Regenerating Meaning Through the Living-Learning Community

Principal Investigators
Dale Dannefer
Professor, Counseling and Human Development

Paul Stein
Doctoral Student

Description
A consortium of nursing home residents, staff, and family members worked with the Warner School’s, Dale Dannefer and Paul Stein, and Lifespan of Greater Rochester, on a project aimed toward improving the social relationships for nursing home residents, their families, and employees. The project used the knowledge of residents to train nursing home workers and to improve day-to-day experiences for everyone. Work groups grappled with issues ranging in complexity from simple improvements, such as increasing the size of the words on staff nametags to make them more legible, to larger issues about death and dying.

The two-year project was supported by a $230,000 grant from the New York State Department of Health and was completed in 2001.