If you have been working hard to create and sustain a beautiful garden for Elders and their care partners and want to learn more about how to support healing for people living with unresolved trauma, you are invited to join me in Omaha, Nebraska on June 27th for “Trauma Informed Care: Making Peace with the Past.”

“How has Mrs. Smith handled change in the past?” This was how we predicted how well a new resident would cope with nursing home admission in 1983, when I started my career in aging services. For the most part, this simplistic rule of thumb seemed to work, but I look back now and see that question as but an opening to a deeper conversation, one that might help any organization understand how to best adjust its own practices and environment to support an Elder new to its services or community.