Masterpiece Living Annual Staff Training Presentation Whats Ahead

Masterpiece Living Annual Staff Training Presentation

What’s Ahead! • What is Masterpiece Living • Exploring Ageism and Community Culture • Masterpiece Living Tools and Resources • How can Masterpiece Living help enhance my role?

What is Masterpiece Living? How do you describe it to residents?

What Is Masterpiece Living? • Successful Aging Initiative • Encourages growth in social engagement, spiritual fulfillment, intellectual challenge and physical health • Opportunity for growth and self-discovery • 70% of Aging is due to lifestyle choices

What Does Successful Aging Mean to You? What is the difference between: “SUCCESSFUL AGING” & “USUAL AGING”?

What is Successful Aging? Up to 70% of the differences between people as they age are due to lifestyle choices!

Discover What’s Possible… The 10 year-long Mac. Arthur Foundation Study on Aging determined that how we age depends more on lifestyle, including where we live, than it does on our genes. Mingle Manage Move

A Total Community Commitment We ALL must believe: Older Adults Can Grow!

How Do You View Older Adults? “We don’t see things as they are. We see things as we are. ” ~ Anais Nin

What’s Possible? Bette Calman, 83 is holding an impressive Peacock Pose. She has been a yoga instructor for over 40 years. “Banana George” is a champion barefoot waterskier and is in the Water-Ski Hall of Fame. He learned to snowboard at age 75. Harry Lieberman picked up a brush at age 80 sold his paintings until he was 102. Marjorie Newlin was an 87 year old grandmother and body builder. She started at age 72 because she couldn’t lift her groceries.

What is Ageism? • Ageism is stereotyping and prejudice against individuals or groups because of their age. • Is there a relationship between what we believe about older people and how we treat them?

What are Some Positive and Negative Stereotypes of Aging? Positive Views Negative Views • Experienced & knowledgeable • Crotchety • Appreciative • Set in ways • Wise • Cheap (frugal to a fault) • Great story tellers • Poor hygiene • Reminds me of my mother/father • Demanding • Stone age racist How do we know what is true and what isn’t?

Would You Ever Tell a Resident… • • • That they’re too old? That they’re only going to get weaker? That they can’t make new friends? That they can’t learn something new? Eating whatever you want doesn’t matter at this point? • That napping all day is good for you?

The Effects of Ageism • What impact could ageism have on how older adults see themselves?

How Can We Reduce Ageism? • Be aware of it when you see it. • Help others become more sensitive ageism. to

Walking the Talk • What do you do everyday that relays the message to residents, “I believe you can grow. ” • What do you do everyday that could relay the message to residents, “You aren’t capable. ” • What about our community culture as a whole. . . What facilitates growth and what facilitates dependence?

Exploring Community Culture Let’s look at the difference between the traditional senior living culture and the Masterpiece Living culture.

What Is The Traditional Culture In Senior Living? • Dedicated to comfort, security/safety and excellent services • A history of “taking care” of residents • Offer activities that “entertain” and fill the day with fun things • Help residents adjust to inevitable decline Paternalism Dependence

Masterpiece Living: Culture Of Growth And Potential • Foundation in research that tells us what’s possible • Empowering older adults to achieve their highest level of independence, regardless of abilities • Maximizing residents’ personal choices • Like a university, we expect growth

Where is Our Community on this Continuum? Dependence Paternalism Empowerment Independence How can we move forward?

How does Masterpiece Living help us to move our culture forward? Let’s explore: • The four components of successful aging • Masterpiece Living tools and resources.

Whole-Person Wellness = SIPS Social Engagement Intellectual Challenge Physical Health Spiritual Fulfillment

Component #1: Social Engagement

Draw a Donut!

Component #2: Intellectual Challenge

Brain Teaser: What Am I? • I am loud or quiet. I am sudden or expected. I am a strong medication. I am a relief in certain situations. I am caused by embarrassment and/or happiness. I am found in many good friendships. I am. . . .

I AM LAUGHTER

Component #3: Physical Health

The American Cancer Society asks if you… • Eat at least 5 servings of fruits and vegetables every day. • Rarely eat processed and red meat like bacon, hot dogs, sausage, steak, ground beef, pork, or lamb. • Rarely add butter, margarine, oil, sour cream or mayonnaise to foods when I'm cooking or at the table. • Rarely (less than twice a week) eat fried foods. • Get at least 30 minutes of moderate to vigorous physical on 5 or more days of the week. • Usually take the stairs instead of waiting for an elevator. • Try to spend most of my free time being active, instead of watching television or sitting at the computer.

Component #4: Spiritual Fulfillment

What is one of your pet peeves? What is the opposite of a pet peeve for you? What makes you happy inside?

Masterpiece Living Toolbox

Lifestyle Inventory: Lifestyle Review

Lifestyle Inventory: Mobility Review and Booster

Give It a Try Test your shoulder flexibility by trying to touch your fingers behind your back. Switch sides. The distance between your fingers is a negative (-) score, and any overlap of your fingers is a positive (+) score.

How Did You Do? Female Right Left 40 -49 1. 25 -. 25 50 -59 . 75 -1. 75 60+ . 50 -1. 75 Male Right Left 40 -49 . 50 - 2. 75 50 -59 - 1. 00 - 3. 75 60+ - 3. 00 - 5. 75

Lifestyle Inventory: Mayo Clinic Health Assessment

Customized Lifestyle Plan: Resident Goal Setting

What’s Available to Help Me with My Wellness? • Mayo Clinic Health Assessment – Login at www. mymasterpieceliving. com • Mayo Clinic Embody Health Website – Fitness for Everybody – Healthy Pregnancy Program – Healthy Weight Program – My Smoke-Free Future – Mayo Clinic Health Monitor – My Stress Solution

Mayo Clinic Embody Health Portal

How to Take Your Health Assessment

Masterpiece Living In Action

Community-Wide Effort • How can we make Masterpiece Living more of a community-wide effort? • What does a community-wide effort look like? – Commitment from management – Participation by all staff – Engagement of residents – Involvement of family

What’s My Roll with Masterpiece Living?

What’s My Role? • Be part of the cultural refinement – Believe in what your residents can achieve – Learn more about successful aging – Lead your co-workers to understand Masterpiece Living, be motivated, and encourage residents – Be creative with your department involvement

What Does This Have to do With Me and My Job? • Create positive daily interactions with residents - You have the power to impact people lives • Support the residents in challenging themselves • Create your own goals for successful aging and wellness

Examples of Staff Engagement • Read (or obtain a copy of) the community calendar regularly and talk with residents about events • Housekeeping or maintenance personnel can leave special invitations for events in resident apartments • Spend a few extra minutes a day in meaningful conversations with residents • Attend one program a week or month if possible • Talk with residents about your own wellness goals and ask about their goals

Worksheet • Since implementing Masterpiece Living, what differences have you noticed in our community? With your fellow staff? With residents? • What is one goal you have for your personal wellness in the coming year? • What is one goal that you have for your job as it relates to Masterpiece Living? • As we look to our next year ahead, what would enhance our community culture?

Wrap Up • What are the main things you’re taking away from this training? • What is one thing you will do differently personally or professionally after today’s training?

Thanks for Participating!