Celebrating Our 10th Anniversary!
ALFAPAC is pleased to welcome you to TPC Tampa Bay for our 10th anniversary! Come join your colleagues in support of ALFAPAC and play a course recognized by Golf World Magazine as the #13 best public golf facility. TPC Tampa Bay has also played host to Champions Tour events, including the Encompass Insurance Pro-Am. As always, Golf Classic attendees will be treated to the following:
Transportation to/from TPC Tampa Bay | Breakfast & Lunch | Range Balls | Round of Golf with Unique Networking Opportunities | Fantastic Prizes | Amenity Package & Gifts
National Parkinson Foundation-funded research has shown that transition into a new care setting poses unique challenges for people living with Parkinson’s disease (PD), particularly when it comes to getting pills on time. The standard rule of “one hour before and after” does not work in PD; the worsening of symptoms can happen quickly, leading to frustrating and sometimes painful “off time.” Learn what your staff needs to know regarding medication management in Parkinson’s to avoid complications in care.
Our population is aging, and with it, the number of people living with Parkinson’s disease (PD). By the year 2030, the population of people with Parkinson’s is expected to double, to more than two million. Because of the diversity of PD symptoms, from the classic mobility impairments to communication challenges, mood and cognition changes, sleep disruption, and pain, there are many care concerns that must be understood and addressed by your staff. In this session, we will discuss common concerns that patients and families living with Parkinson’s have when they move out of their home and into your assisted living care setting.
Why is there more and more capital flowing into the seniors housing and care sector? Who are the investors and what are they looking for? What are the considerations investors make as they allocate capital into this asset type? What are current supply and demand conditions? Are we at peak pricing? This session, featuring Beth Mace, NIC’s Chief Economist, will provide answers to these questions and more. In this session, Ms. Mace will also provide commentary on the property market outlook for the sector in general and discuss what impact rising interest rates and other capital market conditions could have on the sector.
Telemedicine, or the remote delivery of health care using telecommunications technology, has become a “hot topic” in health care, and the market for telehealth solutions and access is growing rapidly. Parkinson’s disease is the second most common neurodegenerative disorder after Alzheimer’s disease and requires close interdisciplinary care and frequent medication adjustments, making it an ideal model for the implementation of remote care. This session will discuss the evolving role of telemedicine in the care of patients with Parkinson’s disease and the impact it will have on the assisted living community.
Recent health care reform has changed the long-term care landscape. Professor Grabowski’s research focuses on the economics of aging with a particular interest in the area of long-term care, including long-term care financing, organization, and delivery of services. He will discuss the issues of illness and health care for assisted living residents, review recent payment and delivery reforms for the chronically ill and consider the implications of these reforms for assisted living communities.
Alzheimer’s disease affects more women than men from a diagnosis standpoint. The Alzheimer’s Association’s 2011 Facts and Figures report shows that 3.4 million of the 5.4 million Americans living with Alzheimer’s are female. Women are also impacted by Alzheimer’s as the primary caregivers. Sixty percent of Alzheimer’s caregivers are women and of those women, 68 percent say they have emotional stress from caregiving. Learn about the many ways Alzheimer’s impacts women today and ways to cope with this increasing challenge.
Managing residents’ cognitive decline is a challenge for caregivers and management that will intensify as individuals live longer and the senior living community of the future positions itself to meet the needs of aging residents. The senior living executive works in all settings to develop ways to decrease incidence and risk of decline, as well as to provide the best possible programming to treat impairment. This workshop will examine new ways of understanding Alzheimer’s disease in the context of aging and present evidence-based treatments to prevent symptomatology and functional impairments so residents can maintain independence, quality of life and contribution to the community.
Senior housing experts and data gurus from the National Investment Center for Seniors Housing & Care will discuss current and forecasted market conditions and dive into which sectors are seeing the strongest demand, new development, and highest rates of construction. They also will address where the seniors housing property sector is in its market cycle, macroeconomic demographic and capital market trends affecting the outlook for seniors housing, investor interest and whether occupancy rates and rent growth are poised for future gains.
Increasing a company’s net operating impact is imperative in today’s business climate. Attendees will have their current paradigms challenged and recalibrated in an hour-long journey that will provide tools, techniques, processes, and the secret sauce to exponentially increasing NOI growth and staving off competition. Attendees will engage in a case study delving into how an ALFA member grew NOI in focus communities by more than 75% in just six months, contributing to company-wide NOI growth greater than 33%.
Numbers are growing. Needs are increasing. Units are being added. Learn from a panel of C-suite memory care leaders on future services in senior living. They will discuss the biggest challenges facing this service area, what developers and operators need to know, what senior living leaders should plan for clinically and operationally, and how to prepare.
Does your social engagement program feel stale and boring? Are your residents doing the same thing every day? Explore how to assess your program, ignite innovation, and make change. Don’t get stuck in a rut. Breathe life back into your programs. Institutionalize innovation. Residents and families will notice.
The Other Talk is designed to help residents get past the emotional barriers that can exist between them and their families before having an open, honest dialogue about the essentials for the rest of life: financing an uncertain future, selecting the best living arrangements, getting the necessary medical care, and taking charge at the end of life. This presentation provides attendees with concepts and techniques to help residents navigate the intricacies of starting the elder care and end-of-life conversations that most residents and their families don’t want to have, including overcoming the feeling of losing control over the things they’ve spent a lifetime building such as a house, car, finances, relationships, self-esteem and self-worth.
Quantifying and understanding the scope of a community’s potential market and competition are important tools for ensuring viability. However, assisted living models have shifted in response to economic conditions, market behaviors, older adults’ desires and other factors. Many markets are experiencing the emergence of smaller memory “board and care” homes that are changing the business landscape, along with increased interest in community-based services and technologies. As a result, data collection, analysis and how markets are quantified are shifting. This session will discuss analyzing and quantifying the competition, identify challenges in segmenting the market for levels of care, and review current methodological approaches to quantifying the depth of the markets.
Learn about life saving technologies from the Project Lifesaver program. PAL Program Coordinator Crystal Gonzalez will review the technology and explain how it can be implemented into a senior living community’s protocol plan for residents who wander due to Alzheimer’s disease or other dementias. Participants will learn how the program can be administered by trained staff onsite or connected through local law enforcement should an elopement occur.
Learn how to convert Internet leads and referrals into new residents through hands-on, skills-building training. Session participants will gain skills such as simple techniques to get Internet leads to engage. They also will practice crafting successful phone and email messages and managing those phone calls that can derail the appointment-setting process. The importance of face-to-face meetings will be discussed along with how to achieve the desired outcome. Participants will learn practical tips for updating community information, creating strong promotional listings, and managing a community’s online reputation.
