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2025 Assisted Living Virtual Conference
Tuesday, February 04, 2025, 9:00 AM to Wednesday, February 05, 2025, 4:00 PM CST
Category: Education/Training

2025 Virtual Assisted Living & Residential Care Conference, LeadingAge Kansas & LeadingAge Missouri logos, a group of elders clapping in their chairs, February 4 &5, 2025

2025 Virtual Assisted Living & Residential Care Conference 

February 4-5, 2025 | 9:00 AM - 3:45 PM | Zoom

 

LeadingAge Kansas and LeadingAge Missouri are proud to partner for the first Joint Assisted Living & Residential Care Conference. 

Registration: $169 (1 registration=1 attendee)

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Agenda

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

9:00-10:00 | Assisted Living: Growth Trends for the Future | Andy Edeburn, Elder Dynamics

Once heralded as “the alternative to nursing homes”, assisted living has undergone considerable transformation over the last 30 years. Initial emphases around residential models with minimal supports have been gradually displaced resident acuity has grown and aging in place has become increasingly important. The number of assisted living customers in America is expected to double over the next 15 years, but tomorrow’s assisted living customer is not today’s assisted living customer. This session will explore the rapidly expanding opportunity and market for assisted living, how the assisted living model is likely to further evolve and change in both the near and long-term, and what operators should be thinking about as they position for future success.

Session Objectives:

  • Summarize the evolution of assisted living care and services over the last 30 years
  • Explain key trends and market forces shaping the future of assisted living
  • Outline essential steps operators should consider to adapt and prepare future change

 

10:15-11:15 | Regulatory Breakouts: Licensing Agencies | Lacey Hunter, KDADS; Tracy Niekamp, MDHSS
Kansas: This presentation will review the current regulatory field for state license only adult care homes in Kansas including frequently cited tags, common non-compliance misconceptions, introductions to state licensure and regulatory team. It will also cover several licensure, certification and enforcement topics including: initial licensure, change of information, change of ownership, management companies, enforcement remedies, closure, discharge reporting and continue care retirement communities. 
Session Objectives:
  1. Attendee will have a better understanding of minimum adult care home regulatory expectations.
  2. Attendee will have knowledge of the Kansas Organizations Tracking Application (KOTA).
  3. Attendee will be given contact information for state regulatory and licensure teams and understand how to contact the KDADS with questions and concerns. 

Missouri: Session Description & Objectives Coming Soon!


11:30-12:30 | Garden of Eatin' - Creating A Culinary Culture in Your Dining Program | Amanda Marsh, Martin Bros. Distributing

In today’s world of long-term care, a community’s dining program is often the deciding factor when it comes to a resident selecting their future home in a care community.  And despite the dining program being an integral part of growing resident census, it is often an overlooked and underappreciated department.  Together we will look at how and why creating a culinary culture in your community can enhance your resident and staff satisfaction and the steps you can take to implement a successful dining experience.

Session Objectives:

    1. Discover the importance of meeting your residents’ food needs and rituals.
    2. Implement a successful dining program in your community.
    3. Engage your residents and staff in a collaborative dining program.

12:30-1:30 | Lunch Break

1:30-2:30 | Supporting Families to Create a Cohesive Team: Building Trust, Managing Expectations, and Working Together | Jamie Cobb-Tinsley & Hollie Glover, James L. West Center for Dementia Care

To explore best practices in supporting family members of senior living residents to build trust, manage expectations, and create a team that works together for the benefit of the resident. Family members advocating for the well-being of their loved one in senior living is necessary and encouraged, especially for the residents who cannot fully participate in their own care. However, there may come a point when a family member has unrealistic expectations of the senior living staff. In this session, an expert in family support services will impart best practices in respectful and transparent communication, and how to work collaboratively with family care partners.
Session Objectives:
    1. Establish and maintain the expectations of family members and the senior living community.
    2. Understand how to actively listen to families and recognize best ways to respond.
    3. Coach community staff to recognize best courses of interaction and procedure to work with family members.

2:45-3:45 | Mid-Conference Keynote: Authentic Leadership | Julie Thorson, Friendship Haven

Join us for an inspiring and energetic one hour keynote that will ignite your journey towards discovering your authentic leadership style. In this dynamic presentation, we will explore the power of authenticity in leadership and how it can transform not only your professional life but also those around you. This session will give you the opportunity to learn more about yourself and who you are as a leader and who you want to be, because when you lead authentically, you'll inspire others to do the same!
Session Objectives:
  1.  Learn and practice easy to follow attainable tools to help you uncover more about yourself and your authentic leadership style.
  2. Understand how bringing your authentic self every day impacts your team and will help create a healthy work culture.
  3. Develop an understanding of the key principles and actionable steps for building resilience and maintain emotional well-being.

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

9:00-10:00 | Creating Service Opportunities for Individuals Living with Dementia | Daphne Johnson, Respite for All Foundation

Individuals living with dementia have often lived full, rich lives making contributions through their careers and community service. Day programs that offer group service projects provide opportunities to rekindle that sense of purpose. Although their skills may have been affected by changing health, working on service projects is an opportunity to build up wellbeing in individuals living with dementia. Attendees will learn best practices for service projects that can be performed in a group setting. Understand how bringing your authentic self every day impacts your team and will help create a healthy work culture.

Session Objectives: Coming Soon!
10:15-11:15 | Regulatory Breakouts: Emergency Preparedness | Rachel Martin, Kansas Office of the State Fire Marshal; Kara Amann-Kale, Missouri Hospital Association
Kansas: In today’s breakout session, I will explain the code requirements for Assisted Living facilities, where to find them, and how to work within those requirements to provide a safe environment for your residents.  I will go over some of the frequently cited violations found by KSFM staff during inspections and how you can avoid having them cited at your facility.  I will also touch on some of the resources available on the KSFM website and how to utilize our Code Consultation Form to ask code and compliance related questions.
Session Objectives:
  1. Attendee will identify applicable code requirements and where to find them.
  2. Attendee will recognize the importance of keeping organized maintenance records for review during KSFM inspections.
  3. Attendee will utilize the KSFM website resources to aid with code compliance and questions.

Missouri: Emergency preparedness programs are essential for long-term care facilities to ensure continuity of operations, patient care and safety for all – staff, residents and anyone else who may be visiting or in the facility. This session will explain pillars of successful emergency preparedness programs, guided by CMS emergency preparedness requirements and will include tips and tricks. The session will expand upon requirements into ways to be successful beyond what you have to do to help increase your facility’s resiliency in the face of emergencies. The importance of forming relationships will be heavily discussed including internal, external and government relationships to consider forming and strategies to develop those relationships, such as joining your regional healthcare coalition, will be explored.

Session Objectives:
  1. Recipients will understand tips and tricks related to emergency preparedness programs, guided by the CMS Emergency Preparedness Requirements.
  2. Recipients will understand why relationships are important in emergency preparedness and who to consider forming a relationship with, including healthcare coalitions.
  3. Recipients will understand the importance of developing a facility emergency preparedness program.

11:30-12:30 | Residency Agreements: Strategies for Avoiding Pitfalls | Brooke Bennett Aziere & Amanda Wilwert, Foulston Siefkin LLP

 

This presentation will focus on residency agreements in assisted living and residential care settings and provide strategies for avoiding common pitfalls related to those agreements. Presenters Brooke Bennett Aziere and Amanda M. Wilwert will walk attendees through key provisions that should and shouldn't be included in residency agreements and discuss how the agreements protect the organization. They will also dive into tricky issues such as how to communicate the content of the agreements to residents, involuntary discharges, and the importance of sticking to the terms of the agreements.
Session Objectives: 
  1. Understand key provisions to include in residency agreements.
  2. Recognize the importance of following the provisions of the residency agreement.
  3. Identify common issues with residency agreements and communicating the terms of such agreements with residents.

 

12:30-1:30 | Lunch Break

1:30-2:30 | Art Exploration with Elders Using Visual Thinking Strategies | Kim Richards, Mariana Kistler Beach Museum of Art

We think about making art as good for our brain and mood. Looking at and engaging with art also stimulates the brain’s creation of the “feel good” chemical dopamine and the neurotransmitter serotonin. This session will introduce you to Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS) an interactive, facilitated looking exercise with art. VTS sessions are successful with people at varying cognitive levels because it is participation “in the moment” with a long-lasting sense of well-being. These discussions do not require any knowledge of art from the participants or the facilitators. We will experience the looking activity, breakdown its structure and identify successful images to use in a discussion. 
Session Objectives:
  1. Summarize the mental and social benefits of art looking with the aging community.
  2. Demonstrate the correct use of Visual Thinking Strategies questions and language.
  3. Compare a suitable image to a non-suitable image for Visual Thinking Strategies.

2:45-3:45 | Strut Your Stuff: Strategies for Excellent AL Marketing in the Digital Age | Steve Howell, Experience Fresh

 This session will touch on several points in a prospect's journey where your marketing can help create a better experience for your AL Audience.

Session Objectives:
  1. SEO and how on-site and off-site tactics can help improve search performance.
  2. Paid Media and which tools to use to target AL audiences
  3. Content that meets prospective residents where they are in their decision process.
  4. Reporting that provides actionable data and informs budget decisions. 

 

Continuing Education
This educational event has been approved for up to 7.0 continuing education hours in the core of Administration and 3.0 continuing education hours in the core of Resident Care 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 10.0 contact hours applicable for APRN, RN or LPN relicensure. Kansas State Board of Nursing provider number: LT0102-1116.

Continuing Education credit for Missouri licenses is pending.

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


Registration Policy
Registration for the 2025 Virtual Assisted Living & Residential Care Conference includes digital handouts and tools for each of the sessions, ONE connection to the live virtual conference for ONE person, and instructions for receiving CE credit/attendance certificate for one person. A recording of this conference is NOT included in the registration fee. 

Cancellation Policies
Substitutions for events are always welcome. These individuals can be anyone employed on your campus, board members, resident family members, or residents. Substitutes must be made for the whole event.

If the event is livestreamed, in-person registrations can be switched to livestream by contacting [email protected] no later than one hour prior to the start of the event. In the event that a substitution or change to livestream is not possible, requests for refunds must be made in writing to [email protected] 


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