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Friday, September 28, 2012
Thursday, September 27, 2012
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Tuesday, September 25, 2012
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Team Spiritual Care: Be Spontaneous!
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| Sister Kateri Theriault Mission Integration |
Personal, spontaneous prayer helps you develop honesty with God. It enables you to let off steam as well as praise God. The secret is to be yourself. God knows you, and you cannot shock him.
— from Catholic [or Not] and Confident
Virtual Team Memory Pillars: Navigating as a Learning and Relearning Strategy.
The team recently explored research that found that you don’t have to be the driver to experience the benefits of driving and route orientation. The 2012 American Psychological Association reports research that indicates that “active navigation is more relevant as a learning strategy than maneuvering the vehicle.” So try involving your residents with the navigation process to enhance orientation and reduce the behaviors associated with confusion. This may be beneficial on outings and during movement from one location to another within the facility. Remember from previous research, outings were instrumental in improving behaviors and long-term memory retrieval.
Virtual Team Leader Support: Update!
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Acts of Everyday Wellness at St. Leonard
Physical Wellness:
Low noise and vibration exposure
Rest periods for impact stress and soft-tissue compression
Properly fitting gloves and safety equipment
Increase use of indoor walking paths during breaks
Environmental Wellness:
Options to use alternative lighting for offices and work areas
Comfortable working temperatures
Calm and equitable leadership decision-making
Nutritional Wellness:
Increased healthy food options for employees during meals
Increased healthy options in vending services
Increased healthy options in the mini mart
Increased healthy alternatives during carry ins
Intellectual Wellness:
Continued in-services on relevant topics
Increased tuition-reimbursement usage for continuing education
Increased use of wellness information pamphlets
Emotional Wellness:
Varied work assignments to decrease boredom
Shared supervisory responsibility
More employee control over work assignments
Social Wellness:
Vital Life Community Teams report stable programs and attendance
Increased communication and camaraderie
Social clicks are gaining new members
Spiritual Wellness:
Increased reflection and meditation in quiet areas noted
Increased sharing of seasonal plans that support beliefs and values
Increased effort to find work life balance
Occupational Wellness:
Increased desire to add skills and competencies
Increased response to feedback from rounding reports
Increased watchfulness of the StuderGroup initiatives especially concerning completion of rounding issues.
Virtual Team Leader Support please feel free to add your observations concerning acts of everyday wellness and we will circulate our findings.
Thanks, Debra
Monday, September 24, 2012
Team It's Great in Dayton: Carillon Historical Park!
On Saturday September 29, Carillon Historical Park will open its doors free of charge along with over 1,400 other participating venues for the eighth annual Museum Day Live! This immensely successful program, in which Carillon Historical Park will emulate the free admission policy of the Smithsonian Institution's Washington, D.C.-based facilities, encourages learning and the spread of knowledge nationwide. Museum Day Live! fulfills Smithsonian Media's mission to make cultural education accessible to everyone. For one day only, Carillon Historical Park will grant free access to visitors who download a ticket from Museum Day Live!
Virtual Team Parkinson's Research Update! Rapid Eye Movement Indicator
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| Dr. Jack Harless Team Captain |
We have 15 members as of today. This week we looked at a new methodology for potentially screening individuals who are at risk for developing PD. Data from preliminary research showed that by watching participants simply watch TV & identifying specific eye movements they concluded, “with eye movement data from 108 subjects, the team was able to identify older adults with Parkinson's Disease with 89.6 percent accuracy.” Further testing is needed, but the ramifications of this are tremendous as this is an extremely cost effective screening tool.
Virtual Team Brain Storm: Update!
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| Kelly Lance Team Captain |
Welcome to our newest member: Paula Harrison! Paula is one of our wonderful Franciscan Center volunteers! This week, I have a few Rebus brain teasers. A rebus uses words or letters in interesting orientations to represent common phrases. Good luck! The answers are below.
1. What phrase is shown in the figure below?
S-n-o-w
2. Can you decipher this:
issues
issues
issues
issues
issues
issues
issues
issues
issues
issues
Hint: It’s something you wear.
Have a great week,
Kelly
Answer
1. Dashing through the snow.
2. Tennis shoes
Sunday, September 23, 2012
Saturday, September 22, 2012
Team Sinclair Community College for Lifelong Learning
During a recent stakeholder's meeting, site coordinators reviewed registration processes. Sinclair College for Lifelong Learning and St. Leonard provide many learning and social engagement opportunities for our community.
Friday, September 21, 2012
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Team Potter's Welcome Back Celebration!
A Surprise Welcome Back after Surgery, by Team Assisted Living !
Sylvia Clasen CFO of the Year!
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| Sylvia Clasen CFO of the Year! |
Today we had the honor of seeing our very own Sylvia Clasen selected as the 2012 Nonprofit CFO of the Year Award at a luncheon sponsored by the Dayton Business Journal and Brixey Meyer. She was selected from a pool of candidates from the nine county area served by the DBJ and from a panel of independent judges. The award is based on five criteria-1. nominee's career accomplishments, 2. contributions to a company's growth and success during the last year, 3. commitment to ethics, 4. fiscal integrity and accountability, as well as 5. community involvement. There were 3 finalists and we were proud and elated to see Sylvia announced the first place winner. Congratulations Sylvia!!! ~Submitted by Tim Dressman
Wednesday, September 19, 2012
Team Dayton Metro Lifelong Library: Caregivers
We also have resources about grandparenting, whether you are raising your grandchild or just looking for ways to spend time together. There are so many fun and kid-friendly activities to take part in around Montgomery County. Take a look at a few that we suggest including story times and other children's programs at your local library branch.
Dayton Metro Lifelong Library
55+ Worker No. 9: Negotiating Your Salary
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Salaries can be negotiable if you do your homework. For example, find out the salary ranges of other organizations in the industry so that you can decide if this fits your budget and lifestyle. Take stock of your skills and competencies, and compare them to the job description or human resource advertisement or job post. Reflect on your experience, and gather the artifacts that have supported your lifelong employment, such as previous performance reviews, letters of recommendations, and awards. Consider developing a portfolio and a professional resume. Probably most important, look for those intangibles to offset or justify a lower salary range such as the mission of the organization, the values, the work environment, the wellness programming, the social networks, and the learning and development opportunities. In addition, employment that has give-back potential to allow the expression of a lifetime of gratitude across generations can be very rewarding.
Monday, September 17, 2012
Team Events: The Franciscan Center Health and Wellness Fair!
The Franciscan Center
Presents
The St. Leonard Health and Wellness Fair
Thursday, October 18th, 2012
11:00 am – 7:00 pm
Come join us for a day of information, fun, and wellness! The fair consists of various booths and demonstrations with vendors spanning across the Vital Life wellness spectrum! Vendors present at the fair include, Wright State Nursing Students, ALLmobility, Functional Pathways, Hospice, The Foundation, Miami Valley Pet Therapy, Centerville Library, Sinclair Life Long Learning, The Franciscan Center, The Franciscan Center Day Spa, and many others. Tours will be available of The St. Leonard Chapel, St. Leonard’s Campus, and of The Franciscan Center. Free massages will be offered during the hours of 12:00 pm- 2:00 pm and 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm. For questions, please contact Anna-Bridgette Shorten at 937-436-6423 or at shortena@stleonard.net.
Hope to see you there!
Team Houck: Grandma and Evan's First Birthday!
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Social and emotional wellness from just one hug!
Happy Birthday Evan!
Team Fit-for-Driving No. 18: Autumn Driving
Autumn driving means that drivers will come into contact with blowing leaves, wet leaves, and even piles of leaves at the side of the road. According to experts, a single layer of leaves on the pavement can cause dangerous driving conditions because they may hide potholes or other dangers, and they may be slippery as well. Preparing for autumn driving and these hazardous driving situations will require drivers to check their tires, brakes, and wiper blades for safety.
Team Stewart head for Coldwater MI for Pizza!
Team Stewart takes time to break away from everything to go flying on a beautiful Sunday afternoon!
Friday, September 14, 2012
Grandparents Program! Making Things Together!
A local day care program surrounds our resident's with happiness and joy!
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Washington-Centerville Park District History Program
The history of the green, gray, and flat hats!
Team Fitness Gurus No. 31: West Nile Virus
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Outdoor sports and long walks require being observant of weather patterns and neighborhood safety, but it also requires being mindful about insects such as mosquitoes. For example the CDC cautions about outdoor activity and the dangers of the West Nile Virus with this slogan:
Love Sports! Afternoon games? Whether you’re out there watching or
playing, make mosquito repellent part of your uniform (CDC, 2012).
Wednesday, September 12, 2012
Team It's Great in Dayton: Charlie Campbell's Update
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These are her latest strategy for engaging with the environment's most precious and mutable resource, water. She'll be engaged in working on ice books and more during a residency at the University of Dayton September 10-14.
Team University of Dayton Engineering & Safety Lab No. 16: Measuring Balance!
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When a test subject steps on the plate, the load cells measure vertical force and the movement of the subject’s center of pressure (kind of like your center of gravity). Generally, we conduct tests that last 30 to 90 seconds.
This gives us objective and accurate measurements of medial-lateral (left-right) sway and anterior-posterior (back and forth) sway. This data goes directly to a computer program that graphs the data. The data can be represented a few ways, and the picture to the right shows a common representation of sway.
If the subject had absolutely no sway, there would just be a red dot in the center of the graph. However, everyone has some kind of circle or ellipse. In other words, no human being is perfectly balanced. In fact, having just Yellow circle represents the body’s center of pressure (COP), and red lines show the path that the COP took as the subject stood still. She swayed about 1/2” in each direction
Virtual Team Leader Support: Recognizes 38 Leaders!
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Virtual Team Leader Support recognizes 38 wellness leaders including staff, volunteers, and community members.
Team Spiritual Care: Annual Blessing of Pets
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St. Francis Day is Thursday, October 4th. St. Francis of Assisi is the Founder of the all Franciscan Congregations of Religious Men and Women who follow the Rule of St. Francis of Assisi Sylvania , Ohio are part of that tradition as are the Franciscan Friars of St. John the Baptist Cincinnati Province
Tuesday, September 11, 2012
Team Watchdogs: Don's Birthday!
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Team Watchdogs take time to celebrate Don's birthday, who is the supervisor of security!
Team Parkinson's Research: Quality of Life
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| Jack Harless Team captain |
We have 15 members & going strong. This week we looked at a Parkinson’s blog that was full of useful information, http://parkinsonsfocustoday.blogspot.com/2011/01/parkinsons-updates-odds-ends-beginnings.html. We highlighted a paragraph that, I feel, is particularly helpful to us @ St. Leonard. “People often ask what is the best medicine for Parkinson's disease and I must say that there is no best answer, what is best is what works to relieve your symptoms and will allow you to have the best quality of life possible. For most people, one medication, one treatment is not going to be enough. We still encourage everyone explore dietary adjustments; nutritional supplements of good quality; physical (exercise), speech, massage, occupational, music and dance therapy. Never forget the power of true laughter to feel better.”
Virtual Team Memory Pillars: Culture and Non Verbal Communication
Current research indicates that 93% of all communication is non-verbal. If this is also true for the person with dementia, maybe we can increase our understanding of their communication by using non-verbal communication that makes sense to them. In addition, we cannot forget the impact that culture plays in communication, which include the non-verbal communication norms within every culture.
Team Pitstick: Social and Emotional Wellness!
Kristin designed this silk arrangemet for a family member who had survived chemo treatment and surgery. The flowers were to celebrate, and to simply say, "I am proud of you!"
Team Leisure and Fun: Kettering Senior Show Choir!
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Kettering Senior Show Choir is a favorite entertainment group!
Team Spiritual Care: Reconciliation and Forgiveness
Should not reconciliation and forgiveness be our first response in a disagreement?
Read this before lawyering up
When Saint Paul heard that members of the church in the Greek city of Corinth were going into court and suing one another, he was incensed. For one thing he thought it shameful that Christians could not settle their disputes among themselves. For another, it was disgraceful to submit themselves to pagan judges. Be that as it may, Paul’s admonitions highlight the fact that the church should be a community of person-to-person reconciliation and that a Christian’s first instinct should be for forgiveness.
TODAY’S READINGS: 1 Corinthians 6:1-11; Luke 6:12-19 (438)
“It is . . . a failure on your part that you have lawsuits against one another.”
CONTRIBUTORS
Alice Camille, Daniel Grippo, Caroline Hopkinson, Father Larry Janowski, O.F.M., Ann O’Connor, Joel Schorn, Patrice J. Tuohy, and Sister Julie Vieira, I.H.M.
Monday, September 10, 2012
Team Thibodeau: First Grandchild!
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Joe & Cheryl Thibodeau welcomed their first Grandchild, Charlotte Ann, who was born at 5:23 p.m. on the Feast of the Assumption, August 15th in Columbus. Charlotte weighed 7 lbs/8 oz, and was 20 inches long. She is the new love of their lives.”
St. Leonard Studio Art: Painting of the Month!
Peter Losh's painting of his wife's grandmother was chosen by the St. Leonard Studio Art Commission as September's Painting of the Month!
Friday, September 7, 2012
Team Asian Arts: Belt Promotion!
The students range from green belt to red belt. The next promotions for the red belts will be the 1st dan black belt. They have studied over 4 years together. This team is sponsored by St. Leonard, Sinclair Community College, and Chung's Academy of Martial Arts.
Team Asian Arts: Belt Test!
Team Asian Arts tested for their next rank by demonstrating form, self-defense, basic motions, and footwork, boxing, and Kicking!
Team Huskey: Helping Local Animal Shelters!
Tina and St. Leonard volunteers help the 10th Life Cat Shelter by collecting empty medicine bottles to be recycled for veterinarian use and distribution.
Wednesday, September 5, 2012
Team Wasson Music: Everyone Should Sing Somewhere
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| Steve Makofka |
Several of the comments I heard about singing in public included the phrase "Yes, there was alcohol involved." If people are more likely to sing in public when they've been drinking, it suggests that the thing that prevents people from singing in public is...well...inhibitions. And nothing takes care of inhibitions better than alcohol. Is it true that most people don't sing in public because they"re too inhibited? Are people who do sing in public just less inhibited? What fear do people have that keeps them from singing in public? Do they fear being embarrassed? What is embarrassing about singing in public? Is it the fear of not singing well?
Have you ever been asked not to sing? Did you stop singing as a result? I've been asked not to sing, usually by family members. If someone asks you not to sing, you should probably sing anyway, unless there is a sleeping baby in the room. If you wake the baby, you have to take care of it. What about concerts? It's true that the person in front of you did not pay good money to hear YOU sing, so you should probably be respectful of the performer and the other members of the audience. But if the person on the stage says, "Sing!" then sing! The people in front of you should be singing, too. If they were singing then your singing wouldn't bother them as much. Have you ever asked someone not to sing? It's alright to ask someone not to sing right here, or right now. But I've had students who have had someone tell them they shouldn't sing at all. How unfortunate.
One of the most amazing vocal performances I ever heard was in a small church in Philadelphia. I was the pastor. There was a girl in the congregation who wanted to sing. She was the sweetest person you would ever want to meet, but she had a mental disability. And from congregational singing the whole church knew that her ability to match pitch was not well developed. (to say the least) But it was a small church and she wanted to sing. I told her the same thing I told everyone who wanted to sing a solo. Before you can sing you have to practice your song ten times in a row and then come sing it for me. I figured this would put her off and save the congregation from five minutes of awkwardness during a service.
The next week she came back smiling. She said, "My sister helped me and we went through the song ten times and I know every word." She sang it for me and she did indeed know every word. A deal's a deal so I told her she could sing it. I don't remember which song she sang, but I remember the performance. From a musical perspective it was not good. Some of the notes were close to being on pitch. Some were not. But when she was done there was not a dry eye in the house. She sang the words with such sincerity and conviction that every heart was moved.
Yesterday during my interview with Charlie, he mentioned singing to his children. He said, "I don't know if they like it because, you know me and pitch." (Charlie is also harmonically challenged.) My thought was, "But you sang to them." What more tender expression of love can their be then for a father to sing to his children? I can't say for certain, but I'm pretty sure they remember it fondly.
Everybody should sing somewhere. Some should sing on stage. Others should sing in the living room, in the kitchen, or in the car. Some should limit their endeavors to the shower. Every parent should sing to their children. Every grandparent should sing to their grandkids. Sing when no one is listening. If you are spiritual, sing as if someone is always listening. Just sing.
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