Detailed case studies on senior living activities.

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The Big Book of Senior Living Activities

Jillian Thomas, CDP
Debbie R. Bera, ADC

The Big Book of Senior Living Activities features over 100 activities facilities can use to offer a welcoming environment and ensure an engaged, social community. Authors Jillian Thomas, CDP, and Debbie R. Bera, ADC, provide strategies to ensure a sustainable, organic, and successful resident activities program. Staff will gain the knowledge to successfully manage activities while gaining leadership, employee, and resident buy-in.

This book has everything you need to run a successful senior living activities program, including:

$150

  • Strategies to adapt and modify activities to individual resident needs, including Alzheimer’s and dementia patients, younger residents, residents with communication limitations, and bariatric residents
  • Detailed case studies on senior living activities
  • Tips for how to gain resident and staff buy-in

About the Authors

Jillian Thomas, CDP, is director of assisted living operations for Covenant Retirement Communities (CRC). In this position, she is responsible for the coordination and oversight of CRC’s assisted living and memory care programs within its 13 retirement communities nationwide. Thomas has more than 10 years of healthcare and management experience in the senior housing industry. She began her career as a certified nursing assistant and in 2005 became executive director for an 80-bed assisted living and memory care community in northern Illinois.

Debbie R. Bera, ADC, is the activity director at Portage County Health Care Center in Stevens Point, WI. She has over 30 years of experience in long-term care, including as a nursing assistant, activity assistant, and activity director. She holds Basic and Advanced Supervisory Certificates, and a Dementia Care Specialist certificate. She is a member of several healthcare associations based in the State of Wisconsin, and is president of the Wisconsin Representatives of Activity Professionals.

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