We are lucky. As aging services providers, it’s easy for us to see the value of our work. The lives we touch and the families and caregivers we support—all have an impact well beyond the walls of our organizations.
LADC Opening Keynote Speaker: Matt Paxton
Matt Paxton is the founder of WayForth and featured extreme cleaner on the hit TV show Hoarders. He started cleaning out houses after his father and grandfather passed away in the same year. The experience allowed him to recognize the immense impact physical items have on a person’s life and relationships, and he focused his career on helping others solve difficult living situations caused by excess possessions.
LADC Closing Speaker: Dan Cinelli
Dan Cinelli is a Principal and Executive Director at Perkins Eastman. Dan has worked with more than 125 national senior living not-for-profit organizations, sponsors, and associations and has become a true visionary in the field. He leverages his 32 years of experience to facilitate his clients’ strategic thinking. He has been a speaker, collaborator, strategic partner, and advisor to LeadingAge and 15 other not-for-profit state associations since 1982. He is a frequent contributor to industry publications and a regular speaker on future elder care consumer trends. Dan has given more than 90 lectures with life-changing ideas to a variety of senior housing and gerontology organizations over the past 25 years.
Together we can make a difference.LeadingAge DC Business Partners and Provider members partner together to improve the lives of the people we serve.
REGISTRATION AND BREAKFAST WITH BUSINESS PARTNER BOUTIQUE – 7:30 – 8:30 AM
OPENING SESSION - 8:30 - 9:45 am
Continuing Education: LADC will apply for 1.25 NAB, NASW, DCBoNursing
From Mess to Success
Keynote speaker: Matt Paxton, Founder of WayForth
As one of the top hoarding c lean-up experts in the country, Matt Paxton, author of The Secret Lives of Hoarders, has appeared in over 80 episodes of the hit A&E Network TV show Hoarders. Through personal experience and his work with hoarders, Matt recognized the unique challenges that seniors face as they prepare to transition into long term care settings. He understands that decluttering and/or downsizing is so much more than getting rid of physical “stuff”. That stuff contains decades of memories, history, and emotional attachments. Matt has combined his professional experience with his passion for seniors to truly make a difference.
During the Opening General Session, Matt Paxton uses his unique mix of humor and brutal honesty to share his journey of how he ended up cleaning the messiest homes in America. This fast-paced message will make you laugh, cry and be inspired to make a difference.
BREAKOUT SESSIONS A – 10:00 - 11:00 am
Continuing Education: LADC has applied for 1.0 NAB, NASW, DCBoNursing for all breakouts sessions
A1- Gratitude Interventions with Direct Care Workers in a Dementia-Specific Assisted Living: A Pilot Study
Speakers: Dr. Tabassum Majid, Executive Director of the Integrace Institute and Linda Roszak Burton, Executive Coach
Reports on the high degree of caregiver burnout, toxic work environments, and a chronically disengaged workforce are creating significant problems for dementia-specific healthcare organizations. Knowledge of how to build and keep positive momentum through behavioral incentives is challenging for leadership. This session will share both the neuroscience of gratitude and results of a study using a gratitude intervention with dementia healthcare DCW and the positive impact on employee engagement and finding meaningfulness in their work with residents.
A2 - The Armed Forces Retirement Home: The past, present and future. (Includes a tour of the home)
Speaker: Susan Bryhan, Administrator, Armed Forces Retirement Home, Washington, DC
The Armed Forces Retirement Home has deep historical roots serving the enlisted veterans in America. Participants will learn about the evolution in funding and the services the home provides to veterans. In addition, they will see and learn more about the recreational resources for veterans and the small house model. Finally, the participants will learn how they can partner with the home to assist aging veterans.
A3 - Hot Topics in Affordable and Independent Housing
Speaker: Lisa Tunik, Reno & Cavanaugh, PLLC
Explore hot-button elderly housing matters that pose compliance risks in assisted housing communities, including assistance animal issues, tenant mental health concerns, and tips for preventing sexual harassment, a current Fair Housing enforcement focus of HUD’s. In this interactive forum, participants will receive in depth instruction on all these issues, explore relevant case studies, and will have ample opportunity to discuss their unique concerns and issues.
BREAKOUT SESSIONS B – 11:15 - 12:15 am
Continuing Education: LADC has applied for 1.0 NAB, NASW, DCBoNursing for all breakouts sessions
B1 - Achieving Speed, Spread, & Sustainability and Development of Leaders in Senior Living Organizations - A Case Study - John Knox Village, Pompano Beach, FL
Speakers: Ray Johnson, Managing Principal of Caldwell Butler & Associates and Bruce Chittenden, CFO of John Knox Village
Learn how Top Performing Healthcare organizations achieve speed, spread, sustainability to improve margins and develop middle manager to become more effective in managing change. A case study of John Knox Village in Pompano Beach, FL will be presented
B2 – The Climate of Change: Stay Ahead of the Curve
Speaker: Stephanie Kessler is a Partner in RKL’s Senior Living Services Consulting Group
With the influx of regulatory change, it is hard to keep up with it all, let alone make sure your team is aware. This session will cover the current regulatory and reimbursement changes and how your organization can weather the storm.
B3 - What if Wellbeing was a Matter of Practice?
Speakers: Elizabeth B. Boyd, Ph.D., Congregational Resources Coordinator at Seabury Resources for Aging and Rev. Susan K. Walker, Deacon, Episcopal Diocese of Washington and Leasing Agent/Resident Services Director for St. Mary’s Court
A sense of wellbeing in later life can be enhanced by spiritual tools and contemplative practices that help us balance the losses and gains of living into the “third age.” Learn how a new multi-modal curriculum on the spirituality of aging is reframing aging for persons seeking deeper insight and reflection on their lives. Sightlines: Spirituality & Purpose for the Path Ahead uses video presentations, directed discussion, contemplative practices, and the arts to encourage connection, build community, and promote exploration of purpose.
NETWORKING LUNCH AND BUSINESS PARTNER BOUTIQUE – 12:15 – 1:30 pm
BREAKOUT SESSIONS C – 1:30 - 2:30pm
Continuing Education: LADC will apply for 1.75 NAB, NASW, DCBoNursing where appropriate
C1 – Workplace Accountability: Stop Holding People Accountable!
Speakers: Rob McMonagle, Senior Director of Learning and Organizational Development, and Helene Wiswall Perdue, Senior Consultant, Learning and Organizational Development, Asbury Communities
Asbury Communities is on a journey to build a more highly accountable organization. In this session, you will learn why accountability is one of the most important behaviors necessary to drive change in the workforce. We’ll dispel a common myth about accountability and discuss how engagement without accountability leads to entitlement. We’ll share what true accountable behaviors look like, how Asbury is measuring the accountability of its workforce, and actions Asbury has put in place to build a more accountable workforce.
C2 – IPAs: The Secret Weapon In Your Arsenal For PDPM
Speaker: Melissa Sabo is the Chief Operating Officer and Lead Consultant with Gravity Healthcare Consulting
Interim Payment Assessments, or IPAs, are a critical piece of achieving accurate reimbursement under the Patient Driven Payment Model (PDPM). Providers need to understand how IPAs are correctly used and the risk associated with missing IPAs when they are indicated. This session will include a reimagined Stand Up Meeting process to guide your team to hone their skills at identifying and scheduling IPAs.
C3 – How smart speakers will reinvent senior living experiences
Speaker: Kim Kessler, VP, Product, Caremerge
Kim Kessler, Vice President of Product at Caremerge, will talk about how daily living experiences of seniors are at the verge of getting re-invented. After deploying smart speakers to a large number of senior care communities, Caremerge observed both the shortcomings and possibilities of smart speakers first hand. Kim will talk about Caremerge's findings as well as how the technology behind smart speakers is improving at an exponential rate and can possibly change how seniors interact and connect with providers and family members.
CLOSING SESSION – 2:45 - 4:00 pm
Continuing Education: LADC will apply for 1.0 NAB, NASW, DCBoNursing
The Clean Slate Project
Keynote speaker: Dan Cinelli is a Principal and Executive Director at Perkins Eastman.
After a day of exploring solutions and best practices in senior living, it is time to envision the future in this workshop style session with Perkins Eastman! Explore the senior living with fresh eyes.
The influence of aging Baby Boomers has been talked about among LeadingAge members for well over a decade—but are we truly prepared for the changes that the aging Boomer Consumer and those beyond will bring to our industry? Are LeadingAge members’ current products and services able to respond to how the world is changing on a bigger scale by way of innovative technologies, medical advancements, new lifestyle pursuits, and changing regulations?
“Culture kills innovation” is an old adage that rematerialized recently when we asked fifteen of LeadingAge’s top CEOs the question: what obstacle would they predict will prevent their organizations from embracing these future disruptions? The group unanimously answered: a risk aversive culture, slow moving organizations, and entrenched attitudes of board governance.
During a workshop-style process, Perkins Eastman will share their year-long research project, Clean Slate, that will depict a number of new senior living scenarios that will be upon us before 2030. They will then lead participants through a series of group exercises helping them understand how to support idea generation, experimentation, a questioning attitude, mistake tolerance, risk taking, and change. Furthermore, we will suggest action steps for execution, visualizing partnerships, embracing disruptors, and synthesizing these pieces together to create strategic directions for a changing future.
RECEPTION AND BUSINESS PARTNER BOUTIQUE – 4:00 – 4:30 PM
The lives we touch and the families and caregivers we support—all have an impact well beyond the walls of our organizations. the walls of our organizations.