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	<description>Advancing Person-Centered Living</description>
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		<title>Living with Dementia</title>
		<link>http://www.ccal.org/blog/personal-experiences/living-dementia_05-16-2012/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ccal.org/blog/personal-experiences/living-dementia_05-16-2012/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 15:43:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lonp</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Connect With Others]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Personal Experiences]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alzheimers]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[by: Richard Taylor, PhD &#8211; Author, Alzheimers from the Inside Out, Richard&#8217;s experiences and people&#8217;s reactions to his eight years living with symptoms of dementia. In the eyes of many others, sometimes even the eyes of care-partners, I am seen &#8230; <a href="http://www.ccal.org/blog/personal-experiences/living-dementia_05-16-2012/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>An “Administration for Community Living”? Yes, but…</title>
		<link>http://www.ccal.org/blog/featured-expert/administration-community-living_05-10-2012/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 22:30:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Administration for Community Living]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Allen Power MD]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[developmental disabilities]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[disabilities]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eden Alternative]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[HHS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kathleen Sibeliue]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[by: G. Allen Power, MD - Eden Mentor at St. John’s Home in Rochester, NY, and Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Rochester. He is a board certified internist and geriatrician, and is a Fellow of the American &#8230; <a href="http://www.ccal.org/blog/featured-expert/administration-community-living_05-10-2012/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Right to Choose</title>
		<link>http://www.ccal.org/blog/connect-with-others/choose_05-03-2012/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ccal.org/blog/connect-with-others/choose_05-03-2012/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 10:51:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lonp</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Connect With Others]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[disability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dora's Hope]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[human rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joe Stango]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[medicaid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nursing homes]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[by: Joe Stango, Founder, President Dora&#8217;s Hope There is a great debate raging throughout our country today. It is the resurgence of the age old issue regarding a women’s right to choose. Oddly, it is the notion of freedom – &#8230; <a href="http://www.ccal.org/blog/connect-with-others/choose_05-03-2012/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Boomers at the End of Life</title>
		<link>http://www.ccal.org/blog/featured-expert/boomers-life_04-23-2012/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ccal.org/blog/featured-expert/boomers-life_04-23-2012/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2012 18:50:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lonp</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Connect With Others]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Featured Expert]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[advance directive]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[alfa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Assisted Living Federation of America]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[richard grimes]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By Richard P. Grimes, President/CEO of the Assisted Living Federation of America, representing professionally managed senior living communities and the residents and families they serve.  http://www.alfa.org/, There’s much speculation about what boomers will want in amenities and services 15 to &#8230; <a href="http://www.ccal.org/blog/featured-expert/boomers-life_04-23-2012/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Older Americans Month 2012:  Never Too Old to Play!</title>
		<link>http://www.ccal.org/blog/connect-with-others/older-americans-month-2012-play_04-23-2012/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ccal.org/blog/connect-with-others/older-americans-month-2012-play_04-23-2012/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2012 09:16:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lonp</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Connect With Others]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[by Penny Anderson, Sec&#8217;y CCAL May is Older Americans Month, a perfect opportunity to show our appreciation for the older adults in our community. Since 1963, communities across the nation have joined in the annual commemoration of Older Americans Month—a &#8230; <a href="http://www.ccal.org/blog/connect-with-others/older-americans-month-2012-play_04-23-2012/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Trading Patient-centered Care for Person-centered Living</title>
		<link>http://www.ccal.org/blog/connect-with-others/trading-patientcentered-care-personcentered-living_04-06-2012/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ccal.org/blog/connect-with-others/trading-patientcentered-care-personcentered-living_04-06-2012/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2012 10:12:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lonp</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Anthony Cirillo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CCAL]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fast Forward Consulting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hospital Impact]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PCL]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[person-centered living]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[by: Anthony Cirillo, FACHE, ABC, is president of Fast Forward Consulting, written for Hospital Impact, There is a high likelihood that hospital utilization will decline precipitously over the next five to ten years.  Because of that, as a recent presentation &#8230; <a href="http://www.ccal.org/blog/connect-with-others/trading-patientcentered-care-personcentered-living_04-06-2012/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>A PRESCRIPTIVE PARTNERSHIP FOR IMPROVED HEALTHCARE ENVIRONMENTS: The Center for Health Design’s Pebble Project</title>
		<link>http://www.ccal.org/blog/featured-expert/prescriptive-partnership-improved-healthcare-environments-center-health-designs-pebble-project_03-30-2012/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ccal.org/blog/featured-expert/prescriptive-partnership-improved-healthcare-environments-center-health-designs-pebble-project_03-30-2012/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2012 14:32:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lonp</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Featured Expert]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Center for Health Design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CHD]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Debra Levin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the Pebble Project]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[by: Debra Levin, President &#38; CEO The Center for Health Design (CHD) is a nonprofit research, education and advocacy organization of forward-thinking healthcare, elder care, architectural, design and construction professionals and product manufacturers leading the quest to improve the quality &#8230; <a href="http://www.ccal.org/blog/featured-expert/prescriptive-partnership-improved-healthcare-environments-center-health-designs-pebble-project_03-30-2012/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Strangers in Our Own Body</title>
		<link>http://www.ccal.org/blog/connect-with-others/strangers-body_03-30-2012/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ccal.org/blog/connect-with-others/strangers-body_03-30-2012/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2012 10:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lonp</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Connect With Others]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lon Pinkowitz]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mobility]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[retirement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[transportation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[by: Lon Pinkowitz, EVP FuturAge Consultants, Advisor CCAL Cataclysmic events often cast us into a parallel universe, often leaving us strangers in our own land.  Given the stark realities of war, tragic loss, famine and debilitating disease, perhaps it is &#8230; <a href="http://www.ccal.org/blog/connect-with-others/strangers-body_03-30-2012/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>There&#8217;s an Art to Getting Older</title>
		<link>http://www.ccal.org/blog/connect-with-others/art-older_03-25-2012/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ccal.org/blog/connect-with-others/art-older_03-25-2012/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Mar 2012 16:38:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lonp</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Connect With Others]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Beth Baker]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[senior art]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[by: Beth Baker, freelance writer and the author of &#8220;Old Age in a New Age: The Promise of Transformative Nursing Homes&#8221; (Vanderbilt, 2007). In the Greenbelt Community Center, 25 elders sit in a circle, watching professional storyteller Candace Wolf. She &#8230; <a href="http://www.ccal.org/blog/connect-with-others/art-older_03-25-2012/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Medication and the Elderly: Russian Roulette with Pills</title>
		<link>http://www.ccal.org/blog/personal-experiences/medication-elderly-russian-roulette-pills_03-15-2012/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ccal.org/blog/personal-experiences/medication-elderly-russian-roulette-pills_03-15-2012/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Mar 2012 01:15:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lonp</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[medication errors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[medication management]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By Lon Pinkowitz, EVP FuturAge Consultants, Advisor CCAL Medication errors are costly and often life-threatening.  More than one third of med errors in the US involve patients over 65 for myriad reasons beyond the easy leap to cognitive impairment.  Given &#8230; <a href="http://www.ccal.org/blog/personal-experiences/medication-elderly-russian-roulette-pills_03-15-2012/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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