Leading Age New Jersey & Delaware

Alternatives in Long-Term Care: PACE
2021-03-09 10:00 - 11:00 (America/New_York)
Please join LANJDE at this webinar hosted by our colleagues at Parker Health Group and NJAAW. The webinar features LANJDE member Lisa Zavorski of Life St Francis and will be moderated by LANJDE Vice President, Meagan Glaser!
Parker Health Group, Inc. and NJAAW present
Programs and Innovations Series webinars
First webinar is “Alternatives in Long-Term Care–PACE” on March 9
(Trenton, NJ) March 3, 2021 — Parker Health Group. Inc., a nonprofit, NJ-based aging services organization with over 111 years of experience, and NJ Advocates for Aging Well (NJAAW, formerly NJ Foundation for Aging), will present “Alternatives in Long-Term Care-PACE,” the first webinar in their free concurrent Programs and Innovations Series, on March 9, from 10 a.m. to noon ET. To register, visit https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_0aI539BeQIKIa3GJu5XI1g
The Programs of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) provides comprehensive medical and social services to certain frail, community-dwelling elderly individuals, most of whom are dually eligible for Medicare and Medicaid benefits.
As described by the NJ Department of Human Services, Division of Aging Services’ website, PACE is an innovative program that provides individuals who are 55 and older, and deemed “frail,” with comprehensive medical and social services. These services are coordinated and provided by an interdisciplinary team of professionals in a community-based center and in their homes. PACE helps participants delay or avoid long-term nursing home care.
During the webinar, PACE provider Lisa Zavorski, Executive Director of LIFE St. Francis, a PACE in Bordentown, will present an overview of the PACE model, describe how it differentiates from other managed care models and explain why this program should be expanded throughout New Jersey. Moderating will be Meagan Glaser, Vice President of LeadingAge New Jersey & Delaware, in Hamilton.
Zavorski was appointed Executive Director of LIFE St. Francis in Bordentown, a subsidiary of St. Francis Medical Center and a member of Trinity Health, in 2017. She worked at St. Francis Medical Center for 33 years and transitioned to the hospital’s PACE program in 2012. During her tenure with LIFE St. Francis, Zavorski has held various leadership roles, including Director of Quality and Compliance as well as Center Director. She is the recipient of the 2015 National Pace Association (NPA) Judy Baskins Volunteer Leadership Award.
Prior to joining LeadingAge New Jersey & Delaware, Glaser was the New Jersey State Deputy Director for the Drug Policy Alliance. There, she led diverse coalitions in support of successful advocacy campaigns resulting in the enactment of landmark legislation. Glaser also served as the Director of Legislative Services for a New Jersey state assemblyman and completed an internship at the Princeton Public Affairs Group, the largest government affairs firm in New Jersey. Glaser has more than a decade of policy advocacy, government relations, event planning, project management and communications experience in the nonprofit sector.
The next webinar in the Programs and Innovations Series, taking place in April, will cover “Health and Housing: Senior Living Program.” The next in the Technology in Aging Services Series of webinars will address “What’s Happening Now and What Does the Future Hold.” Details will be available at a later date.
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About Parker Health Group, Inc.
Parker Health Group, Inc. is a nonprofit, New Jersey-based aging services organization with over 111 years’ experience that is committed to empowering older Americans. Since 1907, Parker has been challenging, changing and expanding the idea of what it means to grow older in America and how all of us can make aging part of life
About NJAAW
NJ Advocates for Aging Well (NJAAW, njaaw.org), formerly NJ Foundation for Aging, has been at the forefront of revolutionizing the aging experience since 1998. It is the only statewide nonprofit focused solely on providing leadership in public policy and education to enable older adults to live with independence and dignity in their communities. NJAAW’s social action issues include senior housing and hunger, elder economic security, older workers and transportation. The award-winning Aging Insights, a monthly topical TV program produced by NJAAW, connects caregivers, seniors and their families to community-based services and resources. The show is available on NJAAW’s YouTube channel at youtube.com/c/njadvocatesforagingwell, at njaaw.org and more than 70 public-access stations across NJ (check local listings for channels and times). NJAAW also presents educational forums and an Annual Conference (June 3–4, 2021) offering development opportunities and best practices for professionals entrusted with caring for seniors.

Awards Program - A Celebration of Excellence
2021-02-24 10:30 - 11:00
SHAPING THE FUTURE …
THROUGH LEADERSHIP, INNOVATION, AND SERVICE
This event is free but registration is required. Please register here to secure your spot.
Through outstanding leadership, personal commitment, and innovation in services and program delivery, LeadingAge New Jersey & Delaware members are leading the way in providing outstanding care and services to New Jersey & Delaware’s seniors. The LeadingAge New Jersey & Delaware Awards Program – A Celebration of Excellence is a great opportunity to recognize the people in our communities who are making a difference in the lives of residents, colleagues, and their local community.
This year’s ceremony will be unlike any other – we will join together virtually on February 24th from 10:30 – 11:00 am EST, and recognize the ways in which ALL OF YOU have gone above and beyond to serve seniors across New Jersey & Delaware. This is your opportunity to share your accomplishments and those of your staff and team with LeadingAge New Jersey & Delaware colleagues, business partners, and industry leaders.
Also, we encourage you to please consider organizing COVID safe social distance Awards Watch parties in your community so staff may enjoy the ceremony together.
This event is free but registration is required. Please register here to secure your spot.
If you have any questions please email our membership & events associate, Emilie Beck at ebeck@leadingagenjde.org or call our office at 609-452-1161 and press option 1.
CATEGORIES:
Excellence in Affordable Senior Housing
Excellence in Care (Providing Direct Care, Support Services or Supportive Housing )
Excellence in Community Service
Excellence in Innovation
Excellence in Leadership
Excellence in Professional Advancement
Our Awards Program Is Sponsored By:

LeadingAge NJ & DE Affordable Senior Housing Manager & Service Coordinator Round Table Meeting
2021-02-23 10:30 - 12:30
LeadingAge NJ & DE Affordable Senior Housing Manager & Service Coordinator Round Table Meeting
We look forward to joining together via zoom on 2/23/21 – 10:30 am – 12:30 pm EST.
Topics TBD! As always, please send subjects you’d like to discuss ahead of time to our Housing Consultant Dao (Dao@compassgroup.net) and our Membership & Events Associate Emilie (ebeck@leadingagenjde.org).
Contact Emilie for access info.

Housing Happenings - Grieving
2021-02-17 09:00 - 10:00
LeadingAge New Jersey & Delaware is excited to partner with LeadingAge Maryland & LeadingAge Ohio on these monthly calls for Affordable Housing professionals – the 3rd Wednesday of every month at 9 am ET.
February 17th:
Topic – Grief
Maren Simon, LSW, MSW
Bereavement Counselor, Hospice of Northwest Ohio
msimon@hospicenwo.org

Contact our membership & events associate, Emilie Beck for access information (ebeck@leadingagenjde.org).

Here are the topics we will cover this year:
January – COVID-19 Vaccine
February – Grieving
March – No meeting due to the Housing Conference that New York will be hosting
April – Food and Security
May 19 –Gardening and Engagement
June – Disaster Preparedness
July – Technology
August – Housing Plus Services
September – Fair Housing
October – Dementia Care
November – Communication
December – Physical Inspections

LeadingAge Housing Advisory Group Call
2021-01-25 08:00 - 17:00
LeadingAge Housing Advisory Group Call
LeadingAge Affordable Housing members across the country are invited to a weekly call to discuss current hot topics, network with mission driven colleagues, and ask questions to LeadingAge national staff policy experts. For call in information, contact ebeck@leadingagenjde.org.

January 25th – Health Department collaborations with Senior Housing providers (with Baltimore City Health Department)

Getting the Most From Your Infection Prevention Program
2021-01-21 14:00 - 16:00, 2021-01-20 14:00 - 16:00, 2020-12-16 14:00 - 16:00, 2020-11-18 14:00 - 16:00
Getting the Most From Your Infection Prevention Program
This three-webinar series taught by the LW Consulting, Inc. team of clinicians and administrators with long term care experience will address how to successfully integrate an infection preventionist into a nursing home’s or assisted living community’s operations and quality improvement program.
Session 1: Nov. 18, 2-4 p.m. will focus on the underlying federal and state requirements for infection prevention and control.
Session 2: Dec. 16, 2-4 p.m. will address the roles and responsibilities of the infection preventionist vis-à-vis the facility’s team, with particular emphasis on policies, procedures, hand and respiratory hygiene, surveillance, QI and respiratory protection programs.
Session 3:
Jan. 20, 2-4 p.m. for nursing homes will focus on QAPI, the team members’ commitment and strategies for success and;
Jan. 21 2-4 p.m. for assisted living communities will focus on the impact on the roles of team members and how to get results.
Register here: http://www.njha.com/education/brochure/?id=3042

LeadingAge Housing Advisory Group Call
2021-01-11 08:00 - 17:00
LeadingAge Housing Advisory Group Call
LeadingAge Affordable Housing members across the country are invited to a weekly call to discuss current hot topics, network with mission driven colleagues, and ask questions to LeadingAge national staff policy experts. For call in information, contact ebeck@leadingagenjde.org.

January 11th – Contact Tracing at senior housing communities (with experts from Johns Hopkins University)

LeadingAge Housing Advisory Group Call
2021-01-04 12:30 - 13:30
LeadingAge Affordable Housing members across the country are invited to a weekly call to discuss current hot topics, network with mission driven colleagues, and ask questions to LeadingAge national staff policy experts. For call in information, contact ebeck@leadingagenjde.org.

January 4th – General updates and discussion (vaccine distribution, news from HUD and the Hill, etc)

#Tuesday StandUp - Dying Well: Strategies for Normalizing the Conversation About Death
2020-12-22 10:00 - 10:15
#TuesdayStandUp is a 15 minute, clinically focused educational teleconference which explores a variety of clinical, regulatory, and operational issues and best practices associated with providing care, supports, and services for older adults. Each call will offer listeners actionable advice designed for hands-on clinical team members, healthcare leaders and clinicians.
Speaker: Eric Bush, MD
Topic: Dying Well: Strategies for Normalizing the Conversation About Death

Town Hall & Lessons of Leadership
2020-12-16 11:30 - 13:00
Make your voice heard!
This event is free but registration is required. Please register here to secure your spot.
A vital part of LeadingAge national’s public policy formulation process is the Town Hall Conversation they hold with state partner associations like ours. At Town Hall events, LeadingAge national staff have the opportunity to hear directly from you, the members. Results of the town hall conversations are shared within LeadingAge and are used to set national public policy priorities to help better represent your interests and the interests of older adults in Washington, D.C.
At LANJDE’s 2020 Town Hall, we will hear from LeadingAge national’s policy experts on topics such as nursing homes, senior affordable housing, workforce, mental health & trauma and how the COVID-19 pandemic might shape our federal advocacy goals and efforts in the coming year.
This Town Hall Conversation is your opportunity to offer feedback to LeadingAge regarding ways federal public policy is affecting you, your staff and community, and the elders you serve, with a focus on how policy could be improved. Please join us for this important and exciting event!
To open the Town Hall event, we’re excited to be joined by LeadingAge Board Chair, Carol Silver Elliott, who will start us out with a conversation on Lessons of Leadership. Carol is one of the most dynamic leaders in aging services and we’re fortunate enough to have her on the LANJDE Board and working right here in our home state of New Jersey.
This segment of the Town Hall event will allow you time to reflect going into the holiday season on what the COVID pandemic has revealed about yourself, your team and leadership style. We promise you’ll be feeling proud of your accomplishments, curious about further opportunities for growth and fortified for the future.
Wednesday, December 16, 2020 11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. via zoom.
Guest Speaker:
Carol Silver Elliott
Carol Silver Elliott is the President and CEO of the Jewish Home Family, located in northern New Jersey. Serving older adults for more than a century, the Jewish Home continuum of services includes the Jewish Home at Rockleigh, offering both long term care and short term rehabilitation; Jewish Home Assisted Living; Jewish Home at Home, providing home health care and adult medical day services; Jewish Home Foundation. Prior to joining the Jewish Home Family in 2014, Silver Elliott served as the President and CEO of Cedar Village Retirement Community in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Silver Elliott began her career in acute care, serving strategic roles in marketing, planning and public relations. Entering the world of older adult services in 2007, she immediately became involved on both a State and national level. She serves on the board of the Association of Jewish Aging Services and served as chair of the board from 2013-2015. She was a board member of LeadingAge Ohio and joined the board of LeadingAge New Jersey in 2015. In 2012 Silver Elliott joined the board of LeadingAge, the organization that represents nonprofit senior care providers around the country, and currently serves as chair.
Passionate about elder abuse prevention, Silver Elliott was instrumental in founding the Shalom Center at Cedar Village in 2010 and in developing SeniorHaven at the Jewish Home in 2015. She is the recipient of numerous State and national awards for innovation and leadership and has spoken at conferences both around the country and internationally. Her biweekly blogs in The Times of Israel have been published continuously since 2015.
Please register here to secure your spot.
This program is sponsored by

Soundmind enables families and caregivers to securely leverage voice assistants like Alexa through their secure online platform for smarter care. Now, simply by speaking, older adults have instant access to video calling, concierge services, engaging content, and vital information for an improved quality of life. Devices are pre-configured, shipped, and ready to plug & play. Soundmind helped reduced depression scores by 44%.

Left: Soundmind caregiver and family portal. Right: Soundmind secured device designed for senior living provides voice-activated video calling, messaging, photo sharing, activities, and more.

Housing Happenings: Finding Strength for the Day to Day
2020-12-16 09:00 - 09:30
LeadingAge NJ&DE are pleased to partner with LeadingAge Maryland and LeadingAge DC to offer this educational teleconference series designed specifically for affordable housing professionals!
Guest Speaker: Anne Johnson, Senior Organizational Development Consultant Alber Enterprise Center, the Ohio State University

Housing Roundtable with NJ Mental Health Players
2020-12-15 10:30 - 12:30
contact ebeck@leadingagenjde.org for more info!

#Tuesday StandUp - TBD
2020-12-08 10:00 - 10:15
#TuesdayStandUp is a 15 minute, clinically focused educational teleconference which explores a variety of clinical, regulatory, and operational issues and best practices associated with providing care, supports, and services for older adults. Each call will offer listeners actionable advice designed for hands-on clinical team members, healthcare leaders and clinicians.
Speaker: Kristy Yoskey
Topic: TBD

Senior Living in Response to COVID-19
2020-12-02 12:00 - 13:00
NK Presents: Senior Living in Response to COVID-19
Register here

Workforce Wednesday - Promoting Civility: Engaging Residents and Staff in Anti-Bullying Initiatives
2020-12-02

Effectively Managing Supportive Housing Teams (5 of 5)
2020-12-01 14:00 - 15:30
Effectively Managing Supportive Housing Teams
This webinar series is designed for supervisors in supportive housing. Come and learn about best practices for hiring & retaining staff, trauma informed care, crisis planning and more!
CSH Supportive Housing Training Center
$250 for the 5 class series ($60 each)

Fall 2020: October 28 – December 1
Schedule:
Supervising Supportive Housing Staff – 10/28/20
Strengthening Relationships with Your Staff – 11/3/20
Staff Hiring, Retention, & Recognition – 11/10/20
Tracking Outcomes – 11/17/20
Policies, Procedures & Safety Planning – 12/1/20
Learn more and register here!
***LeadingAge NJ & DE members will receive a 15% discount. Contact ebeck@leadingagenjde.org to learn more.

#Tuesday StandUp - Cultural Competence
2020-11-24 10:00 - 10:15
#TuesdayStandUp is a 15 minute, clinically focused educational teleconference which explores a variety of clinical, regulatory, and operational issues and best practices associated with providing care, supports, and services for older adults. Each call will offer listeners actionable advice designed for hands-on clinical team members, healthcare leaders and clinicians.
Speaker TBD
Subject: Cultural Competence

Housing Happenings: Resilience with Residents
2020-11-18 09:00 - 09:30
LeadingAge Maryland and LeadingAge DC are excited to offer this educational teleconference series designed specifically for affordable housing professionals!
Speaker: Denise A. Bowell, Director of Affordable Living Compliance from Episcopal Retirement Services
Topic: Resilience with Residents

Effectively Managing Supportive Housing Teams (4 of 5)
2020-11-17 14:00 - 15:30

LeadingAge Annual Meeting + EXPO
2020-11-17 - 2020-11-19
Learn more

Effectively Managing Supportive Housing Teams (3 of 5)
2020-11-10 14:00 - 15:30

#Tuesday Standup - TBD
2020-11-10 10:00 - 10:15
#TuesdayStandUp is a 15 minute, clinically focused educational teleconference which explores a variety of clinical, regulatory, and operational issues and best practices associated with providing care, supports, and services for older adults. Each call will offer listeners actionable advice designed for hands-on clinical team members, healthcare leaders and clinicians.
Topic: TBD
Speaker: Kristy Yoskey

LeadingAge Annual Meeting & EXPO
2020-11-10 - 2020-11-12

Train the Trainer Workshop - Virtual
2020-11-09 - 2020-11-15
Train the Trainer Workshop – Virtual
11/9/2020 – 11/15/2020 All Day

Venue
Virtual

Contact
Michelle Palko
609-890-8700
michelle@hcanj.org

A program to prepare personal care assistants, homemaker home health aides, and nurse aides to administer medications in assisted living residences and comprehensive personal care homes, or assisted living programs.
This training will be presented virtually over a period of one week, allowing participants to attend at times most convenient for them. However, the course must be completed by 5 p.m. on November 15. Please read the linked information carefully in order to understand how the course is set up.
Fee:
HCANJ / NJHA / LANJDE members: $90
Non-members: $140
REGISTER ONLINE
Program brochure
Fillable registration form

Workforce Wednesday - Promoting Inclusion: Managing with the Brain in Mind
2020-11-04

Effectively Managing Supportive Housing Teams (2 of 5)
2020-11-03 14:00 - 15:30

Effectively Managing Supportive Housing Teams
2020-10-28 14:00 - 15:30
