Sponsorship

NJHA and LeadingAge NJ & DE are pleased to co-host this seminar.  All environments serving residential elders have been stressed to secure resident safety while continuing to provide care.  Moving into successive phases of pandemic and recovery, it is critical that leaders have an eye on the future in "rebounding" residents, staff, and themselves.  An essential step is to critically examine populations for effects of physical, cognitive, and social/emotional deconditioning and begin building a plan of action for reconditioning.  Additionally, leaders need to recognize signs of trauma in staff and residential elders and devise plans to address this. Anticipating there may not be a firm post-pandemic finish line where we return to pre-pandemic operations, this session discusses hybrid models of reconditioning presented in emerging literature to achieve goals of wellness.  The session reviews and reports results of focus groups conducted with post-acute providers to hear experiences related to deconditioning; key contributing factors; strategies employed during pandemic to engage the interdisciplinary team in addressing decline; strategies in categories of technology, loneliness/activity, outcome measures, and others beneficial for continuing in a post-pandemic world; and best practice guidelines related to health, wellness, and recovery from trauma.  The roadmap provided addresses isolation and quarantine and will remain pertinent for other situations that arise long after COVID is in the rearview mirror.