Commun ty Matters Clay Center Presbyterian Manor
COMING UP IN COMMUNITY MATTERS:
May 2017
Communication key to loved one’s comfort Shawntelle Shute, MA, CCC/SLP
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You get the picture. As mom and dad start to age, we try to make sure they get everything needed done while they are still able to make their own decisions, because we, as their grown children, so badly want to give our parents what they want. Skip ahead…days, months, years. We never know how long it will be, if ever, that mom and/or dad will start to have what is often deemed as “behaviors.” We get that dreaded phone call from the senior living community, “Mr. Smith, your dad is not letting us give him a bath. He screams at us and tries to hit us. The other residents will not tolerate a resident stinking. We are going to have to figure out some way to get him to agree to a bath or shower.” We think about all of the things we might need to do as our parent’s age, but Communication
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Gilbert named executive director at Clay Center Presbyterian Manor
Christian J. Gilbert has been appointed as the new executive director of Clay Center Presbyterian Manor, returning to Kansas after serving as executive director at a Memory Care center in Oregon. “Currently, I oversee daily operations including census development, ensuring profitability, optimizing resident care, adhering to state and federal compliance, and managing positive employee relations,� said Christian. “I look forward to using these abilities in my home state at Clay Center Presbyterian Manor.� Gilbert has served in a variety of capacities at several senior living communities. He started his career in
Christian graduated from Washburn University with a Bachelor in History and Minor in Gender Studies, and will graduate with a Master’s in Healthcare “Christian has served in nearly every area of senior living, and brings a broad Administration from the University of Cincinnati in 2018. He’s received scope of experience to Clay Center several awards during his career, Presbyterian Manor,� said Bill Taylor, including Commitment to Quality chief operating officer, Presbyterian Bronze Award in 2016 from the Manors of Mid America. “He’s received American Health Care Association, several awards for his effective Highest Customer Satisfaction in 2015 leadership in healthcare, and we look forward to seeing his ideas in action at from Frontline Management, and Best in Class, 2016 from Pinnacle Quality Clay Center Presbyterian Manor.� Insight.
planning and executing activities for residents before becoming a certified nurse aide. From there, he entered the Administrator-In-Training program in the Overland Park area, and has served as an assistant administrator and administrator for a Colorado-based senior living community system.
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one of the things that often isn’t pointed out to us, is what is to follow. Think of the statement, “He’s just set in his ways.” Why, yes he is. And so are you! I ask you to think for a moment about how you take a shower. This is a total secret! No one really knows what we individually do in the shower. Do you wash your hair first? Do you wash your body with a wash cloth or sponge? Do you only shave on Friday? Think about how personal this is. And when we start to age and lose the ability to tell someone how we want something done, we get very frustrated when it isn’t done in the same manner that we have always done it! It is like waking up on
the wrong side of the bed, putting your shirt on inside out and wearing two different shoes on a day that you have a huge meeting and no time to go back home to change! Think about how you take your shower. Think about how “off ” you get if you do something out of sequence. Think about how it might throw you off and make you want to swing at the person who is washing your face with the same wash cloth that your feet were just washed with. In your mind you are “furious!” All you can think is “FIRST FACE, THEN FEET!” Maybe have a conversation with your spouse about how he
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or she takes a shower. Compare how differently you two do things. There are so many more things that are part of being “set in our ways” than having to sit in the same chair and watch the same news in the same slippers every night at 6 p.m. Have a conversation with your family member before he or she gets to the point that communication is no longer effective. Find out what order they take
a shower in, what order they get dressed in, how they like their cereal, and so more. Make it fun, and you’ll be better prepared when the time comes to make sure your loved one is cared for the way they want. Shawntelle is a dementia specialist who is currently contracting with Presbyterian Manor in Clay Center and Salina. Shawntelle does training sessions in many areas for family and staff.
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