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Capturing Essence for Care: Storytelling that Promotes Personhood in Healthcare
Capturing Essence for Care: Storytelling That Promotes Personhood in Healthcare Settings
Feeling rushed through patient interactions? Struggling to see the person behind the diagnosis?
Transform your senior care relationships in just minutes with evidence-based storytelling strategies that honour personhood in healthcare settings.
Listen for practical tools to:
- Open deeper conversations with seniors, even with limited time.
- Access life story approaches that reduce caregiver burnout.
- Hear real conversations with people with lived experience including persons living with dementia.
- Implement person-centred care that improves outcomes through meaningful connections.
Host Lisa brings together personal historians, digital storytellers, healthcare practitioners, and seniors themselves. Each episode delivers actionable insights for busy care teams seeking to capture essence through storytelling, writing, visual methods and more.
Perfect for: Healthcare providers, long term care staff, nursing home workers, home health aides, personal support workers, memory care teams, geriatric nurses, social workers, recreation, life enrichment and activity staff, family caregivers, and anyone passionate about promoting personhood through older adults' stories.
Join healthcare workers already transforming their practice. Start honouring the whole person behind every patient chart—follow today and discover how small conversations create profound care connections.
Capturing Essence for Care: Storytelling that Promotes Personhood in Healthcare
6. Why Baby Boomers Aren't Preparing for Aging (And How Person-Centred Care Can Help)
The oldest Baby Boomers will turn 80 in just four years, yet most aren't preparing for aging. Why do we avoid these crucial conversations?
In this episode, I explore the gap between our aging reality and our readiness, drawing from research showing Baby Boomers' underestimated impact on society and healthcare. We'll discuss how stigma prevents preparation, the cost of not having these conversations, and why person-centred care approaches can help us feel more at ease with aging.
You'll learn:
- Why Baby Boomers aren't preparing for their care needs
- How person-centred conversations can break through aging stigma
- The importance of sharing what matters to you before you need care
- Tools to start meaningful conversations about aging and personhood
Perfect for healthcare providers, families, and anyone wanting to approach aging with intention and dignity.
Resources mentioned:
- Boomers' Readiness For Aging (Ontario Long Term Care Association)
- Person-Centred Care Guideline (Cancer Care Ontario)
- Capturing Essence digital story
- Conversation Q Cards and Personhood Template (Etsy Canada)
What is Person-Centred care and why is it important to understand? Join me as I break down what this means and why it's so important to have meaningful conversations with the ones we love.
Links and resources mentioned:
- Boomers' Readiness For Aging (Ontario Long Term Care Association)
- Person-Centred Care Guideline (Cancer Care Ontario)
- See my own digital story called: Capturing Essence
- Conversation Q Cards on Etsy Canada
- Personhood Template on Etsy Canada
Thank you for listening!
Do you have a question or a topic related to "capturing essence for care" that you would like discussed on the podcast? Send Lisa an email: awestruckaspirations@gmail.com
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Intro and outro music with thanks: Upbeat and Sweet No Strings by Musictown
