Kristine, Author at Java Group Programs

Canada’s First Ever Dementia Village

Author: KristineOn: Jul 24Categories: Events No Comments

Last week I attended the opening of a new beautiful small community, set in a peaceful neighbourhood. It is a place where people living with dementia can live a full life in cottage-style households. This is The Village Langley – Canada’s...

Revera Launches Java Across Canada

Author: KristineOn: Jul 23Categories: In the News, Testimonials No Comments

Revera Launches Java Across Canada

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Thank you, Revera! This week Java Music, a peer support program, was shipped to all Revera communities across Canada—giving staff evidence-based tools to engage residents and help target social isolation and loneliness. In an effort the enhance resident’s...

‘Friends Day Out’: Java Music Club Complements RSVP’s Respite Care Program

Author: KristineOn: Jul 23Categories: For Facilitators, Testimonials No Comments

Nevada-RSVP-Java Music Program in Action!

‘Friends Day Out’: Java Music Club Complements RSVP’s Respite Care Program

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Nevada Rural Counties RSVP Program’s (RSVP) Respite Care Program meets the basic needs of caregivers who are faced with the daunting task of providing 24/7 care for elder Nevadans, Veterans and persons living with a disability. This vital assistance...

How to Save 3 Million: The Surprising Economics of Loneliness

Author: KristineOn: Jul 20Categories: In the News No Comments

How to Save 3 Million: The Surprising Economics of Loneliness

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By Kristine Theurer, PhD “If it doesn’t help my bottom line, I’m not interested.” I was having a brief chat at a conference with a CEO who operates 10 senior living homes, explaining how peer support and mentoring reduces loneliness and social...

How to End Loneliness

Author: KristineOn: Apr 15Categories: In the News No Comments

How to End Loneliness

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Loneliness is everywhere. Peer support – residents helping resident – is a cost effective and powerful approach to ending loneliness in senior living. Yet in the search for a solution, peer support is often overlooked. How can we create creating...

5 Ways to Listen with Empathy

Author: KristineOn: Mar 12Categories: For Facilitators, In the News No Comments

5 Ways to Listen with Empathy

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“The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention.” – Rachel Naomi Remen Being a good listener is not easy despite our good...

Immunization Rates Improve with Java Mentorship: The Chartwell Westbury Story

Author: KristineOn: Dec 19Categories: In the News, Testimonials No Comments

Getting a flu shot matters. “Flu and pneumonia are a critical health concern, and in recent years have resulted in over 50,000 deaths annually, making it the eighth-leading cause of death, just behind diabetes,” says Alison Bryant, Ph.D., senior vice...

What Java Mentorship means to me

Author: KristineOn: Oct 17Categories: Testimonials 1 Comment

Java Mentorship is having the opportunity of getting together with a group of friends and sharing our inner feelings with each other. It gives us the opportunity to share with each other emotionally, physically, and mentally. Emotionally if a tenant,...

Depression reduced 30%, activity increased 60% – Java Mentorship

Author: KristineOn: Sep 18Categories: In the News No Comments

Depression and loneliness contribute to functional declines, and mortality.(1) The associated health risks for loneliness alone are significant and include premature mortality and poorer health(2), dementia and how quickly dementia progresses and numerous...

How to calm distress in dementia

Author: KristineOn: Sep 17Categories: For Facilitators No Comments

“One of the most effective ways to overcome anxiety is to try to shift the focus of attention away from self and toward others.” Dalai Lama “I’m so lonely here.” That is how one individual living with dementia described their distress. In...