I love Elder Care Alliance's focus on combatting ageism and building resilience with employees. Elder Care Alliance engages prospective and new employees around a riveting vision of: engaging hearts, transforming lives, erasing boundaries.Elder Care Alliance ensures that all find Purpose in their work with elders. In fact, that's the name of a project that showcases this great spirit - it's called the #withelders project.
I love Elder Care Alliance's passion for serving people living with dementia. The BridgeHaven Series free public education on various topics related to dementia were wonderful, and the series were held in several different locations throughout the San Francisco Bay Area.
I also attended the Movie Moments program at the Vogue Theatre in San Francisco. What a fun, inter-generational, dementia-inclusive event. It gave a picture of what inclusivity looks like as well as provided a space where people were seen as people with much to contribute -not seen in the context of their diagnosis. I can't wait for the next one!
I worked for this organization for many years. As the organization grew I was supportive both logistically and personally of the broader mission. The organization is now only a shell of it's former self. It's board is out-of-touch with the companies employees and services yet acts as an operational rubber stamp to it's for-profit focused corporate leadership. There is little "giving back" to the community by the businesses it runs yet it spends enormous amounts of program services dollars on salaries for corporate staff while reducing direct service employees hours. Risk aversion has taken over as the modus operandi, with quality care of people(both employees and customers) being forgone by a soley quantitative focus. Numbers are more important than people here.