For Immediate Release Contact: Kaitlin Konecke, Marketing Manager Phone: 410-337-9585 x181 Email: kkonecke@healthpropress.com A guide for long-term care leaders has the potential to transform your organization Baltimore, MD (February 15, 2018) — Health Professions Press has just released A Long-Term Care Leader’s Guide to High Performance: Doing Better Together by Cathie Brady, David Farrell, and Barbara Frank, authors with a proven track record of success working with nursing homes to develop the systems, staff, and processes to maintain the highest practicable well-being for every … [Read more...]

For Immediate Release Contact: Kaitlin Konecke, Marketing Manager Phone: 410-337-9585 x181 Email: kkonecke@healthpropress.com  Baltimore, MD (October 2017) — Health Professions Press has just published What Living as a Resident Can Teach Long-Term Care Staff: The Power of Empathy to Transform Care. Available in print and e-book format, this book teaches the innovative Through the Looking Glass program, where long-term care staff simulate a diagnosis (such as congestive heart failure or a recent stroke) and live alongside residents in order to build empathy for residents’ … [Read more...]

For Immediate Release Contact: Kaitlin Konecke, Marketing Manager Phone: 410-337-9585 x181 Email: kkonecke@healthpropress.com Baltimore, MD (August, 2016) — Health Professions Press has published their latest book, Bullying Among Older Adults: How to Recognize and Address an Unseen Epidemic. Now available in print and e-book format, this book is the first resource to address the critical issue of bullying among older adults in senior programs and care settings, and provides the knowledge and tools to recognize bullying and develop constructive ways to intervene and prevent … [Read more...]

Congratulations to Americare for winning SEVEN Best of 2016 Awards from SeniorAdvisor.com! Americare partners with HPP to adopt the Best Friends™ Approach in their memory care communities. Americare trains every employee in the Best Friends approach, and uses the Life Story as the foundation for a personalized care plan that's built on the foundations of friendship—respect, empathy, support, trust, and humor. HPP is happy to call Americare our Best Friends, and we congratulate them for their hard work in improving the lives of elders. Full press release below. (PRWEB) APRIL 05, 2016 The … [Read more...]