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Living well: Helping Residents & Families

Product Code: 2040W

Helping residents and their families live as well as possible in long-term care is a challenge in the best of times. The social isolation, visitation restrictions, and other limitations imposed in long-term care because of the COVID-19 pandemic have placed additional burdens on everyone: staff, residents, and their families and loved ones. How can we provide care that helps the residents get the most out of their days, given the continuing limitations and restrictions? Care Providers of Minnesota is pleased to welcome Frank Bennett back for the last session in his four-part online workshop series. In October’s online workshop, we will explore attunement as an approach to helping improve resident and family satisfaction. We will also review the role of culture in addressing resident quality of life.

Learning objectives

Identify an approach to helping improve resident and family satisfaction using existing resources
Explore attunement as a means to address resident quality of life
Describe role of culture in addressing resident quality of life

Presenter

Mr. Frank Bennett
Founder & Program Leader of Living Well/Dying Well

Frank Bennett is the founder and program leader of Living Well/Dying Well and is a senior teaching fellow at the Center for Spirituality & Healing after he spent years of working with individuals and their families who were living with serious and life-threatening illness. As a minister, facilitator, teacher, and chaplain, he provides support, education, and care for the unique emotional, mental, and spiritual challenges and opportunities at the end of life. Frank’s passion is to empower individuals, their providers, and care partners to live well until they die well. He draws on his experience and expertise in teaching, curriculum development, writing, organizational leadership, and development to support his work.

As a non-denominational spiritual care professional, Frank is committed to providing humane care for each person, regardless of their culture or beliefs. Frank earned his Masters of Divinity in 2010 with an emphasis on pastoral care and community-based chaplaincy. Frank’s work as a spiritual care professional has included acute, palliative, and hospice spiritual care in a variety of settings. Frank also has a special focus on spiritual care and support for those living memory loss from Alzheimer’s disease and dementia.