In October, Eddy Village Green Cohoes engaged Barbara Speedling of Innovations for Quality Living to help implement an elder enrichment program aimed at improving the quality of life for our elders as well as our colleagues.
The last four years of COVID have had a devastating impact on the ability of staff to function in their unique roles, and the model of care the campus was designed to provide. Speedling is an author, motivational speaker, educator and management consultant at the forefront of person-centered care. She has a degree in healthcare administration and more than 30 years of experience within adult care communities. Her services are funded through a special Northeast Health Foundation fund for elders residing in our Green Houses.
Families, residents and colleagues attended training and shared unanimously positive feedback about what they learned. The program also includes education for families to better understand dementia.
With medical care and technology advances, the world of long-term care is changing, and we must rethink what we consider to be important about living a long life and how those years will look. The Eddy hopes our efforts will help ensure every day is worth living for our elders and reinspire the kind of family-oriented, homelike neighborhood for which our campus is known and specifically designed.
Eddy Senior Living offers Independent Senior Living and Enriched/Enhanced Housing/Assisted Living at five locations throughout Upstate New York in Troy, Slingerlands, Niskayuna, Queensbury and East Greenbush. In addition, three Innovative Memory Care communities for people with memory loss are available in Cohoes, East Greenbush and Queensbury. For more information on all of the services we offer, visit Eddy Senior Living Communities.
