AMDA Foundation - Vol XL, Oct `09

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Vol XL, Oct `09

AMDA Foundation/Evercare® Awards Touch Lives Every Day

Vol XL, Oct '09

People who win awards often say what a difference the honor makes. But at Potomac Valley Nursing and Wellness Center in Rockville, MD, you can actually see how an award makes a difference. A recipient of the 2009 AMDA Foundation/Evercare® Award, Potomac Valley used its $10,000 prize to build a tranquility room for residents.

QI, Futures Deadlines Approach

Vol XL, Oct '09

The AMDA Foundation is still accepting applications for its popular AMDA Foundation/Pfizer Quality Improvement Awards and AMDA Foundation Futures Program, but the deadlines are approaching quickly so act now.

Caring Canines Calendar Planned for 2010 Debut

Vol XL, Oct '09

Karl Steinberg, MD, CMD, brings more than medical care to his residents every day. He also brings love and smiles in the form of his two dogs, Tessa and Sophie. “The warm, fuzzy, unconditional love really goes a long way and connects even with people who are quite demented,” he says. He adds, “I love that I get to share this with my patients.”

Raising the Wall of Caring…Virtually

Vol XL, Oct '09

As the Foundation pursues its vision of advancing high quality, innovative practices, and studies through the long term care continuum, it is also focusing on enhancing public awareness of the care, compassion, and dedication that practitioners in this setting live and breathe every day. With that goal in mind, the Foundation has created a new Web site devoted specifically to tributes of respect, thanks, inspiration, and appreciation.

Foundation Seeks Books that Inspire

Vol XL, Oct '09

A new feature at Long Term Care Medicine—2010: Golden Opportunities, AMDA’s annual symposium, in Long Beach, CA, will be a silent auction featuring autographed books written by long term care leaders, aging and geriatrics experts, and people who have been moved by their family experiences to share their stories.

Success is Tweet

Vol XL, Oct '09

Twitter is among the most popular and widely used social networking sites on the Internet today. With 8 million users and growing, it enables people to “follow” individuals and organizations of interest to them and share information through brief posts with comments and links. Recently, AMDA became one of the top 20 Twitter feed recommendations for long term care. Now the AMDA Foundation is on Twitter and quickly gaining a following of people interested in long term care and aging research.

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