This two-part episode examines the evolving role of long term care ombudsmen during the COVID-19 pandemic. In part one, Pamela Mickens, Staff Long-Term Care Ombudsman with the Senior Source in Texas, discusses how ombudsmen serve as a conduit for residents and families. In part two (22:00), Texas State Long-Term Care Ombudsman Patty Ducayet chats about the weekly Facebook Live program and leveraging technology to connect with families and ombudsmen.
Background reading and references:
- Visit the Senior Source website, theseniorsource.org, to access resources for seniors and caregivers
- Visit Texas’s LTC Ombudsman Facebook page, https://www.facebook.com/texasltcombudsman, to watch the 30-minute videos on Wednesdays (live or recorded) providing local and national updates on long term care
- Texas’ Office of the Long-Term Care Ombudsman webpage, https://apps.hhs.texas.gov/news_info/ombudsman/
- Watch Patty’s testimony to the Texas Senate Committee on Health & Human Services (1:50) about the effects of COVID-19 on long-term care residents
- Connecticut’s State Long Term Care Ombudsman Program is also providing educational videos on Facebook Live (https://www.facebook.com/CTLTCOP) hosted by Mairead Painter
- An Associated Press article, “Not just COVID,” examines how nursing home residents are suffering and dying for reasons beyond the virus
- Pamela’s recommendations
- The 40 Day Soul Fast: Your Journey to Authentic Living by Cindy Tramm
- War Room
- Patty’s recommendations
- Trauma Stewardship: An Everyday Guide to Caring for Self While Caring for Others by Laura van Dernoot Lipsky and Connie Burk
- Weightlifting
- Die Hard and Die Hard 2
Host: Eric Goldwein
Music: Liturgy of the Street by Shane Ivers – https://www.silvermansound.com
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