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Concurrent Sessions: Day One
Concurrent Session A
Hard Conversations about Diversity, Inclusion and Equity Done Well
Christopher Ridenhour, Director of Workplace Culture, SpiriTrust Lutheran
If only our professional skill sets and training were enough to create harmony and equity in our organizations. And while our "Offer Letter" encouraged us to bring our "whole selves" to work, each of us, arrived with a distinct world-view, beliefs, biases, and life histories as part of the package (or is that "baggage"?). Let's jump right in! The idea of the "melting pot" is overused, clichéd, and misinterpreted. The concept of "colorblindness" is problematic and untrue. Just believing that we should all "get along" is an ineffectual strategy that keeps us from achieving the kind of dignity that all team members crave and deserve. How will our most profound conflicts find resolution without a safe space to ask questions and share the beliefs and the experiences that have shaped our attitudes, ideas and actions about "difference." Work-relevant, highly unique activities, and authentic conversation will bring us closer together to alleviate the heat and embarrassment that accompanies these taboo topics. Isn't it time for a no-holds-barred experience filled with grace and absent of guilt? Storytelling? Of course. Tears? Possibly. Belly laughs? Count on it. Everyone will leave more competent, confident and committed to operationalizing the tools and systems taught throughout the session.
As Director of Workplace Culture for a Pennsylvania-based CCRC and Social Services Management Company, Christopher Ridenhour develops and delivers high-impact staff education focused on World Class Hospitality, Elevated Employee Engagement, New Supervisor Training, Aspects of Inspired Leadership, and Total Team Commitment, among other critical employee competencies.
For the last 16 years, Christopher has traveled across North America and Canada keynoting and training for National Aging Associations including Pioneer Network (led numerous sessions including Plenary), LeadingAge, American College of Health Care Administrators, American Health Care Association, National Center for Assisted Living, and the Ontario Association for Non-Profit Homes and Services for Seniors. Extraordinary participant evaluations have resulted in earning the distinction of becoming LeadingAge's highest-rated speaker/trainer. As recognition for his years of service to hundreds of communities across Pennsylvania and the country, in 2015, Christopher was awarded LeadingAge's Facilitator of the Year.
A Practical Guide to Engaging in Dementia Friendly Communities
Rachel Neal, Programs Coordinator, Person Centred Universe
Jim Kinsey, Vice President of Continuum Care Services, Planetree International
There are 50 million people living in our world with dementia. Many of them are living in our communities and accessing businesses and services to complete activities of daily living to remain independent within their community. With the population of people who are diagnosed with dementia only expected to rise, it is important we learn how to best support these individuals through dementia-friendly culture and design changes. In this session, the presenters will provide practical ways to inform dementia inclusive environments, and provide a look into what it's like to live with dementia in the community.
Rachel Neal serves as Programs Coordinator at Person Centred Universe, a consulting and educational training company, that aims to make the world a better place for those living with dementia. Following completion of her Bachelor of Arts Degree, majoring in Gerontology at St. Thomas University, Rachel participated in an 'Aging in the Life Course' summer study program from the University of Graz in Austria. Rachel has worked in the long-term care field, specifically with persons living with dementia, for ten years, using her passion to work towards person centred culture change in the field of dementia. She has been an active volunteer for the Alzheimer Society of New Brunswick (Canada) for three years, facilitating support groups and educational/social events for people living with dementia and their loved ones. Through her work at Person Centred Universe, Rachel has developed content and taught several courses on topics such as: Activity Professionals, Dementia Education, and Dementia Friendly Communities. Most recently, she has developed a curriculum for businesses looking to better serve those living with dementia. Rachel has worked on projects relating to the field of dementia that range from creating/influencing dementia inclusive environments to coordination of Provincial Alzheimer Enhancing Care Conferences.
Jim Kinsey is the Vice President of Continuum of Care Services at Planetree International, a not-for-profit organization that provides education and information in a collaborative community of healthcare organizations, facilitating efforts to create person-centered care in healing environments. In his role, Jim is responsible for coaching and directing organizations to implement the Planetree Framework of person-centered care. He specializes in complex healthcare system implementation, long-term care environments and other post-acute environments. Jim is a strong advocate for reducing/eliminating biased care and enhancing the skills of professionals in the field of aging. He started in healthcare as a nursing assistant, later attending nursing school and has worked in a variety of settings including high risk acute care, sub-acute and long-term care. He is a co-author of Planetree's Long Term Care Improvement Guide, co-authored and served as content reviewer for Managing the Long-Term Care Facility: Practical Approaches to Providing Quality Care First Edition, (Perley, Editor). Jim will repeat this role for the 2nd Edition in 2020 and add chapters on person-centered care and resident move in. He is a sought-after speaker and educator for topics associated with person-centered care implementation and has created and implemented comprehensive staff, physician and leadership training curricula for Planetree.
The "Resident Experience" Before and During COVID-19 described by Residents
Bob Sherwood, Resident, Shenandoah Valley Westminster Canterbury
Judi Booker, Resident, Shenandoah Valley Westminster Canterbury
Mary Jane Lee, Resident, Shenandoah Valley Westminster Canterbury
Last year, residents of Westminster Canterbury in Winchester, VA initiated exploration of the "resident experience" there. Only residents fully understand this unique and little studied experience. They alone know what it's like to move into a community and live there together with others until the end of their lives. A report of findings was planned to help trustees and employees, who do not live there, do their jobs better. They were looking forward it, but COVID-19 halted the project. This background frames insights the session offers on ways "resident experience" is shifting under pandemic conditions. Future implications are hesitantly suggested.
Living together in community until the end of our lives is a unique and little-studied experience. To search out the Resident Experience, residents at Westminster Canterbury initiated a cross-campus exploration through which the entire community — from trustees to housekeepers – gained insights that are helping to enrich our Resident-Directed Culture. That was before COVID-19 changed life for everyone. Join this session presented by three Independent living residents to hear from their perspective about life in a senior living community before COVID-19 struck and a view from the inside as we have all learned to adapt to the restrictions and challenges faced by this disease.
Bob Sherwood, who during his business career served a major international corporation as area general counsel, business planner and public affairs officer, is a resident at Westminster Canterbury, a CCRC in Winchester VA. Over the past 10 years, he has taken a lead in moving the organization toward resident-directed culture and continues to work for culture change at Westminster Canterbury, involving trustees and staff as well as residents. Bob has shared his work on this journey at several Pioneer Network conferences. He served as the first and only resident member of the Pioneer Network Board of Directors from 2012-17 and currently serves on the Education Committee.
Judi Booker is a resident of Shenandoah Valley Westminster Canterbury (SVWC). Ninety-nine-year-old parents have lived in a private Assisted Living Community for 7 years and Judi supervises their care. She is a retired Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with over 25 years of facilitating individual and group therapy in a Community Services setting. At retirement, Judi was managing two CARF-accredited Community Services outpatient substance abuse treatment programs and was tasked with meeting regulatory and statutory requirements of locality, state, and federal government. She was an active member in a department-wide change-agent team created to change department culture to better serve those with co-occurring mental health and substance abuse disorders.
Mary Jane Lee is a retired Registered Nurse with certifications in Hospice and Palliative Care Nursing and Holistic Nursing. She worked as a nurse and volunteer in hospice care and in a state-of-the-art adult care center with focus on whole person well-being and client-centered care for thirty years. Mary Jane introduced hospice and holistic concepts in caring to health care providers and volunteers. She taught Therapeutic Touch to staff and volunteers for symptom management in hospice, hospital, and adult care settings. Mary Jane recently became a resident at Shenandoah Valley Westminster Canterbury in Winchester, VA and is already volunteering as an observer and note taker for the Conversations re: Resident Experience in the health care and memory support areas. In serving fresh water to residents weekly in these areas, Mary Jane is learning how their lives may be impacted positively with increased awareness to individual needs and desires. She also frequently visits residents in those areas to assist them in doing things that they have difficulty doing by themselves.
With the Right People: How a Statewide Collaborative Created Change
Danielle Watford, Director of Quality and Regulatory Affairs, Maine Health Care Association
Adapting is inevitable and under enough pressure, change happens. The Maine Partnership to Improve Dementia Care is such an example of change drivers. Beginning in early fall of 2018, caregivers from across the state set out to prepare a change package that would assist Maine nursing homes with resources to better care for residents living with dementia, reduce the use of off label anti-psychotic medications and improve the overall care in our communities. This highly adaptive and inherently creative group set out to develop tools but created a much more dynamic and sustainable product in the end. When the right people are brought together in constructive ways, they can create powerful visions and robust strategies. This session will focus on how this Maine partnership developed a change package that was evidence-based and critical to the improvement of our nursing home communities.
Danielle Watford currently serves as the Director of Quality Improvement and Regulatory Affairs for Maine Health Care Association and Vice President for the Maine Alliance for Resident Centered Care, the Maine culture change coalition. She has served as an advocate for Maine elders living in LTC for the past 15 years by participating in the coalition and serving as the nursing home task lead for Maine's quality improvement organization. Danielle has served on several planning boards focused on improvement of long- term care services and supports, including the Maine Council on Aging, Maine Dementia Care Partnership and Maine LTCSS Steering Committee. Danielle holds a master's degree in clinical psychology and industrial/organizational psychology.
One's Mindset Determines If Regulations or Payment Support Person-centered Care
David Gifford, Senior Vice President for Quality and Regulatory Affairs and Chief Medical Officer, American Health Care Association/National Center for Assisted Living
Regulations, payment models and Five-Star measures dominate the nursing home setting. The mindset one brings to the table determines how these federal policies impact the care provided to residents as either driven by a person-centered care mindset or a compliance mindset. This session will explore how to not fall into a compliance mindset.
David Gifford, MD, MPH, is a geriatrician who currently serves as the Senior Vice President for Quality and Regulatory Affairs and Chief Medical Officer at the American Health Care Association/National Center for Assisted Living. He oversees the Quality Department, which assists providers in their quality improvement efforts and works with administration officials on regulations and policies impacting the profession. Dr. Gifford serves on the Boards of the Advancing Excellence Long-term Care Collaborative and the Baldrige Foundation. He also chairs the U.S. Department of Veteran's Affairs Geriatric and Gerontology Advisory Committee, a congressional chartered committee to advise the U.S. Secretary of Veteran's Affairs and Congress on geriatric services for veterans. Dr. Gifford has served on numerous federal expert panels, including the CMS panel to develop the Quality Assurance & Performance Improvement program for nursing homes. He is a former Director of the Rhode Island Department of Health, where he received the National Governor's Distinguished Service Award for State Officials for his management of the H1N1 influenza outbreak. In this role, he revamped the nursing home survey process to promote person-centered care practices. Prior to that, he served as Chief Medical Officer for Quality Partners of Rhode Island, where he directed the CMS national nursing home-based quality improvement effort.
Concurrent Session B
Envisioning the Future: Through the Eyes of Team Members
Moderator: Jennifer Craft-Morgan, Associate Professor, Gerontology Institute at Georgia State University
Jenny Brown, Director of Recreation at Village of Aspen Lake
Vicky Buckhannon, CNA, Fair Haven, Birmingham, AL
Brigitte Marc, LPN, Park Springs, Atlanta, Georgia
Team members working in residential care settings over the past few months have been faced with the need to keep caring, even through unbelievable circumstances. Jennifer Craft-Morgan welcomes four care givers from different settings, leading them in discussion as they tell their stories and reveal lessons learned that will help as we shape the future for team members.
Jennifer Craft Morgan, PhD is an Associate Professor at the Gerontology Institute at Georgia State University in Atlanta, Georgia. Her research focuses on jobs and careers, attempting to understand how policy, population, workplace and individual level factors shape how work is experienced and how work is organized across care settings. She is a national expert on recruitment, training and retention of frontline health care workers highlighting the impact of good jobs and high-quality training. Dr. Morgan has published widely in highly-ranked peer reviewed journals, authored many reports and translational tools, and has presented extensively at a variety of regional and national conferences. She has been principal investigator or co-principal investigator of twelve grant-funded workforce-related research projects. She is currently President of the Southern Gerontological Society and co-chair of the Carework Network.
Jenny Brown has been working in the field of Elder Care since 1995, beginning as a Music Therapist in private practice before moving into the field of Recreation. She received her Bachelor of Music Therapy from the University of Windsor, as well as a diploma in Leadership in Long-Term Care and Retirement Living from Conestoga College. In her work, Jenny supports the Recreation Team and the Village to provide meaningful recreation opportunities and life enrichment for the Neighbours who live at Aspen Lake. She is passionate about "Putting Living First" and enjoys sharing this passion with others through her work as Co-Chair of the Support Advisory Team (a team which acts as "wise counsel" to Schlegel Villages in supporting Culture Change initiatives) and as a member of her village's Village Advisory Team.
When Vicky Buckhannan's grandfather was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, he was admitted into a nursing home in Lineville, Alabama. Vicky set her heart on being the one to take care of him, so she became a CNA. That was 26 years ago, and Vicky has been caring for older adults ever since. Vicky has been on the team at Fair Haven for almost a year and a half. She spends most of her work day caring for residents, but also enjoys occasional duties as the relief person for the Central Supply Director. Vicky is a graduate of Cleburne County High School in Heflin, AL, and attended Jacksonville State University for two years.
Brigitte Marc, LPN, attended nursing school in NTC and then in August, 2015, she came to work at Park Springs in Atlanta, Georgia. If you ask her about her work, she will tell you that she loves being a nurse in long-term care. Caring for the elderly is her branch. When COVID-19 struck this past spring, She and her husband made a pact that she would shelter in place at Park Springs during their "lock-in" and he would stay safely at home.
Engagement Elixir: Enhancing Communication Experiences for People Living with Memory Impairment
Lia Levitt, CEO & Founder, Ain't She Sweet, LLC
Conversational savvy is a learned behavior and for many, a lifelong evolution of ingenuity. Conversing with and truly engaging those living with dementia and memory-related impairment is challenging for senior living community staff, medical professionals, family, and friends. Much of the communications towards those with memory impairment tends to be tactical or focused on the support of activities of daily living. Through multiple levels of disease progression, there are strategies to engage even those who have become non-verbal, in meaningful relationships. The art of asking questions, sharing meaningful stories, and creating sensory experiences is not inherent, it is learned. Practicing these skills and taking a glimpse into a frustrating but important world, will offer a journey towards comfortable communication strategies for engaging, comforting, redirecting, and supporting others. Memory loss does not have to end deep connection, but it does alter ways to sustain it. For those striving to support, start and maintain relationships with those experiencing memory impairment, this session will provide dynamic strategies to connect while continuing to care.
Lia Jill Levitt, M.Phil., M.S., CDP, Founder & CEO of Ain't She Sweet, LLC "grew up" in a nursing home for 19 years alongside her blind grandmother, who lived to age 99. Lia left a successful fifteen-year career in training and leadership development to write her (hopefully one day published) memoir and founded a corresponding company devoted to bringing joy to the lives of elders and those who care for them. She is devoted to immersing herself in the field of dementia research and senior living and earned her Certified Dementia Practitioner Credential in 2019. Lia has earned graduate degrees from the University of Pennsylvania in Organizational Consulting & Executive Coaching and from Manhattanville College in Leadership & Strategic Management. Her undergraduate degree is in Communications with concentration in Human Relations. Lia is a global citizen who has traveled to 60 countries. She volunteers for organizations such as the Alzheimer's Association as a support group leader co-facilitating a support group in Darien, Sandy Hook Promise and a national Virtual Center, where she leads interactive video programs for homebound elders. She is fervently committed to redefining the conversation on aging.
Becoming Community Builders
Jill Vitale-Aussem, President & CEO, The Eden Alternative
Imelda Maurer, Director & Founder, In Service to Our Own
The person-directed care movement has made great strides in promoting individual preferences and autonomy. Taking this concept further requires creating environments where Elders not only make decisions about their own lives but have an opportunity for true influence on the culture and operations of the community. The current model of senior living is one of service and hospitality, turning those receiving services into consumers. In this session, we will explore bringing Elders (and those who support them) back to citizenship and creating communities where healthy norms exist and everyone has accountability to the whole.
For over two decades, Jill Vitale-Aussem has made changing the culture of nursing homes, assisted living communities and retirement communities her life's work as a nursing home administrator, CCRC executive director and vice president of operations. In each role, Jill pushed back against the status quo and drove deep cultural transformation in both for-profit and non-profit organizations. These efforts not only improved the quality of life for the people who lived and worked in her communities but led to significant improvements in occupancy, financial and regulatory outcomes. Jill now serves as President & CEO of The Eden Alternative, an international non-profit dedicated to creating quality of life for elders and their care partners, no matter where they may live. The Eden Alternative has impacted the lives of people in sixteen countries around the world. Jill is the author of Disrupting the Status Quo of Senior Living: A Mindshift and speaks internationally on the topics of culture, leadership and ageism.
Sr. Imelda Maurer has thirty-one years' experience in advocacy and leadership in aging services. She has directed communities at all levels of care. Over the past several years, she has worked directly with Sisters across the country; visited convent settings to learn about retirement programs; consulted with elected leadership teams; and presented at regional and national settings. A retired Licensed Nursing Home Administrator, Sr. Imelda has administered all levels of LTC communities. She has visited convent retirement centers across the country, gaining a general knowledge of programs, attitudes and needs; consulted with leadership teams of various congregations; and has addressed Sisters at regional and national gatherings, Sisters in elected leadership and Sisters living in retirement settings. Her blog, Providence Women, addresses issues of aging, advocacy around aging services issues, standards of care, ageism, aging and spirituality. She has had work published in National Catholic Reporter, including their project, "Global Sisters Report."
Enhancing Person-Centered Care Practice for People Living with Dementia
Tena Alonzo, Director of Education & Research, Beatitudes Campus
Amy Kotterman, Director of Hospitality, United Church Homes
This session will identify and discuss enhanced, person-centered programming for people living with dementia. Methods for engaging all organizational staff in creating adaptations that promote quality person-centered living will be covered. Experts will share specific strategies for integrating enhanced, person-centered care across a senior living organization with multiple, unique sites. Positive outcomes for individuals living with dementia, their families, healthcare staff and organizations will be discussed. A basic method for implementing a next level person-centered care program in other organizations will be shared.
Tena Alonzo currently serves at the Director of Education and Research for Comfort Matters, a dementia care education program founded at the Beatitudes Campus in Phoenix, Arizona. To date, Comfort Matters has educated more than 10,000 health care staff including physicians, social workers, nurses, certified nursing assistants, recreation therapists, environmental and food service professionals across the campus and in 22 countries. Tena has a background in gero-psychology with multiple degrees from Northern Arizona University.
Amy Kotterman RD, LD graduated from The Ohio State University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Medical Dietetics. She is the Director of Hospitality Services for United Church Homes (UCH) where she has been employed for 27 years. Amy provides guidance and assistance to the communities to create a home environment that supports abundant aging and culture change initiatives. Amy is leading the culture change transformation throughout UCH through education and implementation of person-directed initiatives including the Hospitality: I LIVE it program, UCH culture change vocabulary, Comfort Matters dementia education program and oversees resident engagement and satisfaction. In addition, Amy works with the directors of dining services and culinary chefs to enhance the dining experience for the UCH communities.
Tap into Something Deeper: Clinical Art Therapy & Personalized Music Together
Deborah Ferris, Founder & CEO, Thriving4Life
Angel Duncan, Director, Graduate Art Therapy & Counseling Dept/Faculty, Albertus Magnus College
Brian LeBlanc, Board Member & International Alzheimer's Advocate, Thriving4Life
Discover what happens when you bring two life-changing, evidence-based, companion programs together. Clinical art therapy is not an "arts and crafts" program used for distraction purposes; it is a dignifying, fine arts program used for self-expression while stimulating brain activity. Personalized music rates #1 as the only stimulus that activates the entire brain. Our most personal life experiences and memories, intertwined with our music, are "tucked safely away" in the last part of the brain affected by dementia. Together, these programs validate the arts as an effective and innovative approach in promoting health, improved treatment outcomes, wellbeing and quality of life.
Deborah Ferris is the Founder & CEO of Thriving4Life, Inc, a nonprofit organization that helps individuals and those that care for them to thrive and be the best version of themselves. By providing access to a suite of high quality, field-tested, therapeutic, non-pharmacological programs, resources, education, training, services, and support, Thriving4Life makes navigating through options easier and more efficient for health care professionals and at-home family caregivers. Deborah spent six years managing 9 states as the Music & Memory® Southeastern U.S. Regional Director promoting awareness of the therapeutic impact of personalized music for individuals with cognitive, mental, intellectual and physical challenges. Impassioned by her mother's 16-year Alzheimer's journey, Deborah's work has included collaborating with clinical teams, designing and conducting web-based trainings and presentations, designing program foundation and implementation resources, consulting with corporations and state agencies to secure program funding, engaging with health and elder care professionals, community organizations, dementia support entities, and at-home family caregivers. Deborah is also the Managing Owner of Thriving4Life Consulting, LLC providing the required seminar for those pursuing Certified Dementia Practitioner® certification through the National Council of Certified Dementia Practitioners. Deborah is a Certified Montessori Dementia Care Professional licensed through the International Council of Certified Dementia Practitioners.
Angel Duncan is involved in Alzheimer's disease research as a clinician in clinical trials, director of education and therapist to caregivers and people living with early onset and early stage dementia. She provides art therapy training in arts related programming for dementia populations and establishes museum art tours around the country and internationally. Her current affiliations are with the Yale University Art Gallery, Yale Alzheimer's Disease Research Center and Albertus Magnus College in developing an early stage dementia museum program. She consults with the National Alliance in Mental Illness (NAMI), AARP and YMCA chapters throughout the northeast coastal region in brain health initiatives for successful living.
Brian LeBlanc grew up in New Orleans, LA and has lived in the Gulf Coast area since then. He found his niche in the professional world as a Marketing and Public Relations Executive. Diagnosed in October of 2014 with early-onset Alzheimer's Disease and no longer able to work, Brian made a career change by using his voice to spread awareness and education about living with Alzheimer's disease. He now spends his time as a keynote speaker and session presenter at international, national and local conferences, seminars and workshops. He also teaches Crisis Intervention Team Training to law enforcement as to how to recognize individuals living with a dementia-related illness.
As an individual diagnosed with Early Onset Alzheimer's as well as Vascular Dementia, Brian provides a window into the journey of a regular guy, from a regular life who is living with a progressive brain disease. Brian leans on the profound impact that his personalized music playlist has on his life. Not only does it drastically decrease what he calls his "brain fog," it also reduces anxiety when he travels, brings back fond memories and identity, and helps him remain more present and functioning at the highest level possible.
Concurrent Session C
Envisioning the Future: A Global Perspective
Moderator: Benjamin Surmi, Director of People and Culture, Koelsch communities
Sally Hopkins, Executive Director of the Eden Alternative in Australia, New Zealand and Southeast Asia
Josep de Marti, Lawyer and Gerontologist. Founder of Inforesidencias.com., Spain
Cheryl George, Eden Alternative Regional Coordinator for Western Canada, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
Risa Morimoto, Director, Producer, Founder of Modern Aging
Aging is something shared by individuals in every corner of the globe. Benjamin Surmi will moderate a lively discussion where innovators from around the world will share stories of what is happening, promising innovations and explore how we can work together across international lines to move the future for aging forward.
Empowering people to thrive "no matter what disability or cognitive disorder they may live with" is the focus of Benjamin Surmi's work as a social gerontologist. Caregiver, activity director, lifelong learning center director, and home repair coordinator were each roles that shaped his understanding of the unique needs of seniors. He guides the person-centered training for over 2,400 employees in 8 states and is currently implementing an evidence-based approach to care from France called Humanitude. Benjamin coaches 70+ wellness directors who support over 1,500 seniors. His passion is imagining the impossible and building alliances that make it possible.
Risa Morimoto started her career in banking, then entered the world of higher education working at New York University (NYU) as the Associate Director of the Asian/Pacific/American Studies Program and Institute. She then moved on to run a non-profit organization, Asian CineVision and the Asian American International Film Festival. It was during this time that Risa's mother had a stroke. It was a huge wake up call for Risa and she knew if she wanted to become a full-time filmmaker, it was now or never. So, she chose now.
Risa made several documentary films, lucky enough to travel and interview people from all over the world. Her films screened at numerous film festivals and aired on television in over 18 countries. Throughout this time, Risa was a part time caregiver to her mother who developed Parkinson's disease in 2009 and it became increasingly difficult to care for her. Risa felt like she needed a PhD to navigate the healthcare system. This proved to be hugely challenging and Risa often traveled to Japan to look for solutions. She knew their senior population was exploding and they were implementing some innovative ways to address the situation. Modern Aging was born out of Risa's frustration knowing that there had to be a better way to age and care for our elders, and that the current system was not sustainable for future generations. She used her skills as a documentary filmmaker to interview people and share what she was learning. Thus, Modern Aging was created.
Josep de Marti, who holds a Law Graduate with a Master's degree in Social Gerontology, worked for 10 years (1991 to 2000) as a nursing home inspector for the Catalonia Regional Government. In 2000, he set up a web site, Inforesidencias.com, addressed to the Spanish nursing home industry and in 2005 a consultancy and training company, Eai Consultoria. Josep is an associate professor at two Spanish Universities, teaching in post graduate degree programs in the area of Social Gerontology and Nursing Home management. He also directs Dependencia.info, a newsletter about care for elders with 8.000 subscribers.
Dan Levitt is an acclaimed international speaker, elder care leader, writer, and gerontologist, specializing in helping others to create better lives for seniors. Dan's purpose is to teach people how to transform the lives of older adults across the globe. As a popular professional speaker, he has delivered inspiring keynote speeches impacting thousands of people on four continents. Dan doesn't tell people where to go but guides them in the direction of where they need to go. His talks leave the audience with a new mindset on aging needed to thrive in the 21st century.
As the Executive Director of Tabor Village, Dan Levitt shepherds the enhancement of social, spiritual and care needs for more than 300 seniors, inspiring a team of over 400 employees and volunteers with a commitment to continuously improving the quality of life. Dan is an Adjunct Professor in Gerontology at Simon Fraser University an Adjunct Professor, School of Nursing, University of British Columbia and a Sessional Instructor, British Columbia Institute of Technology.
Dan's adventure exploits have taken him from Africa's highest peak Mt. Kilimanjaro to the Caribbean Sea's coral reefs, from canoeing across the Yukon to racing in the six World Marathon Majors.
Sally Hopkins is the Executive Director of the Eden Alternative in Australia, New Zealand and Southeast Asia. As an Eden Regional Coordinator, working with a volunteer Board, Sally is responsible for the strategic direction, operations and growth of the Eden Alternative (through Eden Registry & Training) in three Regions. This includes, and is not limited to financial sustainability, education, marketing. She works with a number of homes, community and disability organizations who are operationalizing the Eden Alternative in their organizations. The strategic direction of her organization, in partnership with other Eden Regions around the globe is to change the face of aging.
Slam the Door on Institution (and COVID by the way…)
Megan Hannan, Executive Leader, Action Pact
LaVrene Norton, Action Pact Founder, Executive Leader
Household organizations are best suited to offer a drastically different living experience than the typical long-term care institution. Typical skilled nursing households have a front door that can literally be closed to all who do not live or work in the household. They have private rooms, and multiple rooms in the living center (often a living room and a formal lounge, a den, a sun porch, family dining room, private back yard) – all can contribute to the continuation of a good life within an intimate group of householders and team members.
The household model, a more self-directed option for residential living, has shown that the elders that they serve don't get as sick, regain skills, and maintain relationships all within the comfort of home as they define it. Households are also ideal for preventing spread of infection and even COVID.
Households also have a fully functioning kitchen and a large pantry that could accommodate a week's food.
Couple all of the physical amenities with the practices of cross-trained consistent staff (including a house nurse), self-led team skills and strong critical thinking skills and wonderfully, these self-sufficient households are surrounded by all the resources they will need close at hand, and yet able to be kept at arms' length!
What can your organization do to move closer to this ideal? Creativity, enthusiasm, upbeat attitude, strong action planning and an empowered resident, staff, family community can make this happen. Get started NOW!
Megan Hannan leads a team of consultants who provide insight and support for transforming institutional culture, especially toward establishing the Household Model. Her expertise focuses on facilitating change through the high involvement of staff, families and residents, and fostering their collaboration in self-led teams dedicated to growing a vibrant life with and for people living with dementia. She has held leadership roles as a mentor with Eden Alternative International and as an executive board member with Pioneer Network. She is called upon to present at numerous state, national and international conferences, including the World Congress on Alzheimer's and the Eden Alternative International Conference. Megan developed PersonFirst®, Action Pact's signature train-the-trainer program, and the workbook and video entitled, "Becoming Who They Were."
A pioneer and champion of the Household Model, LaVrene Norton has been guiding organizations on their culture change journeys since 1984. She is recognized as the nation's foremost organizational change facilitator in long-term care and has taken her expertise to Ireland and Australia as well. In addition to building curriculum for the broad series of Action Pact workshops, intensives and consulting, LaVrene has led the Action Pact team in the development of a deep catalog of culture change and Household Model literature, workbooks and DVDs, most notably In Pursuit of the Sunbeam which she co-authored with Steve Shields. She holds a Masters of Social Work.
Supporting Team Growth: Giving and Receiving Feedback
Anna Ortigara, Former Work Innovations Consultant, PHI
Emily Dieppa, Workforce Innovations Consultant, PHI
Cassandra Martin-Himmons, Workforce Development Specialist, PHI
PHI's Coaching Supervision® lays out skills and values that foster team and individual staff members growth. This session will explore the key coaching skills of giving and receiving feedback. We are called on to be open to understanding the impact of our actions and to give supportive feedback to each other. Feedback can be used for performance improvement or to share the impact of someone's behavior. When we experience a negative impact as the result of someone's behavior, communication becomes challenged. Giving feedback and being open to receiving feedback creates pathways for healthy and reciprocal relationships.
Anna Ortigara has co-created workforce models and person-directed living models over the course of her long-term care career. She served as the VP of Cultural Transformation for Leading Age Illinois and Director of Program Development for THE GREEN HOUSE® Project – National Team. Programs developed include LEAP for the 21st Century long term care workforce (MatherLifeways Center on Aging, Evanston, IL), Person-centered dementia care education and leadership programs (Rush Alzheimer's Disease Center, Chicago), THE GREEN HOUSE® Project Core Team Education (THE GREEN HOUSE® Project- National Team), Coaching Approach to Supervision and workforce recruitment and retention projects (PHI, Bronx, NY). Anna is a gerontological nurse and a Fellow in the Academy of Nursing and served on the Pioneer Network Board for 6 years and as President for two years.
For the past nine years, Emily Dieppa has worked to empower the direct care workforce by creating pathways to economic sustainability and addressing the systemic challenges facing long-term care workers. By creating a home care training center in Detroit, Emily connected incumbent personal care aides to advanced training, higher wages, and an accessible career ladder. She did this work in partnership with diverse stakeholders, including home care agencies, nursing homes, city officials, and labor unions. Emily worked closely with PHI to develop the program's curriculum and train a multi-disciplinary instructor team. As Chief of Staff for a healthcare workforce organization, Emily has extensive experience leading organizational development and culture change during times of transition. Rooted in mission-driven design, she has created and facilitated internal staff development programs and leadership conferences for over 400 healthcare workers to foster both personal and professional growth. Emily has long been a vocal advocate for quality long-term care. Is an advisory board member for the IMPART Alliance with leaders across Michigan to address an ever-growing caregiver shortage and build the necessary infrastructure for a statewide personal care aide training program. She has also worked with Michigan's Olmstead Coalition to draft policy recommendations for the state's Medicaid-funded services.
As one of PHI's Workforce Development Specialists and trainers, Cassandra Martin-Himmons' role is to support the creation of workshops and other initiatives to enhance the professional development of direct care workers and their supervisors. As such, she facilitates and contributes to the design of skill building workshops in addition to facilitating train the trainer workshops to teach PHI signature curricula using adult learner centered teaching methods. She also designs and conducts focus groups with client organizations to inform training design and workforce development interventions. Prior to PHI, Cassandra worked within the fields of healthcare and workforce development. While at Madison Strategies Group, Cassandra was the co-developer of the CareerLift program which helped individuals with limited access to educational and work opportunities maintain employment and advance in their careers. Cassandra's professional interests lie in workplace wellness and in assisting individuals with navigating their way through life's challenges that impact their ability to work. Cassandra, a licensed social worker, earned her MSW degree from Columbia University and has 15 years of experience within the field of social services. She is the former Vice President of Education for the Harlem branch of Toastmasters International and enjoys scrapbooking and traveling in her spare time.
Envisioning the Future of Preference Fulfillment
Karen Eshraghi, Quality Improvement Project Manager, Abramson Center for Jewish Life
Victoria Crumbie, Director of Recreation, Abramson Center for Jewish Life
Alex Heppner, Project Manager, Miami University
In this session, we will share how a deep understanding of resident preferences helped our community respond to the challenge of providing person-centered care during the pandemic and provide a demonstration of Care Preference Assessment of Satisfaction or ComPASS. ComPASS is a new website supporting efforts to track important preference information for your residents/clients with reporting features to support care planning processes. Additionally, we will offer examples of ways our community utilizes these reports for quality improvement processes. Attendees will have free access to all resources discussed during the session.
Karen Eshraghi, MSW, received her Bachelor's in Social Work from Spalding University and her Master's in Social Work from Temple University. In her three-year tenure as project manager for a NIH-study "Assessing the Preferences for Everyday Living in the Nursing Home" (2011-2014), Ms. Eshragi developed expertise in the assessment, training, and measurement of important preferences of nursing home residents. She was a contributing author on multiple publications related to person-centered care and has provided numerous presentations on this topic.
Victoria Crumbie (Tori) is the Director of Recreation for the Abramson Center for Jewish Life, North Wales, PA. She is responsible for the development of the Recreation Department to expand the scope of programming and incorporate therapeutic intent. She supervises the MATCH Tracker Quality Improvement initiative to enhance person-centered care. Tori develops the calendar of activities to include opportunities for residents to fulfill a vast array of preferences at any stage in life. In addition, she maintains the Recreation Department budget lines and provides supervision to the Program Assistants and collegiate interns to establish goals for future professional development. Finally, she plans, organizes, and implements organization-wide special events for residents, family, and staff.
Alex Heppner, BSW, received her Bachelor's in Social Work from Bradley University. Ms. Heppner has experience with care planning process in both long-term care and adult day program settings. She is currently the Project Manager for the PELI-Can Project tasked with assisting Ohio nursing home providers implementing the Preferences for Everyday Living Inventory (PELI). Alex communicates with nursing home providers to identify barriers and facilitators of PELI implementation and manages the project's "helpline" to respond to provider inquiries. She also assists with the development of training videos and tip sheets to aid providers. Additionally, she manages the project's social media accounts and electronic newsletter for dissemination of implementation tips, updates, and related information.
Changing the Culturescape to Optimize Living Well with Dementia
Jan Bays, Physical Therapist, Program Development and Education, Jill's House
Karen Love, Executive Director, Dementia Action Alliance
Paulan Gordon, Advisory Board Member, Dementia Action Alliance
Laurie Scherrer, Advisory Board Member, Dementia Action Alliance
Dementia is one of the most misunderstood conditions in the developed world (2015). Care practices that focus on losses contribute to the erosion of well-being of individuals living with dementia. While person-centered practices are accepted globally as the gold standard, there is considerable imprecision surrounding these practices.
The Dementia Action Alliance (DAA) undertook a multi-year project in partnership with The Eden Alternative to establish a consensus-based conceptual framework and practice guidelines for person/relational-centered support and care.
Jan Bays started her culture change journey by connecting culture change and the rehabilitation community. While Vice President of Clinical Services of Creative Health Solutions (CHS), she became an Eden Associate and led CHS to become a Person Directed Therapy Company. After over 35 years as a clinician and manager in geriatric rehabilitation, Jan turned her efforts to advocacy for people living with dementia. She had the opportunity to partner with her daughter to develop a relationship-based intergenerational community consisting of assisted living with specialty in memory care, a preschool and a day visitor program that employs person-centered practices. Jan is a founding member of Dementia Friendly Bloomington which fosters innovative support for persons living with dementia in that community. She is an active supporter of service learning, which gives students opportunities to develop relationships with elders, at Indiana University. She is an active member of the Dementia Action Alliance, serving as a member of the Board of Directors, Chair of the Optimizing Well Being Workgroup and of the Brain Health Committee.
Karen Love is the Executive Director of the Dementia Action Alliance. She leads persons living with dementia, care partners and professionals in advocacy, education, and support for living well with dementia. Karen is a leader in person-centered practices in dementia care who advocates for treating dementia as a disability and using compensatory strategies to accommodate for changing abilities as a right. She led the DAA project to develop Best Practices for Living Well with Dementia and then created the partnership with The Eden Alternative to create the Raising the Bar Practice Guidelines to direct care in the Assisted Living setting. As a former long-term care (LTC) administrator, Karen has first-hand experience with person-centered care practices; she transformed several LTC communities to inculcating these principles and practices. Karen served as co-investigator on seven research projects (funded by the National Institute on Aging, U.S. Administration on Aging, and the Commonwealth of Virginia's Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementia Research Award) to study and test person-centered practices. She has numerous articles about person-centered dementia care published in peer-reviewed journals and wrote a manual about person-centered practices for the National Association of Boards of Examiners of Long-Term Care Administrators that is used to educate administrators. Since 2011, Karen has championed person- and relational-centered dementia care practices nationally through the Dementia Action Alliance.
Paulan Gordon is living well with Vascular Dementia. She lives resiliency and shares that attitude with others. She is committed and actively involved in creating a world where people can live well with dementia through example, advocacy and mentoring. She is a contributor and co-editor for Raising the Bar: Creating a Better Society in which to Live with Dementia.
Laurie Scherrer is on the Advisory Board and the Board of Directors for the Dementia Action Alliance. She lives well with dementia and shares that message with others. She is committed and actively involved to creating a world where people can live well with dementia through example, advocacy and mentoring. She is a contributor and co-editor for Raising the Bar: Creating a Better Society in which to Live with Dementia.
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Si vous trouvez votre site piraté ou censés être infecté vous pouvez compter sur notre aide pour ce problème pour vous. Ce service inclus une sauvegarde du contenu actuel, nettoyage et restauration de fichiers brisés d'installation d'origine de script ou restaurer à partir d'une copie antérieure.
Si vous avez besoin d'aucune installation de logiciel, thème/template ou installation du plugin même que vous ne souhaitez pas traiter, Nous pouvons faire pour vous. On sauvegarde le site actuel (le cas échéant) et terminez l'installation souhaitée pour vous.
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Our Unlimited service offers are not designed to allow a single user to influence the overall server performance. The Service Provider will make every effort to provide its customers with additional resources whenever possible, including the relocation of a customer's hosting account to a newer, faster server. Cependant, if the resource usage reaches a level where it may influence the overall server performance in a negative way, the Service Provider reserves the right to take corrective actions. Such actions may include disconnection or discontinuance of any and of all offered services, removal or deletion of customers' websites, website content, electronic mail, or termination of a customer's account according to the Service Provider's sole and absolute discretion.
When signing up for an account with the Service Provider, the Customer agrees to pay for the period of one year (365 jours) and abide by our Order Verification Policy. Our Sales Department will strictly scrutinize each account order and carefully processes each payment in order to ensure that no fraudulent user can take advantage of our web hosting system. In cases of PayPal and American Express credit card payments, a 12-month recurring billing cycle will apply for customer convenience. In case that a customer wants to cancel their recurring contract, they can do so from the Recurring Manager section of their Web Hosting Control Panel.
Our backup service is provided as a courtesy to you and therefore, the Service Provider will be in no way held responsible for the files stored in your account. Vous, as a customer, agree to take full responsibility for all the files in your account and to maintain an appropriate backup of the data stored on our servers. We will back up the files located in the /www folder of your account, as well as the databases you have created. Backups are only kept for a period of 7 jours. After this period, a backup cannot be restored.
General Backup: The default available backup disk storage space for each customer is 5 GB. User accounts with content over 5 GB cannot be (partially or entirely) backed up. Additional space for backup purposes is available under our Upgrade section in the Control Panel. We provide backup services only to accounts with disk space usage below the purchased backup quota limit. Par exemple, if the purchased data backup quota amounts to 20 GB, we will back up your files as long as your account's disk usage does not exceed the 20 GB quota limit. As soon as this 20 GB quota limit has been reached - the backup script will no longer back up any of your files.
For newly signed up clients - the services are activated immediately after our Sales Department gets in touch with the customer over the phone to verify the payment details (Ceci est nécessaire en raison de l'activité de fraude élevé diffusion en ligne, and in order to be prevented fraudulent orders). La procédure de vérification de paiement est obligatoire et si nous ne parvenons pas à approuver une transaction au sein de 48 heures de la demande de paiement, the funds will be credited back to the payer and the order will be cancelled.
Pour les clients existants - the services for existing customers, including upgrade services and renewals, are activated immediately after our Sales Department receives the according service payment.
Shared Web Hosting Accounts - all newly-created shared hosting accounts with the Service Provider are valid for 1 année. They can be regularly renewed for another year that is added to the official expiration date of the account. All account upgrades purchased from the Web Hosting Control Panel are valid and are to be functional till the final expiration date of the respective web hosting account.
The Service Provider occasionally runs promotions offering FREE domain names to customers signing up for a new web hosting account. This special offer is valid only with our PROMOTIONAL TLDs. Cependant, in case that the money-back guarantee option is used, the domain name must be paid ($9.95 per year per domain name). The domain name owner will have access to a domain management account, and will be able to transfer the domain name to another registrar.
The hosting service is active for one year (365 jours). After the expiration of that period, the account will be automatically suspended and will remain suspended until the Customer renews it by paying its annual subscription fee. In case that the Customer does not renew his/her hosting account, it will remain BLOCKED. The account data will be kept for two months, after that it will be permanently deleted.
Domain names are valid for the number of years of their registration (domain names can be registered for the period of 1 À 10 années, depending on their TLD - top-level domain name - extension). After an expiration of a domain name several stages follow regarding its renewal.
The RGP period extends the time available for renewing domain names. Cependant, any web site or e-mail services associated with the domain name will stop working and the domains that enter a redemption period may be removed from the zone files (the list of domain names currently in the global DNS).
Après la période de grâce de la rédemption (ou la période de renouvellement – si RGP ne s'applique pas) a passé, nom de domaine(s) enter the so called ERGP (Extended Redemption Grace Period). During the first 120 days of the period in which the domain name is appointed to its ERGP period you are allowed to redeem the domain name and take ownership once again if you pay the fee for redeeming the domain name with all registration fees. When the 120 period lapses and you have not redeemed the domain name, the domain name will be considered deserted and you would have no further rights over the domain name registration.
At that point domain name(s) peut être: fournis à des tierces parties; the Service Provider may choose to auction the domain name(s); the Service Provider may return them in the public registration pool. All of these actions can be carried out at any time and without your consent.
After the redemption period of an expired domain name is finished, comes the Pending Delete Period- une période niveau Registre du jusqu'au 5 jours pendant lesquels il est interdit de renouveler le nom de domaine et il ne peut être enregistrée récemment parce qu'il n'est toujours pas retourné à la piscine publique de noms de domaine.
Wheb introducing any changes to their contact details, customers are obliged to notify the Service Provider in the course of 10 business days after the changes become valid. The introduction of changes should be done online through the customers' Web Hosting Control Panel, not via e-mail. This requirement is also in force for the Service Provider, C'est à dire. customers will be always aware of any contact information changes that the company places within its website. De cette façon, flawless communication between both sides is guaranteed.
Customers will receive a password and account designation upon completing of the registration process of the Service. Customers are responsible for keeping the confidentiality of their passwords and accounts, and are fully responsible for all activities that occur under that password or account. Customers agree to: un) immediately notify the Service Provider about any unauthorized use of their password or account or any other breach of security; b) ensure that they safely exit (log out from) their account at the end of each session. The Service Provider cannot and will not be liable for any loss or damage of account information arising from Customer's failure to comply with this provision.
CPU usage (or usage of the Central Processing Unit(s) of the web server the customer's account is hosted on) - The CPU usage is subject to some regulations. Each hosting account can use up to 10% of the CPU power for no longer than 180 seconds at any given time, and/or the percentage given per 24 hours in the features configuration of the Customer's plan. The Service Provider's web hosting plans include the following CPU quotas (par 24 hours).
E-mails - Users are not allowed to send more than 1500 emails per day/150 emails per hour per hosting account (each email can be sent to a maximum of 50 recipients, as each unique recipient will be counted as one message sent). Users are not allowed to send more than 1500 emails a day using a mailing list (ou 1 email to 1500 subscribers, respectively). Chaque compte de messagerie est en droit de 10 GB of storage space, while all active email accounts under a hosting account must not exceed 40 Go en taille. Only the MediumCorp plan has an email storage quota of 60 GB. Each email account can host up to 200.000 messages stockés.
Disk Space & Trafic - the Service Provider offers generous amounts of disk space and network bandwidth. Customers must not allow other websites or hosting servers to link to files stored in their hosting accounts, et ainsi voler le trafic réseau. In order to escape unjust distribution of the resources, as well as possible sharing of illegal content, Customers are not allowed to use their hosting accounts as a remote storage server only or solely for the purpose of sharing (Nations Unies)images archivées, programmes ou des fichiers audio. Au moins 80% de tous les fichiers et/ou totales mégaoctets utilisés (y compris MP3, WAV, RA, GIF, JPG, ZIP, RAR, mais sans s'y limiter ces types de fichiers) dans chaque compte d'hébergement doit faire partie de l'effectif, site Web actif(s) contenu, C'est à dire. tous les fichiers de contenu doivent avoir des fichiers HTML ou PHP correspondants qui pointent vers eux. Audio, graphiques et/ou les fichiers vidéo doivent être doit être placés sous 25% du web actuel hébergement incontournable et l'utilisation du disque jamais dépasser 50 Go en taille. En outre, ces fichiers multimédias peuvent s'élever à non plus de 50% de l'usage du trafic mensuel total du client. Upon request, chaque client doit être en mesure de prouver qu'un fichier donné est un élément constitutif d'une page réelle et pas seulement stockées sur le serveur au sein 24 heures de la demande. Si le client ne parvient pas à réagir au sein 24 hours after the request and does not remove the file/files in question, or if the apportioned traffic quota continues to be used for such purposes - the Provider reserves the right to suspend the account and/or to remove the aforesaid content from the server. In such cases, refunds are not applicable and the money-back guarantee is no longer valid..
Server content MUST comply with the parameters stated in this TOS and our AUP (Politique d'utilisation acceptable). Web content requirements exclude the publication of illegal content or content considered inappropriate otherwise. If any of the Service Provider's Services are used for the illegal purpose of SPAM or UCE, then they will be terminated instantaneously. The Service Provider expressly bans the use of any of the Service Provider's hardware or software hosted on a Service Provider's server for trying to illegally access another hosted machine or network. For more detailed information regarding all prohibited uses of our server network, please closely review next chapter of these Terms and our AUP (Politique d'utilisation acceptable). If you still have inquiries over the matter, feel free to contact a Service Provider Service representative.
Using If your website has been hacked/ infected with malicious content, we reserve the right to access your hosting account and delete the corrupted files. In this case, there will be no need for your account to be suspended. De cette façon, your website(s) will be brought back to their normal state and you will be able to continue using our service.
As a condition for customer use of the Service Provider's Services, Vous - the Customer, agree that you will not use the Service Provider's Services for any purpose that is unlawful or prohibited by these terms, conditions, and notices, and/or our Acceptable Use Policy (AUP). The Service Provider servers can be used explicitly and only for legal purposes, and each attempt for taking indecent advantage of the servers, inconsistent with the rules, will be immediately counteracted.
Pour annuler un compte, the Customer needs to send an e-mail or support ticket to our Sales Department and provide any authentication credentials requested by the Service Provider. Autres formes de demandes d'annulation ne seront pas acceptés. Toutes les incitations (bonus gratuits, etc.) offerts aux clients inscription volonté être également annulée.
Inscriptions/transfert de nom de domaine, mises à niveau de service et Hébergement plan renouvellements sont considérés comme services non remboursable (Voir ci-dessous) et ne peut pas être annulé ou remboursé après activation à la demande du client. Le client aura la possibilité de transférer son domaine suite à un autre hôte.
Annulations tardives, as well as accounts cancelled by the Service Provider. due to TOS violations (où le client a décidé de ne pas corriger la violation) ne sont pas admissibles pour la 30 jours garantie de remboursement.
Toutes les demandes de crédit de VISA, MasterCard, Les paiements American Express et de la découverte sont traités au sein de 48 heures de la présentation de la restitution à la demande (par courrier électronique ou de billet, comme indiqué plus haut). Les fonds seront crédités sur la carte de crédit/débit du client et affectent le solde de carte de crédit/débit du client conformément aux conditions de l'émetteur de carte de crédit/débit de service.
Toutes les demandes de crédit pour les paiements PayPal sont traités dans les 48 heures de la présentation de la restitution à la demande (par courrier électronique ou de billet, comme indiqué plus haut). Les fonds seront crédités au compte PayPal du client et affectent le solde PayPal du client conformément aux modalités de PayPal de service.
The Service Provider offers a 30-jours satisfait ou remboursé. Si vous n'êtes pas satisfait de nos services d'hébergement, vous pouvez soumettre une demande de remboursement dans un trouble ticket ouvert à partir de votre panneau de contrôle d'hébergement web, ou par courrier électronique envoyé à billing@duoservers.com, et recevoir un remboursement complet de votre plan d'hébergement au sein de 30 jours suivant l'achat du compte. S'il vous plaît, Notez que les enregistrements/transfert de nom de domaine sont non-remboursables services (for more information see chapter 10 of this document).
Services non remboursable: toutes les mises à niveau de service, recharges de portefeuille et de services du renouveau plan achetés depuis le panneau de contrôle Web Hosting; tous les services d'enregistrement ou transfert de domaine 1 an ou plusieurs années achetés à inscription ou sur le panneau de contrôle Web Hosting.
Tous les enregistrements de domaine et les transferts de domaine sont définitives, n'incluez pas une garantie de remboursement et seront assujettis à une taxe qui est calculée sur le prix annuel promotionnel NON réel de TLD l'achat du domaine, multiplié par le nombre d'années d'inscription ou de transfert. Tout montant de remboursement crédité au client conformément à notre garantie de remboursement de 30 jours n'inclut pas le coût des services non remboursable (le cas échéant) qui ont été acquis au moyen d'hébergement web du client plan dès l'inscription (C'est à dire. les clients recevront un remboursement partiel sur la transaction d'origine si il/elle a acheté des services non remboursables dans le compte d'hébergement web). A table containing the annual NON-PROMOTIONAL prices of all domain names offered by the Service Provider is located in section 3 of this legal document.
Les remboursements ne sont pas considérés comme un moyen de remboursement. Any Customer who initiates a credit card chargeback in response to a bill or order placed with the Service Provider will be subject to full investigation.
When signing up for a web hosting account with the Service Provider, le client comprend les conditions expliquées dans notre politique d'utilisation Acceptable (AUP) et le conditions de Service d'hébergement Web (this document). Ainsi, the Service Provider, ainsi que de nos détaillants autorisés (PayPal, WorldPay, 2CheckOut), aura recours à ces documents comme preuve de l'accord du client, surtout dans le cas où un client envoie une demande de rétrofacturation basée sur les points qu'il / ou elle a d'abord accepté, mais cherche maintenant à réfuter.
Si/quand un rapport de refacturation est reçu, the first step of the Service Provider's team will be to try to contact the user. Pendant ce temps, le compte d'utilisateur sera suspendu (afin de protéger notre système d'abus et les activités frauduleuses) et restera suspendu jusqu'à ce que les motifs du rejet de débit ont été clarifiées et décision a été prise pour l'attribution d'action.
Si la facturation interne s'est produite en raison d'un malentendu, une procédure de paiement inversé sera réalisée avec nos détaillants autorisés et le compte sera réactivé.
Si l'utilisateur a envoyé une demande de rétrofacturation basée sur une argumentation sans fondement (à notre propre jugement et ces conditions d'hébergement Web de Service), then a dispute will be started with our authorized retailers in which the Web Hosting Terms of Service (this document) and the Acceptable Use Policy of the Service Provider will serve as proof of the Customer's agreement. Les détaillants puis, prenant en considération toutes les dispositions de ces documents juridiques, will decide whether the Customer has had sufficient grounds for the chargeback or the Service Provider has the right to a reverse payment.
Dans le cas où la rétrofacturation provenance d'un utilisateur frauduleux et aucun paiement inversé la procédure peut être engagée, puis le compte d'hébergement respectif resteront suspendu.
Forward Looking Statements can be recognized by the availability of indicative words such as "believes", "anticipates," "plans," "may," "hopes," "can," "will," "expects," "is designed to," "with the intent," "potential", etc.. Cependant, their availability is not a prerequisite for a forward-looking statement to be treated as such.
In order to file a complaint, please send us an email to complaints@duoservers.com, specifying the nature of the problem you are experiencing. S'il vous plaît, provide us with as many details about your particular case as possible. The more we know about the situation, the better, prompt and adequate our resolution will be.


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DJI Phantom 3 Standard
DJI's new quadcopter makes high quality aerial footage both accessible and affordable
Not yet rated By Ali Jennings 2015-08-05T12:00:00.216Z Cameras and camcorders
What is a hands on review?
1. Introduction and features
2. Performance and early verdict
Early Verdict
If you were thinking about getting the Phantom 3 Pro or Advanced but were put off by the price, then the Phantom 3 Standard should make your mind up once and for all! It's affordable, easy to fly and has a good camera.
Great for those just starting out
Simple design and operation
Easy to fly
Uses Wi-Fi rather than Lightbridge
Lacks the positioning cameras of the Advanced and Pro
DJI Innovations is the company that leads the consumer Multirotor (Drone) market with the successful Phantom range. The Phantom's success comes from its approach, offering a ready built, calibrated and ready to fly craft direct from the box. It was also the first to offer a simple GoPro mount on the base enabling you to film incredible bird's eye footage.
Successive releases have built on this simple design and ease of use and the Phantom has grown hugely in popularity amongst photographers and filmmakers as the go-to craft to capture video and stills, now its major selling point.
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The Standard model joins the latest line-up of Phantom 3 models and features a 2.7K camera capable of capturing both video and stills, live view streaming to a mobile device, intelligent flight controller and over 20 minutes of flight time.
It's designed as a lower-cost alternative to the Phantom 3 Advanced and Phantom 3 Professional and DJI says it should be on sale on August 9th at US$799 (about £512/AU$1,085).
The camera
The Professional and Advanced Phantoms are very similar with the only difference between the two being the camera. However, while the Standard model looks almost identical there are some major differences.
The Phantom 3 Standard's camera can shoot 2.7K video and full HD.
The Standard, as with the rest of the range, comes equipped with a camera mounted on a motorised gimbal. The camera features a 1/2.3-inch, 12 million pixel sensor that is capable of capturing 2.7K video at 30fps, 1080p at 48 fps or 720p at 60fps. The ability to capture 2.7K video puts it slightly ahead of the next model up in one respect, but the Advanced can shoot 1080p at a higher frame rate of 60fps, which will be more appealing to the higher end videographer.
The lens is a fixed f/2.8 with a 94 degree field of view, which is a 20mm equivalent lens in 35mm terms. This lens helps to avoid the fisheye distorted look that is synonymous with cameras of this size and instead gives a pleasing distortion free image.
Camera settings are made via the app.
The camera offers a selection of modes and settings enabling you to shoot both video and stills in a Program or Manual mode. These settings can all be adjusted through the DJI Go app. Adjustments include an ISO range of 100-3200 (video) 100-1600 (photo), electronic shutter speeds of 8s – 1/8000s and a choice of resolution resolution. We'll bring you the full scope of adjustments, both manual and automatic, in the full review.
Differences between Phantom 3 models
The new Standard is quite a different craft to the Professional and Advanced models, despite having many similarities. The style and overall design remains much the same and as with the other two models the spacing of the landing gear has been widened in order to avoid it appearing in your footage. The battery is the same new 4480 mAH 15.2 v LiPo which in our hands on test gave just over 20 minutes of flight. The camera and gimbal also look the same but there is a difference in camera recording sizes and output – like the other models, the camera takes a MicroSD card to store those video and stills files. The difference between this and the other two models visually is subtle but the major differences are in the technology.
Visually the motors are all positioned upright in line with earlier models, rather than the slight tilt that we've seen in the Professional and Advanced Phantoms. This tilt makes a small but noticeable difference to stability so it's a shame not to see it here.
The Phantom 3 Standard's rotors are mounted vertically, where those on the more expensive Advanced and Pro models have a slight tilt for greater stability.
The technology is where the major differences lie, with live view streaming from craft to mobile device using WiFi rather than DJI's lightbridge technology, so connection and streaming isn't at quite as high a quality or as smooth by comparison, but it's by no means bad.
The two positioning cameras under the Pro and Advanced model are gone too, so this means that if you're flying indoors or without GPS then you'll lose the added control and stability that these two cameras offer.
These features are outstanding features even on the Professional and Advanced models, though, so they would have been remarkable on this entry level model.
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Petersburg school uses Minecraft video game in student led program
Posted by Angela Denning | Apr 27, 2017
7th grade computer science students work on their Minecraft project. In the front row from (left-right): Sean Spigelmyre, Latham Johnson, and Evelyn Anderson. Photo/Angela Denning
The video game Minecraft is being used in Petersburg's 7th grade computer science class to teach students basic programming skills. It's a student led program that has high schoolers designing the curriculum. KFSK's Angela Denning reports:
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To the adult eye it might look like these 7th graders are just playing a computer game. They're at their desks hunched over laptops, eyes darting around a virtual world. But this Minecraft is different than what kids play at home. The access is secure. Only the students and teacher can get in. And, there are assignments.
"Everybody here is working on the same world just in different places," says Latham Johnson. "We have different projects we have to do. Like right now, we're going to start working on a mine and we're going to have a mine cart leading to that mine so we can transport stuff back to our house."
That's a house that they build…and a mine that they build.
Minecraft is part of a semester long, exploratory course, which lets the school design the program.
Jon Kludt-Painter is the Technology Director. He teaches Mac Tech in the high school and this class. Here, students learn a little programming and engineering.
"First project is just basic skills and they're showing how to use red stone," Kludt-Painter says. "And creating invertors, and clocks, and so pistons, the mechanics of those things."
I ask him what red stone means and he says we should ask a student.
"Redstone is a property similar to electricity as humans use it," answers Kara Newman.
Her team is in the back of the room. She says they are working to re-establish their settlement to get more privacy from other students.
7th grade students Kara Newman, Leah Kittams, and Sarrisa Miller work on a Minecraft project together. Photo/Angela Denning
"We used to live on the mainland and we've moved to an island on the ocean that's full of more resources because where everyone is living is very drained out," Newman says.
Resources like stone or iron.
"We were running out of iron," Newman says. "So, naturally we're going to have to go elsewhere to find what we need."
Teammate Leah Kittams has been spending her time getting resources for the group.
"Mostly I go into caves," Kittams said. "Some of them, they go down into ravines and that's where you'll find the most resources."
Across the room, Sean Spigelmyre types on his laptop. His team is working on something different. They have spent a ton of resources on a quarry.
"Instead of us spending the time mining for the resources, it does it for us," he says.
I ask him how he figured that out. Did he make something to mine for him or was it something he found in the program?
"You have to make it," he says. "It's really expensive to make it, it costs a lot of diamonds and iron and a lot of resources. But when you make it it's really worth it because it mines for you and that's something that takes a lot of your time in Minecraft."
The curriculum for the course and instructional videos were created by Petersburg high school students. Junior Van Abbott helped put the syllabus together.
"It really helps with creativity and problem solving," Abbott says, "because if something's not working there's nothing to tell them why it's not working. They have to go and figure that out themselves, find the problem and then modify it so it does work."
Abbott also helps maintain the server for the class.
I ask him, "As a junior in high school these days, how often do you use a computer?"
"We use it for everything, basically" he says. "Even math class which is just paper and pencil we use it because our text books are online.
A projector at the front of the classroom shows the students' laptop computer screens and what they're working on. Photo/Angela Denning
Back in the 7th grade classroom, Kludt-Painter sits at the front of the room watching the students work. He's monitoring all the computer screens, which are displayed on an overhead projector.
He says there's a lack of computer science programs throughout the country and skilled graduates.
"And so there's a real strong need," Kludt-Painter said. "Everything now has programming running it. It's another literacy to understand…what's going on in the background."
This computer science course is the last class of the day. But that can be a little tricky. The teacher says they've found some students so engaged that they have to ask them to leave, which is a good problem to have.
Disclosure: Van Abbott is the son of KFSK's general manager, Tom Abbott.
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For Salem Drive PTA Members, Supporting School is a Fulltime Commitment
By new_view_media on May 7, 2019 No Comment
By Anya Bochman
Photos courtesy/Christine Amoresano
The Salem Drive School Parent-Teacher Association (PTA) of Whippany is an organization of parents, teachers, staff members and volunteers who strive to make a positive impact on the school's education while creating a safe and healthy environment for the students to thrive.
Fun Run at Salem Drive
Meeting roughly every month, the PTA is led by President Christine Amoresano, of Whippany. A mother of three, Amoresano works as a senior project manager at a construction company and has been an active member of the PTA for ten years before deciding to run for the role of President.
In her time with the PTA, Amoresano has served as chair for the school's Jaguar Publishing Center and has been coordinator for such school events as Hot Lunch and Fun Day.
All officers of the PTA meet at least five times a year to plan PTA meetings, as well as raise and pursue resolutions for issues that concern the entire Salem Drive School community. The officers also recommend and evaluate PTA programs and activities while soliciting input from the school.
As president, Amoresano corresponds with Salem Drive's parent community via email, and acts as primary liaison with the district principal and superintendent. She likewise oversees all committee chairs and committee businesses, represents the school as a member of the PTA Advisory Committee and participates in the Salem School Safety Committee.
Vice President Michelle Propfe is a middle school science teacher in Morristown and mother of two and is actively involved in several committees and initiatives in her school. She is a co-leader for her daughter's Brownie Troop and was the Room Parent for the girl's first grade class.
"It's nice that we are all very close as officers of the [Salem Drive] PTA," Propfe said. "If something needs to be done, we help each other out."
Propfe's duties include acting as coordinator for "room parents" (a sort of classroom aide) and assuming presidential responsibilities when needed. Of the busy schedule of working, raising children and serving as PTA Vice President, Propfe credits her career as an educator, which allows her more leeway.
"It gives me a little more time, and I try to get as much done as possible once the kids go to bed," Propfe said. "You just have to keep going," she added, laughing.
Treasurer Janine DeMarsico is entrusted with keeping all the accounts for the Salem Drive PTA, writing its reimbursement checks and acting as primary liaison with the bank and accountants.
Recording secretary Nina Stanton is a mother of two children, the youngest of whom is in the second grade. Outside of her PTA responsibilities, Stanton works as a property underwriter and runs the in-town Division 6 Boys team. In her role for the PTA, she records meetings' minutes and chairs a committee.
Corresponding secretary Kim Landers is also a parent and had attended Salem Drive School herself as a child. Landers works full time as a special education teacher; she is also a Brownie Troop Leader, runs the in-town's pre-K soccer division and is a member of the Republican Committee for District 6. Landers writes and keeps track of all official PTA correspondence.
In addition to these roles, the committee chairs of the PTA are responsible for organizing their individual committees
PJ Bingo Night at Salem Drive
and corresponding with volunteers, holding meetings and communicating with Amoresano to publicize events with flyers or sign-up websites. They are also tasked with providing detailed documentation to the board including receipts, spreadsheets for accounting and copies of all contracts and information provided by vendors in a timely manner.
The members of the various committees work at events at the school, such as classroom parties or serving lunch, and often operate "behind the scenes" to facilitate programs by managing membership or working on Jaguar Publishing Center books.
The PTA hosts five different assemblies per year, as well as a number of fun runs. On April 4, Amoresano had just finished supervising the latest Jaguar Fun Run and was pleased with the "huge" turnout that allowed the organization to exceed its fundraising goal of $10,000. Next year, she foresees less fundraising and more focus on educational activities.
"The Fun Run was great," Propfe said. "The kids and teachers really enjoyed themselves."
In addition to the runs and assemblies, the PTA also hosts an annual bingo night, with a general attendance of over 200 people. Children participate in fun activities such as "escape the school," earning the chance to win small prizes.
For one of the past year's assemblies, the PTA was able to secure NASA astronaut Don Thomas to speak to the children about space and scientific exploration. As a mission specialist astronaut for NASA, Thomas has flown on four different space shuttle missions and has spent 44 days in space. During his presentation, Thomas discussed his lifelong journey to become an astronaut, what it was like living and working in space, and shared some of his favorite views of planet Earth taken from space.
"It feels rewarding to help the school out and help my own child out academically," Propfe stated. "The students have met astronauts and authors; as parents, we get to really enrich lives and help our children enjoy school."
Another event in March featured children's book author Audrey Vernick, who is a native of New Jersey. The PTA helped coordinate an essay contest, with the winner getting to eat lunch with Vernick.
"The school assemblies and events are expensive," Amoresano commented. "We fundraise in order to help with things like bringing in outside vendors."
Escape Room at Salem Drive
The PTA is responsible for raising funds towards custom handmade books for each child in the Jaguar Publishing Center. The Center publishes approximately 300 books per year – one book for every student attending Salem Drive School. The process entails a theme for each year, such as cultural heritage; the teachers and PTA members choose from a progression of the students' work on the theme over the course of the school year and bind the selected works in a specially-made book. Making the books is a collaborative process between teachers, the PTA and parent volunteers. The work involved includes ironing, typing, sewing and illustrating for a finished product for each child at the end of the school year.
Additionally, the PTA sponsors all classroom parties, as well as funds and runs a hot lunch program for the school.
Celebrate With Books is a PTA-sponsored initiative that encourages parents to purchase a new hardcover book off the official list of suggested titles and donate it to the library, thereby expanding its collection. Participating parents can then have the opportunity to read the book during a Read-a-Thon in their child's media class.
The organization handles teacher reimbursements by allotting a stipend for out of pocket expenses by teachers, as well as providing needed materials in the classroom.
"In addition to doing things for the kids, we also do stuff for the staff," Amoresano said. "We host one breakfast and one lunch per year, as well as allowing each teacher a stipend to be reimbursed for classroom supplies."
For the fifth grade, the organization fundraises separately, a fact Amoresano ascribes to a desire to make the last year students spend at the elementary school special. The PTA purchases books for the students, as well as throws them a commemorative pool party. The PTA also donates to a scholarship fund for a select student leaving the school.
"Each of these things requires volunteers behind the scenes," Amoresano says of the many endeavors undertaken by the organization. "There are many things to consider, such as coordination with outside vendors."
All the women involved with the association are managing their roles while simultaneously working fulltime or taking care of their households. Amoresano, who in addition to her job is also a Room Parent for her daughter, manages to carve out time to go on vacations, or to concerts to see her favorite singer Bryan Adams.
Asked about the busy schedule required by the organization along with the fulltime jobs held by most of its board members, Amoresano perhaps understates the commitment by saying "there's a lot of balancing and juggling in between."
To spread information about its many activities and fundraisers, the PTA uses its official website, to a limited extent. Other methods of reaching out include a newsletter to keep parents and teachers updated on upcoming events, text message blasts that about half the school's parents are signed up for, and old-fashioned mailed forms.
"The PTA is a major component in communication between the parents and teachers," Amoresano says.
The PTA president cites community support as a major factor in the success of the organization.
"We have had a great outpouring of support this year; parents are very engaged and many have volunteered their
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time," Amoresano said. "People are very willing to help, so that we are able to host all the big events that we do."
"The teachers and principal are also very supportive," she continued. "That really helps in having the parents realize the importance of the PTA."
Propfe explains that she can see the result of her work for the PTA in her own children's progress.
"When my daughter comes home and she is excited about something new she learned, that makes me feel proud," the vice president said. "It's hard work, but ultimately very rewarding."
This year, the Salem Drive PTA is having a "hassle-free" fundraiser online. Donations can be made directly at www.my.cheddarup.com/c/sdsdonation.
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