Today we'd like to introduce you to Meg LaPorte. Meg, we appreciate you taking the time to share your story with us today. Where does your story begin? (I live in the District of Columbia but that option was not offered in the above states to select

Join Art Against Ageism Co-founder Meg LaPorte as she tells the story of the nonprofit, which uses art and creativity to tackle ageism, and how the founders discovered the power of artistic activism.From giant posters covering the outside of a…

Poddavsnitt · Aging Matters · 2024-04-16 · 58 min

The Glowing Older podcast features experts in senior living and aging well. Hospitality and wellness and expert Nancy Griffin interviews a diverse cohort of entrepreneurs, corporate executives, experience providers, and agetech developers. It’s an

Meg LaPorte co-created Art Against Ageism as an alliance and media platform for the purpose of identifying, amplifying, and creating artistic endeavors that confront and tackle damaging stereotypes and misperceptions about age, older adults, and

The pandemic has given us a few reasons to take on ageism as an industry. To begin, the fact that nursing homes and assisted living communities were not prioritized for receipt of PPE and testing early in the pandemic points to an ageist attitude…

It’s been quite a while since I’ve posted here. Life, work, and a host of distracting experiences, some good and some not so good, have kept me from keeping up with this blog. More recently, COVID-19 has changed a lot for me—just as it has for most…

A few reasons why you should your staff to CNA Fest next year! By Meg LaPorte Over the past 18 years of working in this field, I have had the good fortune of interviewing, studying, and writing about a wide variety of aging services…

It’s been an open secret that the federal government has, for years, wanted to change long-term care’s payment system from one rewarding volume of services to one that pays for quality outcomes instead. The new Patient-Driven Payment Model (PDPM) may…

Doing more with less is a near constant refrain that long-term and post-acute care providers hear with regard to business operations, reimbursement and even clinical care. It takes on a new, ahem, dimension when it comes time to redesigning and…

Jaclyn Warshauer spent a good chunk of her career as a contract physical therapist, traveling to different skilled nursing facilities to fill in for therapists who were on maternity leave or sick leave. Boy, did she get an unexpected education. She…

Certified nurse assistants who practice frequent glove use may be the key to hampering the spread of dangerous pathogens, according to a study published in the September issue of the American Journal of Infection Control. Researchers found a…

What is the definition of sufficient staffing in a nursing home? A certified nurse assistant asked this question of Karen Tritz, director of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ Division of Nursing Homes, in September at the National…

The devastation of hurricanes Harvey and Irma hit the Gulf Coast and Florida harder than expected, but in their wake has been an unrivaled display kindness, fortitude and generosity from the communities and from around the world. As nearly anyone in…

I recently had the pleasure of seeing Tim Shriver deliver the commencement address at my daughter’s high school graduation. As you may know, Shriver is chair of the Special Olympics, which was founded by his mother, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, in…

Caring for medically complex patients is not a new phenomenon for skilled nursing providers, and neither is it for rehabilitation therapists, but the number of people undergoing therapy who have multiple chronic conditions—and therefore are much more…

Being ignored as an older person is a real thing, Margaret Harty has discovered. At 70, she says she had hoped that it wouldn’t actually happen. But it did. “The idea that as you get older you are marginalized,” she says, “you don’t think that it…