Education Sessions A: 10:15 – 11:45 a.m.
1 – A: Person Centered Care: An Answer to a Complex Healthcare Future!
The future assures us one thing as providers, more questions than answers, more complexity and more individuals requiring more care. This session will outline how an authentic culture of person centered care will provide organizations with a foundation to maintain the highest levels of quality and continue to manage a changing reimbursement system!
- Explain the moral and financial imperative to person centered care
- Describe how the voice of the individual can assist in managing individual healthcare decisions, improving outcomes and decreasing cost.
- Demonstrate how to become a voice in your community for improving the persons experience across the continuum of care.
Speaker: Jim Kinsey, Jim Kinsey is the Director of Member Experience at Planetree, a not-for-profit organization that provides education and information in a collaborative community of healthcare organizations, facilitating efforts to create patient and resident centered care in healing environments.
2-A. Building Board Engagement Part 1: Generative Governance
Join Dottie Schindlinger, Governance Technology Evangelist of BoardEffect, for part 1 of this two-part series designed to provide you with practical strategies to build board engagement. In part 1, Dottie will provide an overview of “Generative Governance,” the practice of boards serving in the role of “sense-maker,” in which they decide what to pay attention to, what their organizations should look like, and what the impact of the changing aging services landscape might be. “Generative governance” provides strategies to help deepen the quality of your board’s discussions, decision making, and impact.
In this session, Dottie will introduce generative governance in the context of your organization. Through a series of hands-on exercises and group discussions, you’ll learn more about what generative governance can mean for your organization and how generative concepts can be applied in your boardroom. You’ll leave this session with practical tools, useful tips, and helpful resources to help your board adopt a more generative approach to governance.
Speaker: Dottie Schindlinger, is BoardEffect’s Governance Technology Evangelist and promotes the concept of Governance for Good as a leading expert in the field.
3-A. Our Affordable Housing Crisis and Our Seniors
Washington DC’s affordable housing needs are growing. The City will have increased numbers of low-income renters and gentrification will grow. What will this mean for out elderly population and aging-in-place?
- Learn about recent projections of the affordable housing need for seniors
- Hear how DC plans to address the needs of seniors throughout the city
- Discuss how the supportive housing models for seniors can be integrated into a city-wide plan.
Speaker: Alayna Waldrum, Legislative Representative for LeadingAge. She joined AAHSA in 2004 and represents affordable housing issues, Older American’s Act and Medicaid before Congress.
Speaker: David Bowers is vice president and Mid-Atlantic market leader for Enterprise Community Partners, Inc.
Education Sessions B: 1:30 – 2:30 p.m.
1-B. Virtual Senior Center: Connecting Homebound Older Adults Through Technology
Learn about an innovative technology based socialization program designed for isolated home-bound older adults. Discuss the outcomes and lessons learned from staff, community partners and older adults. Learn about the LeadingAge CAST Technology Selection Tools and Resources.
Speakers: Scott Code, Aging Services Technologies Manager, Center for Aging Services Technologies (CAST), LeadingAge. Scott executes strategies and work plans to expand and lead CAST’s network of technology companies, providers and research institutions focused on technology solutions for an aging society, increases CAST’s exposure and coordinates state-level technology initiatives that aim to identify barriers and opportunities to facilitate the use of technology in an aging society, in partnership with LeadingAge’s State Partners.
2-B. Building Board Engagement Part 2: The Board Development Cycle
As a follow-up to the morning governance session, join Dottie Schindlinger, Governance Technology Evangelist of BoardEffect, for an exploration of board development strategies. With “generative governance” firmly in mind, this session is designed to help you take the next step in building the board of your dreams. We’ll review the key components of the board development cycle, including:
- Board member recruitment & retention
- Nominations, elections, and on-boarding
- Board education and kno wledge development
- Board self-assessment and handling difficult issues
You’ll walk away with a host of strategies, samples, and tools you can use to develop your board and build engagement among its members.
Speaker: Dottie Schindlinger, is BoardEffect’s Governance Technology Evangelist and promotes the concept of Governance for Good as a leading expert in the field.
3-B. Employment Law Update: Classification of Employees and Why It Matters
Learn about the nuances of an exempt and non-exempt employee while Jennifer Jackman and Tiffany Releford from Whiteford, Taylor & Preston cover the differences, qualifications, benefits, criteria and the overall importance of knowing classification status. They will also address the Department of Labor proposed changes to the laws effecting and narrowing exemption status and how this will affect employers providing recommendations as to how to prepare for such changes. The audience will also be informed about the risks of misclassification and how to avoid potential issues.
Speaker: Jennifer S. Jackman, Partner at Whiteford, Taylor & Preston and experienced member of the Business Litigation section in the D.C. office, represents large and small businesses, nonprofit associations, employers, community associations, and individuals in matters involving discrimination, business torts, products liability, professional liability, general negligence, and breach of contracts.
Tiffany M. Releford, Partner at Whiteford, Taylor & Preston, focuses her practice on labor and employment law and community associations in the District of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia.
Education Sessions C: 2:45 – 3:45 p.m.
1-C. Cognitive Health
As Baby Boomers grow older in large numbers, there is estimation that 10,000 people turn to age 65 every day since 2011. How to age well, physically and cognitively, has become a top priority in both public health arena and in individual’s personal life. This presentation focuses on cognitive health, the risk factors affecting cognitive aging, and steps to protect brain health and reduce the risk for cognitive decline.
Speakers: Jessica Shyu is Senior Director of Nutrition & Wellness for Morrison Community Living and Flik Lifestyles, part of Compass Group North America.
2 – C. Technology: How do we get the biggest return on our investment?
Discuss how your organization may be under-utilizing your technology and ways to improve your “bang-for-the-buck”. Best practices including standardization, training development, data integrity and analytics will be discussed as ways to increase overall application utilization that leads to improved operational efficiencies.
Speaker: Chip Burns is the President of The Asbury Group Integrated Technologies.
3 – C Finding your voice: Conveying your value for payment reform.
Payment reform is quickly gaining traction in long term care. Value Based Purchasing and the IMPACT Act are shifting the focus to demonstrating value using data. To be successful SNFs must understand how they perform on key measures such as readmissions and length of stay. How do SNFs access this information on themselves and their competition? How can these data assist in forming new partnerships? Come to this session to find out.
Speaker: Jill Sumner is the VP of Health Policy and Integrated Services for LeadingAge national in Washington DC. Jill has over 20 years of diverse healthcare experience having worked in both the provider and payer settings within the long term care field.