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Meaning, Purpose, And Overall Health

The research about meaning (and the impact on health) is out there. Explore ways to enhance meaning in your life as well as the lives of others!

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An Intention for 2025: Understanding

By centering mutual understanding – both in leadership and in life – we create the conditions for people to connect bravely, collaborate respectfully, and live authentically.

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Transform Dementia Care with The Eden Alternative®: Dementia Beyond Drugs

Dementia care has often been approached from a clinical, task-oriented perspective, but there is a growing recognition that truly compassionate care requires something deeper: a focus on the person, their experiences, and their inherent potential for connection and meaning.

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Handling Holiday “Have-To’s”

Seeing the why can bring life-affirming energy to things we once dreaded; conversely, it can reveal that some things we’ve been prioritizing don’t actually align with our values.  Using this tool clarifies what we want to embrace and where we want to set boundaries.  

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Understanding Distress and How to be a Better Care Partner

There are ways to interact with each other that can decrease the distress experienced by everyone involved.

You must shift how you view your role in the relationship and how you define what you see happening for the person living with dementia, including how they interact with the world around them.

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Embracing a Well-Being Approach to Living Well with Dementia

At the heart of Dr. Power’s approach is the recognition that a diagnosis of dementia does not eliminate a person’s humanity, their right to have influence over their own life, or their need for well-being.

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Blah Blah Blah Trauma…

Why do some people have lasting problems because of these different incidents? What helps some people be more resilient, and others more vulnerable, to the impact of trauma?

And finally, what can be done to heal from trauma?

Where’s the Meaning? A Life Changing Question.

Where’s the Meaning? A Life Changing Question.

The Eden Approach® to person-directed care infuses meaning into every corner, every act and every relationship. This way, all care partners share in a life worth living.

Welcome New Eden Team Members

Welcome New Eden Team Members

The Eden Alternative team continues to grow, adding three new team members in the past two months. Learn about them here!

Impossible to Possible

Impossible to Possible

By Michelle Daniel, President & CEO “Ms. Daniel, we do not have any water. There is absolutely no water coming into this building.”   This urgent call arrived in the early hours of the morning. On the other end of the phone line was a nurse from a community where, as Administrator, I was responsible for…

Create Culture Keepers – Invest in your Team

Create Culture Keepers – Invest in your Team

By Michelle DanielPresident & CEO, The Eden Alternative “The new hire quit. She seemed like such a great candidate. She interviewed so well, and we all liked her. What happened?” Does this sound familiar in your work environment? There are regularly open positions waiting on the “new hire” and onboarding/orientation is rushed or abbreviated –…

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