Dementia and Farm Life: An interview with Gerke de Boer and Annie Herder
This interview is part of a greater research effort into dementia and best practices in elder care in Northern Europe. Sofia Widen traveled to the north of The Netherlands to study the innovative thinking of Cornelia Hoeve, a farm that is now …
Redefining Dementia: An interview with the Dementia Action Alliance
Dementia touches not only the elderly but also their families and everyone around them. There is much that is not understood about this condition. As a result, those who live with dementia and their caregivers often experience rejection and isolation. The Dementia …
Hospital at Home: An interview with Bruce Leff
When older people become acutely ill, the hospital is not always the best place for them to stay. Elders are prone to bacterial and virus infections that come from extended hospital stays. Complications after hospitalization such as functional decline, delirium, or acute …
Disrupting Emergency Medicine: An interview with DispatchHealth
Two of the main areas where health system spending is very high are hospital admissions and readmissions and emergency department visits and bounce backs. Readmissions occur when a patient is discharged from the hospital but returns to the hospital for the same …
Living with Dementia: An interview with Brian LeBlanc
Dementia affects not only those living with this health condition but their families, friends, and everyone around them. In this interview, Brian LeBlanc, a national public speaker and advocate for dementia awareness and education, who himself suffers from Alzheimer’s disease, discusses his …
Partners in Care: An interview with June Simmons
ACCESS Health Program Manager Jean Galiana interviewed the founder of Partners in Care, June Simmons, as part of a study on elder and long term care. Simmons described the focus of the Partners in Care program and the reasons for its success. …
Aabenraa Municipality: Interview with Jakob Kyndal
As part of a series of case studies on excellence in dementia care, ACCESS Health visited Denmark to study Danish companies and organizations. This study is part of a larger research effort on dementia care in Northern Europe. A growing proportion of …
Rise Care Home: An Interview with Kirsten Springborg and Mette Pawlik Olesen
ACCESS Health Program Manager Sofia Widén conducts this interview with Kirsten Springborg and Mette Pawlik Olesen about Rise Care Home (Rise Parken), a long term care home in Aabenraa, Denmark. Eighty percent of the residents at Rise Care Home live with some …
IntelligentLIFE: Elder Care Technology
As part of a larger research effort on dementia care in Northern Europe, this interview describes the development of a new software and planning tool called IntelligentLIFE During a visit to Denmark, Sofia Widén a Program Manager at ACCESS Health International spoke …
Long Term Care Insurance in the United States
“Long term care insurance requires a long term financial commitment. Many people think that insurance companies take advantage of payers with regular increases in prices. In this interview, the president of Thau Incorporated, Claude Thau, explains how long term care insurance works …
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