(PDF) Avandell: Reimagining The Dementia Experience Full

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4. Description Foreword by James Keach, Director of Glen Campbell: I8217ll Be Me and Turning PointAvandell is for anyone who is involved in caring for a person with dementia. Larry Carlson, retired CEO of United Methodist Communities, shares his new approach to memory and dementia care in the USA. The innovative De Hogewey8482 dementia village, a model based in the Netherlands, served as the catalyst that inspired Avandell8217s embrace of memory care. Larry offers his unique, personal process of discovering how to optimize day-to-day living for people and their families8217 who experience challenges around the growing dementia care crisis. Larry is resolved to bring new elements of joyful and humane dementia care to eldercare communities.Through compelling stories of families touched by dementia, Larry describes how caring for a loved one at home can become an impossible and poignant challenge, even for families with abundant financial resources. Larry begins with the premise that there is a better way to do things and explains how he has called upon his decades of experience and faith to bring the Avandell concept to life. The evolution of this new way contrasts with our traditional institutional idea of elder care models, what we all agree is an outdated hospital-based approach.Avandell embraces people with dementia, allowing them the dignity and joy to live the life they love. As they go through their day, residents hear the word 8220yes8221 more than 8220no.8221 This kinder, more humane approach is superior in terms of quality of life, leading to a more authentic and normal experience for the individual with a dementia diagnosis, their family, and caregivers. This furthers the need for Avandell8217s vision in the now.ABOUT LARRY CARLSONLarry Carlson was the President &ampCEO of United Methodist Communities (UMC) for eleven years before his retirement. Larry8217s career in senior living spans more than forty-five years, having served in leadership roles for six not-for-profit, faith-driven organizations in four states.Larry has diverse and extensive experience in multiple aspects of eldercare administration. His expertise includes CCRC, long-term skilled nursing, post-acute rehabilitation, congregate housing, adult day health, memory care, and assisted living. He is skilled in operations, strategic planning, board development, new project design and development, construction, and start-ups. During Larry8217s career, he championed and implemented many diverse and innovative business strategies and programs to better the lives of those he served.As a newlywed at twenty-three, Larry and his wife Melanie lived five years in a not-for-profit, community-based nursing facility in Boston as he began his career. Today, Melanie and Larry, married forty-eight years, are 8220crazy8221 for their three daughters and four grandchildren.

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