Foulkeways at Gwynedd

Title: Foulkeways at Gwynedd
Time: 14 min 57 sec

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hello my name is Mary Knapp I'm the director of Health Services at folkways and when it we are the oldest continuing care retirement community or life plan community in Pennsylvania and the oldest national Quaker affiliated continuing care retirement community on our 138 campus we have a nursing home personal care or assisted living home care residential living Hospice we have a multitude of medical and clinical services including an on-site pharmacy fitness center and rehabilitation for years folkways has provided a clinical opportunity for students to learn however in 2011 we made a very aggressive attempt to increase the number of students who are receiving their education in the Philadelphia area to come and learn at folkways as we had students enter our nursing home one of our residents a former active pulmonologist dr. back asked if he could teach the students about pulmonary function he began teaching the students and they learned from him as a physician and as a nursing home resident about clinical practice and applying physiology into good nursing care later bunny brownie talked to the students about being a nurse in a concentration camp in World War two and how she used her nursing skills to be able to survive so with that active recruitment we have over ten colleges and universities who send their students to foot ways we asked our residents to expand our educational opportunities for the students by creating a senior scholar program we have our residents lecture students and also provide clinical education some of our senior scholars are going to share what they share with students with you yeah I'm Jessica Terrell I've lived here at folkways for 12 years now for 11 of those years I have produced or given staff development programs to our nursing aides a bit of background I in 1979 started a company that just published nurses aids programs monthly and we did that for 25 years we sold them throughout the United States and Canada here at folkways I put on a 30-minute program once a month I do it at the living in the morning 2:00 in the afternoon 10:00 at night 11:30 at night if appropriate we also invite the student nurses student physical therapy people who are here in rotation I'd like to think that what I produce and give to the aides helps in the care provided here first I can't really know that for sure I do think that I help improve morale because they get a chance to see a person who cares enough to come and see them at all hours of the day instead of having to just learn off the computer also the students learned from the aides who have vastly more experience and they do and I can sometimes think that I do more outside of folkways than I do here because the eight for a program might be diabetes Parkinson's dementia will ask me detailed questions because they have a friend or family member who either has the disease or they are questioning whether they do or not I also benefit because I have to look up and study to make sure I'm up-to-date with latest information that I'm providing who ever would have imagined that at 84 I would still be contributing my nursing knowledge to the world my name is fran and i present to students various aspects of the aging process my purpose is to sensitize them to signs of aging and those they serve as well as to recognize understand and appreciate the aging process within themselves because every person approaches the aging process in a new unique way my goal is to help students respond with a positive attitude to the needs of those they serve I do this by highlighting examples of individuals within their own families such as parents grandparents aunts and uncles some of whom may have aged gracefully and others who perhaps resist and struggle with the aging process in a difficult challenging and negative manner it helps students to relate in a meaningful way to the aging process if it can be compared to the aging experience of a member of one's own family Bob's my name I'm a tour guide I am NOT in Switzerland Alps not on a ship in the Caribbean no a tour guide at folkways I am folkways a retirement community celebrating 50 years of caring for retired women and men 15 years a tour guide three years touring a very special group of local students learning how to take care of median residents from the classroom to the real world the students provide our residents with personal medical attention a smile a conversation maybe even a hub a rhyming on our campus as students they leave to their work world with a strong foundation with a caring spirit wherever they are employed hi my name is Reba the things I will say today or from observations I've made over the 22 years I've lived here at folkways I came a little earlier than many do because my husband was a little older than I was and I was willing also I enjoyed my teaching days I've enjoyed my entire days because I can still do a lot of the things I used to do when I was in school for instance when students come by it's nice when the tour guide brings them to the craft room where I stay many hours a day to show them the yarn and the fabric new things they can do with it if they were one thing to have a little project sometimes they just want sewing done hemming so we've we've evolved into a repair shop as well but it's all part of what's fun for us as residents as well as for the residents neat my name is Charlene I came into folk ways because when I was 79 to have been here six years and I can because I was aware of the fact that my healthcare is complicated and that as I got older I wanted to be in a place that could that specialized in taking care of complicated old-age people my family lives with a congenital kidney disease called Obert syndrome which you'll run into in the hospital while you're doing your training but not in an older person living with a transplant for 20 years as I have my hope is that when you are here you'll see the possibilities for good care that the medical end of your experience later on when a person is beyond that critical stage of their illness and the possibilities that's my hope for you that it will broaden your knowledge of Aging and really familial diseases congenital diseases thank you hi I'm Lois I've had the privilege of working here for 16 and 1/2 years as a nurse and now I have the privilege of talking with nursing students describing what it's like to have macular degeneration it seems to be a growing problem in the community these days I don't know whether that's a matter of better better diagnosis or whether we actually have more macular degeneration my idea was to describe to students what it was like to gradually lose my sight and have to give up the different things that I enjoy doing I didn't give them a medical review of the disease but rather a personal idea of what the disease does to an individual hopefully it will help them to understand what is happening and to understand how people are reacting to it so my name is Carolyn shot and I'm I've been a community health nurse and pediatric nurse here at folkways I was on the founding member of the end of life concerns committee and the residents wanted to create more comfort and safety and opportunity for talking about a serious topic that is on our minds and we talked about it and the opportunity to work with student nurses came about as we showed a film being mortal the students shared immediately their own experiences of dying because dying is part of life the unborn baby the tragic death of someone too young and so together we created a safe place or having this conversation about how does a nurse step into this new day where we have gone from avoiding the topic to being able to say can we talk can we talk about it's it's might be time to talk about a worst case scenario as we balance it with a best case scenario and so having real conversations and being real people ourselves is what the interaction is about the students are younger they are an eager and we really wanted them to know that older people think about this talk about it and actually need to talk about so it's a it's a new day in our care settings where doctors and nurses are just learning how to talk I assume and talking with students in the past I have tried to present to them a feeling that ageing and being old is a very individual thing that we shouldn't look the older population as being a solid an ammonite group that we age differently and also we all experience different changes and they are very individual with that in mind at the end I am talking to nurses all right I like to leave them with a saw that when they visit an older person probably as nurses this will be in a medical surrounding the patient realized that this person has already suffered a lot of losses they suffered losses for her service Klaus and Friends they've lost their senses and they had the best taste sight hearing and many of them better off with many of them really feel and lack of control over their lives and right now they're shaped so that when the nurse comes into their room to be with them and have done I would remind them always take but I call them a piece of cake see a k-e compassion and kindness every time