Capturing Essence for Care
Capturing Essence for Care
Podcast Description
Capturing Essence for Care focuses on the importance of incorporating personal life stories into health care and through each episode, Lisa invites guests and listeners to share their ideas and insights from their own experiences. We dive into various ways we can capture our own essence and have meaningful conversations about all types of storytelling methods, including through writing, video, voice, visuals and so much more! Join Lisa for solo episodes and interviews with diverse storytellers including personal historians, digital storytellers, guided autobiography instructors, healthcare practitioners among many others.
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Content Themes
The podcast delves into personal narratives, care transformations, and storytelling methodologies with specific episodes exploring topics like the impact of sharing life stories on dementia care and techniques for guided autobiography, emphasizing the exploratory nature of personal histories.
Capturing Essence for Care: Storytelling That Promotes Personhood in Healthcare Settings
Feeling rushed through patient interactions? Struggling to see the person behind the diagnosis?
Transform your senior care relationships in just minutes with evidence-based storytelling strategies that honour personhood in healthcare settings.
Listen for practical tools to:
- Open deeper conversations with seniors, even with limited time.
- Access life story approaches that reduce caregiver burnout.
- Hear real conversations with people with lived experience including persons living with dementia.
- Implement person-centred care that improves outcomes through meaningful connections.
Host Lisa brings together personal historians, digital storytellers, healthcare practitioners, and seniors themselves. Each episode delivers actionable insights for busy care teams seeking to capture essence through storytelling, writing, visual methods and more.
Perfect for: Healthcare providers, long term care staff, nursing home workers, home health aides, personal support workers, memory care teams, geriatric nurses, social workers, recreation, life enrichment and activity staff, family caregivers, and anyone passionate about promoting personhood through older adults’ stories.
Join healthcare workers already transforming their practice. Start honouring the whole person behind every patient chart—follow today and discover how small conversations create profound care connections.
Ron Beleno is an active advocate for dementia, caregiving, aging and research communities. From lived experience, he encourages others to transform the challenging caregiving journey into one of growth and resilience through his innovative approach to narrative reframing and community building. In caring for his father who had Alzheimer's for over ten years, Ron shares practical strategies that changed his perspective and improved quality of life for his entire family.
Key points discussed:
• Reframing problems as challenges creates a mindset focused on solutions rather than obstacles
• Over 60% of people with dementia will go missing at least once – simple strategies like door chimes and community networks can significantly reduce risks
• Building a support network by sharing your story with local businesses and neighbours creates a safety net for loved ones with dementia
• Men often struggle to identify as caregivers and typically seek help much later than women
• Eliminating words like ”good/bad” and ”right/wrong” when reflecting on caregiving decisions can significantly reduce caregiver guilt
• The narrative we tell ourselves about our caregiving experience profoundly influences how we navigate challenges
• Approaching caregiving with a ”gamer” mindset helps identify creative solutions to complex problems
Ron is an active member, advisor, and mentor to numerous organizations and educational institutions such as AGE-WELL NCE, Centre for Aging and Brain Health Innovation (CABHI) at Baycrest, City of Toronto's Seniors Strategy, SE Health (formerly known as Saint Elizabeth Health Care) and the Translational Research Program (TRP) at the University of Toronto's Faculty of Medicine.
To learn more, please reach out to Ron.
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Intro and outro music with thanks: Upbeat and Sweet No Strings by Musictown
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