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Elevate Eldercare

May 31, 2023

In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the concept of aging in place – already the overwhelming preference for most people – received more media and political attention than ever before.

But Ryan Frederick believes that the phrase, while well-meaning, is too passive and restrictive, implying that aging is something...


May 24, 2023

The traditional nursing home took its design and operational cues from hospitals – a setting defined by its focus on physical health over all other considerations.

Since the late 1970s, Planetree International has worked to infuse humanity back into hospitals and, increasingly, health care settings of all kinds. In...


May 17, 2023

Last year, the groundbreaking NASEM report on nursing home quality laid out a host of recommendations for improving the broken long-term care system in the U.S. While none of those suggestions is necessarily more important than the others, the topic of improving the LTC workforce is probably the one garnering the most...


May 10, 2023

Eldercare – and U.S. health care writ large – too often is a cold, impersonal experience for the people both giving and receiving care, as ever-increasing demands for efficiency and profit turn an intimate experience into boxes to check and line items on balance sheets.

Dr. Stephen Trzeciak, chief of medicine at...


May 3, 2023

When the Australia-based ACH Group agreed to become the first provider outside of the United States to fully implement the Green House model, CEO Frank Weits was taking the next step in his organization’s 70-year tradition of person-directed care – and building on his own experiences in eldercare, which began as...