Jun 30, 2021
For Mindy Cheek, senior vice president at Greystone, diversity isn’t a corporate policy or a buzzword; it’s an integral part of daily life, and for those who have been victims of discrimination and hate, treating the need for diversity and inclusion as anything less misses the wider point about representation and...
Jun 25, 2021
Have you ever thought of segregation as a form of restraint for an elder living with dementia? In this episode of “Let Me Say This About That” we explore that view of memory care and many other interesting perspectives on aging shared by Pat Sprigg.
Sprigg is the president and CEO of Carol Woods, a retirement...
Jun 23, 2021
Pat Sprigg set off on her journey to change eldercare after observing firsthand the horrors of the “best practices” – powerful antipsychotic drugs and physical restraints – that were commonplace in the dementia treatment programs of the 1970s and 1980s.
But even as many facilities moved away from such dangerous...
Jun 18, 2021
Jennie Chin Hansen’s career in aging services has taken her from a community operation in San Francisco’s Chinatown to the presidency of AARP, all underpinned by a desire to view aging through a more holistic lens than the often one-size-fits-all institutional model.
Hansen’s work as CEO of On Lok, an...
Jun 16, 2021
In the mid-1980s, Jennie Chin Hansen decided to move her ailing parents from Boston to her home in San Francisco so that they could live out their remaining years surrounded by family – and not in an institutional nursing home.
Hansen’s care journey for her father, who had suffered several strokes, was a...