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Frontline Caregiver Daily Practices

January 1, 2011 | Journal Article

Compared with traditional skilled nursing homes, the Green House model allows for more time to be spent caring for and engaging residents.

Person-Centered Care for Nursing Home Residents

January 7, 2010 | Journal Article

The culture-change movement is a broad-based effort to transform nursing homes from impersonal health care institutions into true person-centered homes offering long-term care services. The movement encompasses almost three decades of consumer advocacy coupled with legal, legislative, and policy work aimed at improving both the quality of care and the quality of life in nursing homes.

New State Strategies to Meet Long-Term Care Needs

January 1, 2010 | Journal Article

Consumer-directed long-term care service programs give participants the flexibility they want, while reducing unmet need for home and community-based services and supports. Their experiences offer valuable insights, guidance and encouragement to other states contemplating consumer-directed service expansions.

Creating Lifelong Communities

January 1, 2009 | Journal Article

This article explores the issue of aging and longevity, and describes one region's response to the growing population of seniors.

How Does Cash and Counseling Affect Costs?

February 1, 2007 | Journal Article

This research examines Cash and Counseling's effects on the costs and uses of Medicaid's personal care services or home and community-based waiver services effects on other Medicaid costs and effects on total Medicaid costs.

Continuous Quality Improvement as an Innovation

January 1, 2005 | Journal Article

There is preliminary evidence that the formal adoption of continuous quality improvement (CQI) in nursing homes contributes to improved clinical outcomes. This study identifies organizational factors that best predict formal CQI adoption. Data for t ...