click here to view the interview

"Excerpts from COLLAGE Healthy Aging Conversations"

“Nouns. Names, places and things. But not permanently, they always come back at two in the morning….” “And again it’s nouns, it’s not not remembering how to do things or forgetting Christmas, it’s words.”

Resident, Kendal at Longwood, Kennett Square, PA

click the image to view  (15:09)
click here to view the interview

“There is no way to get to quality without engaging in the kind of work that COLLAGE allows organizations to do.”

Robyn Stone, Executive Director, Institute for the Future of Aging Services (IFAS) and Senior Vice President of Research, AAHSA, Washington, DC

click the image to view the interview  (2:16)
click here to view the interview

“We think this tool is very special in terms of its ability to get at unmet needs, to assess them in a way that people can understand and really help them to live more successful.”

Tom Slemmer, President and CEO, National Church Residences, Columbus, OH

click the image to view the interview  (3:00)
click here to view the interview

"I think COLLAGE has really helped us cut across our service lines by creating a common language and a data set that is irrefutable in what it delivers to us.”

David Gehm, President and CEO, Lutheran Homes of Michigan, Saginaw, MI

click the image to view the interview  (2:52)
click here to view the interview

“COLLAGE, for one, is the only one that’s providing some type of collaborative collection of data across the retirement community continuum throughout the country.”

Gary Mohn, President and CEO, Alexian Village of Milwaukee, WI

click the image to view the interview  (2:49)
click here to view the interview

“What knits this together is that it’s based in valid, reliable questions. And from it we have the capacity to compare outcomes from one community to another, based on good solid evidence.”

John Diffey, President and CEO, The Kendal Corporation, Kennett Square, PA

click the image to view the interview  (2:03)
click here to view the interview

“The thing about programs like COLLAGE, it’s built on continuous quality improvement and management principles which we’ve known now for two generations work.”

Larry Minnix, President and CEO, American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging (AAHSA), Washington, DC

click the image to view the interview  (2:37)


AUTHOR & EDITOR INSTRUCTIONS

You should only add, change or delete information in the Content Panel to the right. DO NOT modify any of the other elements on this page or it will not work properly when web-delivered.

Please refer to the Collage Corporate Web Site Documentation - Author/Editor Section for tips on entering different content types (e.g. graphics, movies, links etc.) as well as formatting techniques. Several important points:

  • The width of the content display panel is FIXED at 504 pixels wide (inside the display margins). Graphics and other inserts (e.g. movies, etc.) can not exceed this width.
  • Where possible, use the Paragraph tag to wrap text and image inserts in order to keep proper spacing and alignments.
  • On FORM pages you can only edit/change the title graphic, field captions and the text above the form.

Keep in mind that you must update the Site Navigation File if:

  • You have created a new web page from one of the pre-defined page templates
  • You want to change where the page is displayed in the site's navigation menu
  • You want to restrict the page viewing to Members ONLY
  • There is no need for the fixed-height scroller display (all of your content for this page is above the bottom of the page's picture graphic (not the reflection)

Please note that when this page is delivered to a browser on the web, the top and bottom menus will be dynamically valued, the content panel to the right will be a fixed height and this information panel will NOT be displayed.