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Provider Information for 'Alzheimer Mediation For Dementia Conflict'
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Karen Rice is in private practice in Scottsdale; Alzheimer`s Mediation for Dementia Conflict
serves Greater Phoenix to northern Arizona. Founder of Alzheimer`s
& Family Care Management, Rice has provided research, education,
dementia care management and mediation services since 1994. Karen pioneered targeted dementia care services and first launched to underserved rural populations in northeast Ohio. Continuing needs assessments and facility development projects in the late 90`s identified need for conflict resolution services. The practice responded by becoming specialized in Family Caregiver Mediation and Adult Guardianship Mediation at the Center for Social Gerontology in Ann Arbor, MI in 2000. Biography Karen Rice has a Master`s Degree in Sociology of Health and Family; Master`s Certificates in Gerontology and Long-term Care Administration plus 1800 mediation and CEU hours. Her focus is quality, culturally competent person-centered care, staff/family conflict, professional education, certification and policy. Karen is a Licensed Nursing Home Administrator in Ohio. She led Alzheimer start-up facilities in Ohio, Michigan and has consulted on various start-up projects. In 2003, she contracted with OhioKePro for The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Service`s Quality of Care Mediation Initiative. Current effort is benchmarking the customer service training for the CMS QIO's. Karen is on Advisory Boards for SeniorLink of Boston, The Arizona Republic and is Dementia Expert for Carepathways.com. Internationally, Karen works with Canada's Elder Mediation International Network. She contributes to both the caregiving and mediation literatures (on-line at www.mediate.com, www.ezine.com ). She critiqued ''Key Elements of Dementia Care'' for the National Alzheimer`s Association. For a decade, she was Developer and Chair of the first two national special interest groups on Alzheimer`s Disease Research and Caregiver Stress. Karen`s research won State of Ohio recognition for findings on ethical dilemmas for staff of Alzheimer`s persons. She was co-Principle Investigator of a clinical study on cognitive decline and researcher on several US grant-funded aging studies involving Alzheimer`s.
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(The views expressed are the opinions of the
author and do not necessarily represent the views of CareMinds, Inc. or its employees.)
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| Assistance with medical care: | Yes | Transitional Care: | Yes |
| Client Advocacy: | Yes | Monitoring in home help: | Yes |
| Coordination of health care services: | Yes | Coordination of transportation services: | Yes |
| Acting as a liason to families at a distance: | Yes | Professional documentation: | Yes |
| Assisting and coordinating with transition between home and family: | Yes | Providing consumer education and advocacy: | Yes |
| Available for emergencies: | Yes |