Advocacy
The Journal of Health Design “Identifying family caregivers as preventive medicine: An essential component of comprehensive primary care” editorial by Geri Lynn Baumblatt and Allison J. Applebaum
International Symposium to Advance Total Worker Health®
DCAlliance is excited to participate on the panel “The Landscape of Work and Family Caregiving - Evidence and Strategizing for the Future” at the Total Worker Health Symposium on October 11-14.
A3 Caregiving & Well-Being Summit
Co-founder Geri Baumblatt presenting with the Global Liver Institute on May 13th.
Uncharted's Economic Inequality Co-Lab
We’re thrilled to announce that the Difference Collaborative is participating in @ThisIsUncharted's Economic Inequality Co-Lab! From mid February to end of March, we’ll meet other innovators, participate in interactive workshops, and take our impact to the next level.
Learn more about the program and meet the entire #EIcolab cohort
3-22-2021 The Art of Doctoring
In this series Moyez Jiwa, of the Journal of Health Design, presents the question: to what extent do you take into account and involve members of families, their thoughts, feelings, and ideas into the care of a patient? Respondents Eric Last, Carly Flumer, and Geri Lynn Baumblatt share their perspectives.
3-21-2021 Design Is Dead podcast
Difference Collaborative co-founder Pete Wendel speaks about the ways design, healthcare, and caregiving intersect—in good and not so good ways—for the current and future state of design & health.
2-25-2021 Interview Audio & Transcript
The Power of Supporting Patients Between Visits - Geri Baumblatt, Co-Founder of The Difference Collaborative, with host Shiv Gaglani.
December 21, 2020 podcast episode of the Journal of Health Design, hosted by Moyez Jiwa
An interview with Geri Baumblatt
HEROForum20: This year Forum20 examines how group dynamics & social connectedness shape individual choices to become the best places to work.
Breakout Session: WORKING AND CAREGIVING: AN OPPORTUNITY TO BUILD A CARING CULTURE
with Geri Baumblatt, co-founder, the Difference Collaborative; Jonathan Lewis, Director of People Operations, Storable; and Michael Walsh, Founder and CEO, Cariloop
Sept 24th, 2:10 - 3:10 PM CT
PATH (patient advocates transforming healthcare) Tuesday Table Talks:
Caregiving at Work and at Home - When Healthcare Workers are Caregivers Too
Tuesday, June 16, 2020
A YouTube recording of a Zoom conversation between host Hala Durrah, founder of PATH, Ogo Ekwueme, CEO+Founder, Career Haven; and Geri Baumblatt, Co-Founder, Difference Collaborative
Note: Requires registration with NHIT to access free Webinar. Link allows you to register, then immediately access Webinar.
COVID-19: Supporting Family Caregivers & Communities in a Pandemic
April 23rd, 2020
Audio recording of a Webinar given by Geri Baumblatt (Difference Collaborative) and MaryAnne Sterling (Livpact) for the NHIT Community Transformation Forum.
Improving the Caregiver Experience Panel at Health Experience Design Conference
April 15, 2-2:45 PM ET
Speakers:
Manjari Raman, Program Director & Senior Researcher, Harvard Business School
Geri Lynn Baumblatt, Co-Founder, the Difference Collaborative
Danny van Leeuwen, Patient/Caregiver Activist, Health Hats
Health Hats Podcast: Geri Baumblatt on Employed Family Caregivers & The Difference Collaborative
From January 12, 2020
On this episode of Danny van Leeuwen’s Health Hats Podcast, Danny interviews Geri Baumblatt:
- “My compatriot, Geri Lynn Baumblatt, consults and advocates on the overlapping worlds of employees, family caregivers, employers, and support, especially in nursing. In short, bread winners also caring for family and friends with acute and chronic illnesses and disabilities. I picture these overlapping worlds as balloons mashing up against each other trying not to burst. If you’re a nurse, an employer, a boss, or a caregiving staff member, this chat about the Difference Collaborative is for you.”
Video from Webinar: Designing a More Humane Workplace: Supporting Employees that Juggle Working and Caregiving
From November 20, 2019
Family caregiving has a growing impact on the health, wellbeing, productivity, and ability of employees to continue to work. It impacts teams, managers, and culture. How many crucial frontline workers, such as nurses, call in sick at the last minute because of a health crisis in their family, e.g. their mom falling and breaking a hip? Juggling a career and caring for loved ones is hard for employees and hard for management. Yet, supporting caregiving employees isn’t straight forward. People don’t self-identify as caregivers, or they fear drawing attention to it will harm their career. Join us as we consider how to co-design a culture of care to improve the future of work for everyone so people can care, work and thrive. Hear about:
• The impact caregiving has on employees and employers
• Insights that emerged when we looked at a specific group: nurse family caregivers
• In-flight research to help leaders build support and facilitate change
• How a growing coalition of employers, researchers, designers, product/service providers, and nonprofits is coming together to collaborate
Presenters:
Geri Lynn Baumblatt, MA; Co-Founder, The Difference Collaborative
Jiayun Xu, PhD, RN; Purdue University School of Nursing
Our first event of 2019 was the Employee Family Caregiver Summit: The Nurse Caregiver Experience.
On 10/31, we gathered hospital system leadership, nurse leadership, nurse family caregivers, researchers, and subject matter experts at UI Health System’s Institute for Healthcare Delivery here in Chicago to consider how might we share and learn from and with each other to design better interventions that improve the experience of nurse/family caregivers, managers, and teams.
This first event was a small, invitation-only summit. We hope to have a similar gathering in the Spring in Boston (TBA).
