{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"The Shift in Dementia Care from Control to Connection","description":" Today we\u2019re continuing our Medicine in Transition theme with a topic that is deeply personal, professionally important, and long overdue.  This episode is titled \u201cThe Shift of Dementia Care: From Control to Connection.\u201d But we\u2019re not doing this one alone. We\u2019re joined by a special guest, Jennifer Stoner.Jennie is a retired professor from Aurora University in Aurora, Illinois, where she taught in recreation administration and therapeutic recreation, helping train future professionals to design meaningful, person\u2011centered programs for older adults and people living with disabilities. She has spent much of her career at the intersection of aging, recreational therapy, and program administration, with a special interest in how purposeful leisure and engagement can support quality of life for people living with dementia. Through her academic work and consulting, she\u2019s been part of a broader movement to move dementia care away from simply controlling behaviors and toward connection, dignity, and participation\u2014in long\u2011term care, adult day programs, and community settings.   ","author_name":"PodcastDX","author_url":"https:\/\/www.PodcastDX.Com","html":"