CONSUMERS
POLICY MAKERS CY
SENIOR LIVING OPERATORS
INVESTORS $ Will have a
CONSISTENT LEVEL of quality and standards across the industry.
Will have a CLEAR
UNDERSTANDING of the importance of care for people living with dementia and the role of senior living providers.
Will encourage HIGHER QUALITY OUTCOMES
and STRATEGIES related to provision of demen- tia care and provide evidence-based memory care practices to the industry.
Will have an increased AWARENESS of operational needs and requirements for high quality and successful memory care as a service provision and business in senior living.
Will regard senior living operators as
VALUABLE PARTNERS in their efforts to address the health of populations across sites of care, resulting in new business op- portunities for senior living operators.
Will adopt approaches that promote CONSISTENCY
and EFFICIENCY.
HEALTH CARE SYSTEMS
REGULATORS
Improved and more effective care for those with Alzheimer’s and other dementias will lead to better relationships between the industry and consumers, policy makers, and regulators and create new business opportunities with investors and health care sector partners.
1. Quality Standards
Goal: Enhance quality by promoting standards in memory care This goal will include the ability to develop and train a workforce with the skills necessary to provide quality care for residents needing memory care support, establish memory care standards including resident care and program- ming guidelines, and improve safe and effective transitions for residents between care levels.
2. Awareness and Advocacy Goal: Develop platforms for training and education to enhance industry awareness and advocacy in memory care This goal will include educating the senior living industry about Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias, working with national and international organizations to improve coordi- nation and identify model initiatives to advance awareness and readiness, and educate govern- ment agencies on memory care in senior living.
3. Best Practices and Innovation Goal: Increase best practice utilization and innovation in memory care This goal will include conducting research and studies on innovation in memory care, promoting innovation, and sharing inno- vation best practices with senior living and memory care professionals. “Identifying, highlighting and sharing
memory care innovations is an important step toward elevating the collective under- standing of providing optimum care for residents with cognitive impairments,” said Nadelstumph. Argentum members are committed to
advancing the public’s understanding of Alzheimer’s and other dementias, as well as promoting disease management and sharing best care practices.
JOIN US AT THE 2017 ARGENTUM MEMORY CARE
SYMPOSIUM June 20, 2017, City Club of Washington, Washington, D.C.
In 2016, Argentum hosted its first Memory Care Symposium: Innovations from Care to Cure at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. The event focused on evidence-based innovative care approaches and the latest developments and breakthroughs in dementia research. This year, Argentum will examine how best practices and innovation have been successfully implemented at senior living communities.
Learn more about symposium speakers, registration information and eligibility, and other program details at argentum. org/symposia.
sponsored by ® Integrated Care. Better Outcomes.
ARGENTUM QUARTERLY
The inaugural issue of Argentum Quarterly includes research on topics born from the Argentum memory care committee. For example, as part of the Senior Living Innovation Series: Memory Care, the “Idea to Implementation” report builds upon Argentum committee research by focusing on six innovations chosen based on the programs’ effectiveness, ability to be widely implemented, and how well they addressed the top needs expressed among those leading in senior living. Argentum members can access a digital version of this publication online at
argentum.org/store.
sponsored by ® Integrated Care. Better Outcomes.
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ISSUE 1 2017 QUARTERLY
MEMORY CARE INNOVATIONS
Six Programs Transforming Operations and Service Delivery
STATE OF THE SENIOR LIVING WORKFORCE
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