How Aging Life Care Professionals can Help Seniors
May 27, 2022
Episcopal Retirement Services is a leader in providing care, support, and education for those living with cognitive loss and their care partners. ERS is a leader in providing intimate living environments, quality programming and care, innovative training programs and community outreach in an effort to make safe and welcoming spaces for those that live with the disease.
Paola Suro of WCPO 9 News recently sat down with ERS President and CEO Laura Lamb to learn about the Center for Memory Support and Inclusion. Click here for the full story.
ERS provides quality care and intimate living environments that are so critical to those living with dementia. ERS designed its memory care households to ensure loved ones are not overstimulated by sensory elements. We've paid attention to details such as colors, visual cues and smells that might be overwhelming for a loved one.
ERS has a long-standing reputation for providing quality care and is exemplified by its CARF accreditation, and consistently high Medicare ratings, low staff-to-patient ratio. ERS also has been a Top Workplace for the past 12 years according to Enquirer Media.
Enriching Programs & TherapiesERS is a leader in programming for those living with dementia, offering a holistic set of programs for residents not found in other memory support communities.
For the past several years ERS has offered the Living Well Memory Support Therapy program. It combines physical and cognitive exercise programs as well as a combination of art, music and horticultural therapy programs to keep residents stimulated and engaged. The results have been remarkable as our staff and families partner to help improve the lives of our residents.
Our caring staff is a critical component of our Center for Memory Support and Inclusion. Staff training is at the forefront of our efforts to support those who live with cognitive loss and their care partners. Our staff's thorough training includes Teepa Snow’s Positive Approach to Care program, the ERS-developed Yes, And! a training program that builds on theories of improv to positively engage with residents facing challenges in their day-to-day lives.
Community OutreachIn partnership with the Contemporary Arts Center, With Art In Mind is a program that consists of tours and creative activities specially designed for adults with early-stage dementia and their care partners. This program provides visitors the opportunity to explore contemporary art in a way that increases their self-esteem and nourishes their relationships with their care partners and peers. Four times throughout the year, programming is offered free of charge and open to the public. Click here to see the flyer for the next event
Finally, ERS has taken a leadership position in the Cincinnati community by providing education and training for area businesses and organizations to recognize the symptoms of dementia and provide tools to make their businesses safe and welcoming places for those living with the disease and their care partners.
In partnership with the Alzheimer’s Association of Greater Cincinnati, UC Health, and the City of Cincinnati, ERS has established Dementia Inclusive Cincinnati, an organization tasked to make Cincinnati the most dementia inclusive city in the country by 2025.
For more information about Dementia Inclusive Cincinnati, visit our website www.DementiaInclusiveCincinnati.org
