Participants should be aware of the following financial/non-financial relationships:
Cynthia E. Baker, EdD, LCSW, MSW, CSW Gerontology: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.
In the next eight years, 30 percent of long term care residents will self-identify as a member of a minoritized group, with the largest increase in nursing home demographics among elderly Hispanic/Latine, Black/African American, and Asian residents. Long term care is experiencing tremendous challenges securing resources to ensure that high quality health, psychological, social, and environmental systems are in place for these diverse patients. Gerodiversity, a holistic, multicultural approach, can improve person-centered care, employee retention, and organizational dynamics.
Learning Objectives:
Discuss Gerodiversity constructs and implications for inclusive resident care and improved staffing happiness and retention.
Identify strategies for providing inclusive personācentered care in the faster changing world of diversity and aging.
Describe how the diversity lens impacts quality of care and person-centered care planning as derived from resident case scenarios related to behavior management issues that may increase staff burnout.
Identify direct care staffing challenges that impact resident care.