Upcoming senior living events and webinars

Dementia inclusion cannot live only in memory care. People living with cognitive change are part of the full community: independent living, assisted living, skilled nursing, dining rooms, hallways, wellness programs, family life, spiritual life, and everyday routines.

Featuring Kirsten Jacobs, MSW, from LeadingAge and Teffie Landmann, COTA/L, from Landis Communities, this session should help the audience see dementia inclusion as a community-wide movement, not a department, neighborhood, or checklist. The goal is not to dismiss safety. The goal is to ask whether safety is helping people live fully, or whether life has quietly been reduced to safety. 

Learning objectives:

1. What dementia inclusion means in whole-person wellness.
2. How interdisciplinary teams can notice isolation, disengagement, and changing needs earlier.
3. What operational practices make communities more inclusive and supportive.

Speakers: 

• Kirsten Jacobs, MSW, VP, Shared Learning Initiatives, LeadingAge

• Teffie Landmann, COTA/L, Director of Dementia-Friendly Experience, Landis Communities

Attendees can earn up to 1 free CEU.

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Memory support design is often judged by how beautiful, modern, or hospitality-forward a space feels. But beauty alone does not create purpose, autonomy, connection, or meaningful engagement.

This session explores how memory support environments can move from passive décor to active engagement tools. Michael Zywicki and Jennifer Boonstra will share how Anthem Memory Care thinks about designing spaces that support resident identity, staff workflows, family confidence, and daily life, not just the tour experience.

Learning objectives:

1. Explain why memory support environments must go beyond aesthetics to support autonomy, identity, emotional safety, engagement, and daily quality of life.

2. Identify common design and operational mistakes that occur when memory support expertise, staff workflows, and engagement-readiness are not built into the planning process.

3. Apply practical strategies for aligning stakeholders including operations, sales, marketing, ownership, design partners, and frontline teams around resident-centered, engagement-ready memory support environments.

Speakers: 

• Jennifer Boonstra, Director of Resident Experience, Anthem Memory Care

• Michael Zywicki, VP of Programs and Engagement, Anthem Memory Care

Attendees can earn up to 1 free CEU.

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This session connects the dots between turnover and staffing models in memory care. When engagement is under-resourced or pushed onto already stretched nursing teams, burnout follows—and residents feel it.

Led by Amber Dahle and Traci Taylor-Roberts from Harmony Senior Services, we’ll explore how to redesign staffing around resident needs, not legacy structures; elevating life enrichment as a core function, clarifying roles across the interdisciplinary team, and making the case for investment using data and outcomes.

Attendees will walk away with practical strategies to reduce turnover, improve staff experience, and build communities where both residents and teams can truly thrive. 

Speakers: 

• Amber Dahle, Vice President of Memory Care and Life Engagement, Harmony Senior Services

• Traci Taylor-Roberts, CEO, Harmony Senior Services 

Attendees can earn up to 1 free CEU.

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