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Provider Information for 'Alzheimer Mediation For Dementia Conflict'
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Karen Rice, LNHA is in private practice in Scottsdale; Alzheimer`s Mediation for Dementia Conflict serves Greater Phoenix to northern Arizona and the satellite is in Kent, OH. Webcast services are options for mediation and dementia care management for distance caregivers. Founder of Alzheimer`s & Family Care Management, Rice has provided research, education, dementia care management and mediation services since 1994. Karen is also Adjunct Faculty for Grand Canyon University, Health Sciences Division of the College of Arts & Sciences. Legal & Medical Ethics, Quality in Health Care and Health Care Administration are among her courses. Karen pioneered targeted dementia care services and first launched to underserved rural populations in northeast Ohio. Continuing needs assessments and facility development projects in the late 90`s identified need for conflict resolution services. The practice responded by becoming specialized in Family Caregiver Mediation and Adult Guardianship Mediation at the Center for Social Gerontology in Ann Arbor, MI in 2000. Biography Karen Rice has a Master`s Degree in Sociology of Health and Family; Master`s Certificates in Gerontology and Long-term Care Administration plus over 2000 mediation and CEU hours. Her focus is quality, culturally competent person-centered care, staff/family conflict, professional education, certification and policy. Karen is licensed in the state of Ohio as a Nursing Home Administrator. She led Alzheimer start-up facilities in Ohio, Michigan and has consulted on various start-up projects. In 2003, she contracted with OhioKePro for The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Service`s Quality of Care Mediation Initiative. Current effort is benchmarking the customer service training for the CMS QIO's. Karen served on the Advisory Boards of SeniorLink of Boston, The Arizona Republic and is Dementia Expert for Carepathways.com. Internationally, Karen works with Canada's Elder Mediation International Network. She contributes to both the caregiving and mediation literatures (on-line at www.mediate.com, www.carepathways.com ). She critiqued ''Key Elements of Dementia Care'' for the National Alzheimer`s Association. For a decade, she was Developer and Chair of the first two national special interest groups on Alzheimer`s Disease Research and Caregiver Stress. Karen`s research won State of Ohio recognition for findings on ethical dilemmas for staff of Alzheimer`s persons. She was co-Principle Investigator of a clinical study on cognitive decline and researcher on several US grant-funded aging studies involving Alzheimer`s. Professional Development.
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Testimonial
Posted by AskKaren on 2011-12-27 '"Karen's holistic approach made all the difference when I faced moving my mother out of her home and into an assisted living facility.
There is a real quality component in her approach and in the results for my mother as well as for me personally. Our partnership helped me feel less anxious; I no longer felt all alone and my confidence increased. I truly feel working with Karen Rice on my pre-planning and placement decisions helped me make the right choice for my mother the first time. Believe me, if you have never done this before, work with Karen Rice -- you will be so glad that you did. She is a wonderful partner to have at such an emotional time like this. Karen taught me so much about what to expect down the road from my mother's disease, about services, what to expect from services, the realities of assisted living residents and residences plus nursing home options. Quality of life and quality dementia care are key components which Karen makes very clear. I taught Karen about my mother's medical issues plus described her personality, lifestyle preferences and so forth. In turn, she used these unique details to identify key components of services and environments which would offer a close fit to what my mother was used to. She helped me to understand how a close fit eases the transition; something I was terribly concerned about. I also toured assisted living facilities with Karen. I had never done this sort of thing before! Touring together helped in many ways. Karen really helped me to better understand how the service fit into my scenerio. And, having Karen along after she'd helped me with developing questions specific to our needs, well, it was just a great comfort. Karen helped me take my first steps inside assisted living facilities. Her presence helped me to get really in touch with my service options and to also get all of my questions to staff asked. If I forgot a question, she would remind me. Karen also made sure I was clear on each answer I received before we left the facility. Working with an impartial party this knowledgable on Alzheimer's, assisted living, nursing homes plus other long-term care service options and about placement really allowed me to make informed choices in best interest and to select the perfect setting for my mother the first time. There is a deep satisfaction all the way around from Karen's partnership approach - the quality is inherent." Debbie Walker, Kent, OH' |
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