What's the latest thinking on brain health? Can dementia sometimes be prevented? How do nutrition, lifestyle and even lifelong learning factor in? Krystal Culler, DBH, founder of the Virtual Brain Health Center, shares insights you can use for yourself and with your residents! Learn about holistic brain health — and how to make your brain work up a sweat — with host Rachel Hill.

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"Purpose doesn't grow old. It doesn't expire," says Rose Joudi, PhD. She coaches senior living professionals who work with diverse populations. Get her insights into how to support all your residents, no matter their language, culture, or socioeconomic background — and how to encourage their pursuit of purpose.   Brought to you by Further's Pricing Assistant, helping you price your units to sell.

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There's a dementia village-inspired community in Kansas — designed especially for Kansans. Rather than a mini city, like Amsterdam's Hogeweyk, this one is a mini farmstead — complete with a few chickens, goats, and pigs!   Host Rachel Hill welcomes Mandy Shoemaker, co-founder of Prairie Elder Care and Connectivities to discuss innovative, simple ways to foster connections with — and between — residents living with dementia.   This episode is brought to you by Further. Their Pricing Assistant Dashboard Streamlines Your Competitive Market Analysis Process by Using Proactive Notifications to Identify Key Revenue Opportunities.

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Joint Commission accreditation for senior living?! It's happening ... more and more, in fact — especially in assisted living and skilled nursing. It's quality control but also a marketing differentiator! Achieve Accreditation (a Foresight partner) helps communities prep. Learn the process, as Kristin Bratcher and Kerri Hackstock join host Rachel Hill on Foresight Radio.

 

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How 'bout this: a YouTube series, an improv class, and showcases — all starring your residents! Evan Johnson fosters creativity and unexpectedness through the performing arts as program director at Elder Ashram (Oakland, California) and as founding director of Cosmic Elders Theatre Ensemble (San Francisco). Get artsy ideas and inspiration in this episode of Foresight Radio, with Rachel Hill.

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There's a new staffing agency alternative in town ... and part of it may already be in your community. Accushield (a Foresight partner) and Flex have joined together to launch a mobile-first platform your staff will actually use. It's gig friendly and can get you automatic shift fulfillment. Get the hows and whys how and why in this week's Foresight Radio, hosted by Rachel Hill and featuring Charles Mann, Accushield founder and a former senior living operator, and Curtis Khan, BookJane founder and a former staffing agency founder, who have spent the last year developing a fully integrated mobile-first solution to address staffing shortages.

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"Contemporary marketing is not selling at all." Dean Palombaro, Foundation Health's director of vibes (seriously), uses social media to elevate the perception of senior living, and to recruit staff. And it's working. On TikTok alone (with 4.5M likes), he's done things like convert 15 to 20 people in two months from agency to full-time staff. Host Rachel Hill finds out how.

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Does it feel like your light bulbs are always burning out? It's time to start talking about wellness, it's time to start talking about how we stay energized as leaders. Rachel talks with Kathy Parry about her new book that talks about how leaders in senior living need to address their own wellness and their own "why."

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What's up with WhatsApp's safety? Why might older people be on Instagram and TikTok more than they used to be? ... How many old computers does everybody else have in their closet, and what should we do with them? (Asking for a friend.) Tune in as Rachel Hill talks tech with Burton Kelso, speaker and chief tech expert at Integral. It's the techiest Foresight Radio episode this year (so far)!

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There's a piano singalong, and then there's music therapy. In this episode, Tara Jenkins, of Harmony in Dementia, shares with Foresight's Rachel Hill what the difference is — and how customized music therapy can increase socialization, communication, self-expression, and emotional well-being. It can even improve staff/resident encounters!

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