daniella is a published author and has presented to federal Parliamentarians, and as a keynote at the Alzheimer’s Disease International conference in 2015, the Australian Aged Care Quality Agency Better Practice seminars around Australia in 2015 and 2017, and the Walk With Me and Culture Change Exchange conferences Canada in 2016-2017.
Mary Beth Wighton
Board Member, Ontario Dementia Advocacy Group (ODAG)
Mary Beth is a founding member of ODAG after she was diagnosed in 2012 with probable frontotemporal dementia at the age of 45. She is an advocate for people living with dementia from local to the international level. She is considered a pioneer in promoting the rights of people with dementia, her work crosses many sectors including membership in the Canadian Dementia Working Group - a Task Force consortium of non-governmental disability organizations in Canada; appearing as a Witness for the Canadian Senate for its study on the issue of dementia in Canada; the Ontario Dementia Strategy Advisory group; ONDRI Patient Community Advisory Committee; Dementia Capacity Planning Clinical Advisory Committee, and others important groups.
Host
Dr. Allen Power
Schlegel Chair in Aging and Dementia Innovation, Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Rochester, and Certified Eden Alternative Educator
Dr. Allen Power is an internist, geriatrician, and the newly appointed Schlegel Chair in Aging and Dementia Innovation at the Schlegel-University of Waterloo Research Institute for Aging. He is also clinical associate professor of medicine at the University of Rochester, NY, and an international educator on transformational models of care for older adults, particularly those living with changing cognitive abilities.
Dr. Power’s book, Dementia beyond Drugs: Changing the Culture of Care was named a 2010 Book of the Year by the American Journal of Nursing. He served on the technical advisory panel for the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services for their national antipsychotic reduction initiative. Dr. Power was interviewed for the film Alive Inside, winner of the Audience Award for Best U.S. Documentary at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival. He also was a member the Scientific Program Committee and a Keynote speaker for Alzheimer’s Disease International 2015 in Perth, Western Australia.
Dr. Power was named one of “Five Leaders of Tomorrow” by Long-Term Living Magazine in May 2013. His second book, Dementia Beyond Disease: Enhancing Well-Being was released by Health Professions Press in June 2014 and the second edition of Dementia Beyond Drugs was released in October 2016.
Dr. Power also has a 20-year history working in culture change in elder care. He is an Eden Alternative educator, a member of the Eden Alternative board of directors, and also helped develop St. John’s Penfield Green House homes—the only community-integrated Green House homes in the US.
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