Person-Directed Care and Elder Empowerment with Jill Vitale-Aussem

04/11/23 • 37 min

Now or Never: Long-Term Care Strategy with Kosta Yepifantsev

Join Kosta and his guest: Jill Vitale-Aussem, President and CEO of Christian Living Communities, a Colorado-based not-for-profit serving more than 1,000 older adults and their families.

Jill is a licensed nursing home administrator, LeadingAge Leadership Academy Fellow, Reframing Aging facilitator, and author of Disrupting the Status Quo of Senior Living: A Mindshift.

Today we’re talking about Person-Directed Care and Elder Empowerment.

Find out more about Jill Vitale-Aussem and Christian Living Communities:
https://www.jillvitaleaussem.com/
https://www.christianlivingcommunities.org/

Jill's Book, Disrupting the Status Quo of Senior Living: A Mindshift:
https://www.amazon.com/Disrupting-Status-Quo-Senior-Living/dp/1938870824
Find out more about Kosta Yepifantsev:
http://kostayepifantsev.com/

Join Kosta and his guest: Jill Vitale-Aussem, President and CEO of Christian Living Communities, a Colorado-based not-for-profit serving more than 1,000 older adults and their families.

Jill is a licensed nursing home administrator, LeadingAge Leadership Academy Fellow, Reframing Aging facilitator, and author of Disrupting the Status Quo of Senior Living: A Mindshift.

Today we’re talking about Person-Directed Care and Elder Empowerment.

Find out more about Jill Vitale-Aussem and Christian Living Communities:
https://www.jillvitaleaussem.com/
https://www.christianlivingcommunities.org/

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The Business of Aging: Who's Paying for It and Why It Matters with Marc Cohen

Join Kosta and his guest: Marc Cohen, professor of gerontology at the University of Massachusetts, Boston and Co-Director of the LeadingAge LTSS.

Throughout his career Marc’s work has been published and quoted extensively, including interviews by The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Time Magazine as a thought leader on issues affecting eldercare financing.

Today we’re talking about the business of aging, who's paying for it and why it matters.

Find out more about Marc Cohen:
https://www.umb.edu/faculty_staff/bio/marc_cohen
Find out more about Kosta Yepifantsev:
http://kostayepifantsev.com/

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Medicare Mistakes You Can’t Afford to Make with Danielle Roberts

Join Kosta and his guest: Danielle Roberts, Co-Founder of Boomer Benefits and author of 10 Costly Medicare Mistakes You Can't Afford to Make.

Throughout her career, Danielle has personally helped thousands of beneficiaries with their plan decisions as she specialized in Medicare-related insurance and became a member of the prestigious Forbes Finance Council.

Find out more about Danielle Roberts and Boomer Benefits:
https://boomerbenefits.com/

Danielle's Book, 10 Costly Medicare Mistakes You Can't Afford to Make:
https://www.amazon.com/Costly-Medicare-Mistakes-Cant-Afford/dp/1735378615/
Find out more about Kosta Yepifantsev:
http://kostayepifantsev.com/

Now or Never: Long-Term Care Strategy with Kosta Yepifantsev - Person-Directed Care and Elder Empowerment with Jill Vitale-Aussem

Transcript

Jill Vitale-Aussem00:00:04.559

so often look at family members or paid team members as caregivers. And what that really implies is that I'm, I'm here to take care of you. And I don't you don't have anything to give back to me. Right. And that's very disempowering for people. It's very paternalistic. And so that concept of care partners, we are all in this together family members, paid team members, volunteers, people that work in the community. We're all in this toget