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Consumer Education Initiative Encourages Growth of Culture Change Movement
PHI
PHI
07/26/2012
In 1997, Lifespan — an
organization that provides aging-related assistance to elders in the
Rochester, New York area — convened a three-day meeting on the subject
of culture change in long-term care facilities. But not all of the 33
participants in the meeting used the term "culture change" to describe
that concept. Some, like Joanne Rader, called it
"individualized care"; others, such as Barry Barkan,
referred to it as the "regenerative community" model of care.
Nevertheless, each of those terms reflected the same set of values:
compassion, self-determination, a home-like atmosphere. "They were all
individual names, but when you peeled it back, you saw the same core
values and beliefs," Lifespan's Rose Marie Fagan said
recently. READ MORE
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