Facilitating Transformation: The Tools and Processes Used in Long-term Care Culture Change

Learn the keys to facilitaing transformation with this webinar series - Facilitating Transformation: The Tools and Processes Used in Long-Term Care Culture Change. Culture Change focuses upon recreating long-term settings. It is the process of transforming a long-term care facility from operating under a medical model of care philosophy to operating under a holistic philosophy in a resident-centered care manner. This process of transformation involves a multitude of efforts aimed at changing the habits and assumptions of long-term care practice to support and maximize resident strengths (Cohen & Eisdorfer, 2001). Using a systemic approach employing content analysis of an extensive literature review and in-depth case studies, this presentation presents insights into the complex, organic and lengthy process of culture change as it occurs within long-term care and senior care communities. Through demonstrating numerous tools and actions undertaken by culture change organizations, this presentation introduces a system longitudinal process model of culture change and highlights the hidden role design and design processes may play in creating sustainable change.

Presented by: Meldrena Chapin, PhD, FMii


Learning Objectives

In this presentation, you will define:

1. Culture change in long-term care
   
2. Obstacles and benefits related to culture change
   
3. The need for congruence between organizational, social, and physical environments
   
4. Emerging conceptual frameworks that successfully guide culture change efforts and decision-making processes
5. Over 300 tools and actions that long-term care organizations used to create transformation
6. Placemaking (the in-depth collaborative process of creating new or re-creating physical environments) and its role in culture change

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