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Orange County Adult Care Home Community Advisory Committee <br />Meeting Minutes – November 19, 2015 <br /> <br />Meeting Convened <br />Meeting called to order at 3:40 pm at the Central Orange Senior Center in Hillsborough, NC by <br />Chair, Max Mason. <br />Attendees <br />Max Mason, Chair <br />Jack Vogt, Vice Chair <br />Deborah Stewart, Secretary <br />Suzanne Haff, Member <br />Debbie Rider, Member <br />Yvonne Mendenhall, Member <br />Mary Fraser, Department on Aging Liaison <br />The following committee member provided advance notice to Max Mason, Chair, that <br />they would miss the meeting; therefore her absence is considered excused: <br />Yvonne Mendenhall, James Bartow, Beverly Foster, Dan Hatley <br />Max noted that Joyce Teston has resigned from the Committee. <br /> <br />Minutes Sept 17, 2015 <br />Minutes approved. <br /> <br />Guest Speaker, Paul Klever, Charles House <br />• Philosophy of Eldercare Homes – Hx: 2007ish examining non-profit mission. Identified need <br />for non-profit provider of LT residential care in the area. <br />o Certificate of Need (CON) made Adult Care Home (ACH) more prohibitive but Family <br />Care Home (FCH) was more accessible (need CON for ACH of 7 or more). Able to use <br />Continuing Engagement model in residential setting, small-scale. No corridors which <br />can separate residents. <br />o Goal “neighborhood eldercare home” “Anti-senior encampment” where the aim is to <br />normalize the end of life in our everyday communities <br />o How do we morph what we do at the Charles House Adult Day Program into <br />residential setting? We examined several other community models such as <br />Greenhouse Project, Eden Alternative. Contacted Pioneer Network, a loose affiliation <br />of people who are engaged in culture-change, and Action-Packed out of Wisconsin <br />that helps organizations change culture, mostly in Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNF). <br />o Big difference in regulations between FCH and ALF – ACH requires levels of <br />institutionalization due to the regulations. There is a different set of guidelines for <br />FCH which allows for more freedom of design and function. We can keep people <br />who are not ambulatory – which means care through end-of-life.