The Eden at Home Series applies the power of The Eden Alternative’s 10 principles to improving quality of life for Elders living at home and their care partners.  By our definition, care partners include family, friends, neighbors, volunteers, home health professionals, and the Elder herself.  With an eye for changing the culture of care at the grassroots level, Eden at Home (EAH) emphasizes building creative and collaborative care partner teams empowered by concepts central to person-directed care.  We promote a culture of meaningful care in our communities that does not see the needs of caregivers as separate from the needs of care receivers, but rather advocates for the well being of the whole care partnership.  Working together, empowered care partner teams help to ensure the independence, dignity, and continued growth and development of their elder care partners and each other via a quest to eliminate loneliness, helplessness, and boredom for everyone on the team.  The EAH Series includes two versions of our curriculum:

• Creating Quality of Life for Care Partner Teams, or
• Creating Quality of Life for Care Partners Living with Dementia
  
  

Trainer Certification…

Eden at Home Care Partner Workshops…

• Offer tools for reducing stress & avoiding burnout
• Help everyone on the care-partner team prevent loneliness, helplessness, & boredom
• Highlight honoring & nurturing each team member’s unique capacity for growth
• Encourage development of meaningful connections between care partners
• Emphasize the power of giving as well as receiving for everyone on the team
• Inspire participants to shift perceptions about aging and disability
  
• Share creative ways to share joy, hope, wisdom, respect, spontaneity, & connection

Participating Care Partners Have Shared Experiencing…

• Expansion of their support networks
• Positive changes in their relationships with their Elder care partners
• Positive changes in their relationships with other care partners on their team
• A transformation in their outlook on the giving and receiving of care
  
• A sense of growth as a person

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