C.A.R.E. Insights Blog

Thoughts on the Environment of Care

This blog explores how the environment of care influences the patient's experience and staff well-being, with a focus on how sound, visual atmosphere, pacing, and sensory load shape healing and outcomes in healthcare settings. Topics include patient safety and satisfaction, hospital noise, nurse wellness, HCAHPS, sleep, and much more. Our goal is to share practical insights to help you create environments that heal.

Joy and Grief: The Paradox of the Holidays

December 7, 2021

This holiday season, I am reminded that we are still in the COVID-19 pandemic and celebrating the holidays, once again, with this virus. However, this year has shown itself to have been one of the richest years in moving us towards brighter days.

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A Pandemic of Loneliness: Long-Term Care During COVID-19

May 20, 2020

To talk about long-term care (LTC) facilities during this pandemic calls for an acknowledgment of the many nurses, aides, administrators, housekeepers, and others that care for our most fragile elders

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Palliative Care and Hospice: Walking With Us To the End of the Path

November 16, 2018

Years pass without much notice, especially as an adult child realizing how our parents age. For us, they seem to stay the same for years and years… then, as if

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Moving to Person-Directed Care

December 15, 2017

With his permission, I am sharing an excerpt from blog post written by a dear friend, George Drake, that speaks to the issue of person-directed care in residential care facilities.

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Music for the Elderly: The Dark Side of Nostalgia

March 4, 2016

The neurological benefits of music for the elderly with dementia have been well documented. The phenomenon of elderly stroke patients with aphasia (not being able to speak, but being able

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Ageism in Healthcare: Fear or Fact?

May 22, 2015

I just saw Dr. Bill Thomas’ “Age of Disruption” presentation at the University of Nevada Reno. It made me think about ageism in healthcare. As a gerontologist and leader in the

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Use of Music with People with Dementia: Doing the Obvious

January 23, 2015

So much research, and so little traction! That is what’s been happening with strong data supporting the effective use of music with people with dementia. There is even research that points to

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Age, Aging, and the Aged: Who Among Us

February 22, 2011

Looking at old age from the a Baby Boomers perspective, healthcare perspective, economic perspective is far different from looking at an old person, a seriously old person whose life is of the past and whose present is about waiting.

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