Pioneer Network

It's somehow been five years since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, but the wounds and lessons from that period remain vitally relevant to this day. Filmmaker Kyle Henry joins "Elevate Eldercare" this week to discuss his latest work, "Time Passages" — which stands as a tribute not just to one family struggling with the impending loss of a matriarch during a global pandemic, but to all the caregivers and people living with dementia who have traveled similar paths. Tune in, and check out the show notes to find a screening near you! https://lnkd.in/dsvCD9Qv

We're happy to announce that we're working with Presbyterian Villages of Michigan on a grant project designed to replicate the Thome Rivertown model across the country! This unique community in Detroit houses PACE services, Green House homes, and affordable assisted living apartments on the same campus, with all services covered under Medicaid. There's no single payment model for a neighborhood like this, so PVM and its partners have spent years collecting scores of state, federal, and local funding sources to ensure that the community can continue to serve people of all income levels. Funded by Enterprise Community Partners, the grant will allow us to develop a blueprint for a new payment and funding model that will make places like Thome Rivertown the norm, not the exception. Together with our grant partners Anne Montgomery and Joe Angelelli, PhD, we hope to build the care infrastructure of the future. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/ebHf3dEC

Great news from Massachusetts, where Navigator Homes of Martha's Vineyard is making excellent progress on their new Green House community! When completed, Navigator Homes will serve both elders in Green House homes and care staff in dedicated workforce housing. Backed by a USDA loan and supported by the wider Martha's Vineyard community, Navigator Homes stands as a testament to what's possible when dedicated leaders build bridges and seek creative paths to the shared goal of dignified, person-directed care.

The momentum for the EINSTEIN Option just keeps growing! Thanks to McKnight's for covering this bold but eminently possible plan to build full-continuum eldercare services in communities across the country. As Anne Montgomery told McKnight's, older adults "just want to live their lives and be able to tap into and access services when they need them. As their needs change, they want services to be embedded in their own geographic community, and, of course, they want them to be affordable – that’s where the EINSTEIN Option comes in and what it aims to do.”

There are just 4 days left to submit your proposal to speak at the the Center for Innovation: The Green House Project and Pioneer Network 2025 conference in St. Louis, Mo. We invite you to take this opportunity to present your expertise, knowledge, and experience in front of hundreds of individuals in St. Louis from Aug. 11 to 14, 2025! With the theme of?"Mobilize the Movement," submissions?should address the needs of attendees coming from a wide variety of organizations such as skilled nursing, assisted living, HCBS, advocacy groups, and attendees currently practicing within various models. Submit your proposal here: https://lnkd.in/e3DT4kTa Please note that the deadline for submitting is?FEB.?14 at?11:59 PM CENTRAL.

Breaking news! After an incredibly successful 2024 event, the Center for Innovation: The Green House Project and Pioneer Network conference is returning to a familiar time and place — St. Louis in the summertime! We'll have more information about speakers, sessions, and events, including a special commemoration of the landmark Pioneer Network St. Louis Accord of 2005, in the new year. But until then, mark your calendars for August 11-13 and get ready to gather under the Gateway Arch this summer!

This week, we continue our 2024 in review by revisiting this June episode with Martin Rix of Belong, an organization that's creating household model care settings in the United Kingdom. At the Center for Innovation: The Green House Project and Pioneer Network, we're proud to have founded the Household Model International Consortium with Belong and Australia's HammondCare — with the goal of learning best practices and ideas across international borders. Tune in for a conversation on the ways that the household model and person-directed care practices transcend cultural differences: https://lnkd.in/dsvCD9Qv

Today, we welcomed Tom Symondson, CEO of the Aged & Community Care Providers Association, ACCPA to ACH Group’s newest residential care home, Healthia. ACH Group’s, Healthia is the first Green House Project (Center for Innovation: The Green House Project and Pioneer Network), trademarked home in Australia. Tom joined ACH Group, CEO Linda Feldt for a comprehensive tour of Healthia and met with residents and staff to experience first-hand, the award-winning home and small home model of care being delivered at Healthia. Accompanied by Daniela Ciccarello, Bev Malone ACCPA, and ACH Group leaders, Ivy, Marie and Chloe. Residents from Pine House, invited Linda, Tom and the team into their home to experience small home living. The group also visited Healthia’s, state-of-the-art gym where residents work toward their brain health and physical fitness goals. They also experienced the vibrant social atmosphere as residents came together to decorate their home’s Christmas tree. The tour was a great opportunity to highlight how ACH Group’s small home model is working successfully to support people to live good lives.

Big news to start the holiday week! We've launched www.AgingInnovation.org, the new online home for the Center for Innovation: The Green House Project and Pioneer Network! Our three brands — The Green House Project, Pioneer Network, and EmpowerED — contribute equally to advancing our mission of catalyzing person-directed living and empowered cultures in the community of one's choice. There's no one path to improving services and supports for older adults. At CFI, we're committed to working with organizations, advocates, and other stakeholders to build the care environments that best suit their unique needs — whether it's full physical transformation into Green House homes, culture change work in the Pioneer tradition, or workforce training via our EmpowerED eLearning platform. Check it out here, and don't be surprised if you get messages from our team from the new domain: https://lnkd.in/eSzS2hWh

I was proud to receive the Trailblazer award from the Center for Innovation, on behalf of my mother, Naomi Feil.