Today’s bonus episode continues the conversation Jen had with Jude Rabig of Rabig Consulting. She explains the lengths that they went to when designing and building the first Greenhouses to make sure that they mirrored the houses and homes the residents would be coming from in the specific context of Tupelo, Mississippi. She gives some strategies anyone can use to make sure that their care environment reflects the place it finds itself in, and the residents who find themselves in it.

Jude Rabig is a nationally recognized leader, speaker, and change agent who served as the first Executive Director of the National Green House Project. She assisted in shaping the model of care and leading the implementation of the first Green Houses in Tupelo, Mississippi. Through her company Rabig Consulting, she provides customized change consultations to help communities develop innovative strategies for change in long-term care.  She has worked with scores of organizations nationally and in Canada to develop small house communities.  In addition to providing Small House consulting nationally, she also founded and leads Lifespace Senior Services based in Schenectady, NY to provide home and community-based clients with support for their holistic well-being with an emphasis on thriving despite limitations or frailty. She has served in many roles including Director of the Office for Aging and Continuing Care in Oneida County New York and Professor of Gerontology at Utica College. In each of these positions, she has worked tirelessly, exhibiting a commitment to fighting ageism, and championing programs and practices that support autonomy, dignity and enhanced quality of life for older adults. She is a former Atlantic Philanthropies, Hartford Foundation Practice Change Fellow, and a Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services Innovation Adviser. She holds a Ph.D. in gerontology and a business certificate from Stanford School of Business.

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