2024 Webinar: Creating Joy and Festivity-For Isolated People-During the Holidays

Wednesday, December 4, 2024 | 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM | Zoom

LeadingAge Kansas is proud to partner with Carmen Bowman and Edu-Catering to bring you this webinar. 

*Please note: A recording of this session is NOT included in the registration fee.*

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Session Description

Explore inspiring, simple ideas to create joy. Although focused on the Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year’s holidays, a Creating Joy framework is offered for year-round. Following CMS Tag F679, we’ll focus on each individual’s interests before groups and meaningful engagement before busywork or being occupied. Also, out of this regulation, we will highlight community connection and connectedness, one of the Eden Alternative domains of wellbeing included at CMS Tag 679.

Objectives:

1. Participants will be able to name the requirement to actually focus on individuals’ interests before groups at Tag 679.
2. Participants will be able to list the requirements at Tag 679 for community connection, preferences, choices, interests and the seven domains of wellbeing including connectedness as identified by the Eden Alternative.
3. Participants will be able to describe a framework for creating joy on an individual basis in order to combat loneliness, isolation and boredom.

Registration fee includes digital handout, one connection to the live webinar and instructions for receiving CE credit/attendance certificate for one person. A recording of this webinar is NOT included in the registration fee.

Faculty:

Carmen Bowman | Edu-Catering
Carmen Bowman is a consultant, trainer, author and owner of Edu-Catering: Catering Education for Compliance and Culture Change, turning her former role of regulator into educator.  Carmen was a Colorado state surveyor for nursing homes, assisted livings and adult day programs, a policy analyst with CMS Central Office teaching the national Basic Surveyor Course, and the first certified activity professional to be a surveyor. As a contractor to CMS, Carmen co-developed the original Artifacts of Culture Change, Artifacts 2.0 and first-ever for Assisted Living, facilitated both Creating Home national symposiums on culture change and the environment, and then food and dining. Carmen led the Dining Practice Standards task force. She has a Master’s in Healthcare Systems, a Bachelor's in Social Work, is a Certified Eden Alternative Associate and Mentor, Certified Validation Worker, Group Practitioner and Presenter.  Carmen co-founded the Colorado Culture Change Coalition. With Action Pact she has authored eight culture change workbooks and hosts Conversations in Culture Change with Carmen every month for 15 years now. Carmen is Co-Editor of the international journal Activities, Adaptations and Aging: Purposeful and Dignified Living for Older Adults. She started a new eResource series called Using Regulations to Reject & Replace Institution with Home & Normal Life starting with GUARDIANS OF NORMAL LIFE and encourages all to become one!      

Continuing Education:
This educational event has been approved for up to 1.5 continuing education hours in the core of Administration for Licensed Adult Care Home Administrators, Adult Care Home Operators and Dietitians by the Kansas Department of Aging and Disability Services. Health Occupations and Credentialing approved provider number (LTS A0009).

LeadingAge Kansas is approved as a provider of continuing nursing education by the Kansas State Board of Nursing. This course offering is approved for 1.5 contact hours applicable for APRN, RN or LPN relicensure. Kansas State Board of Nursing provider number: LT0102-1116.

*Continuing education hours are subject to change.
*Dates and Times are subject to change.