Creating a Revolution in Nursing Homes: Putting Home and Heart In to Long-Term Care
September 26, 2011 | Story
RWJF Celebrates the 100th Green House Home.
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Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, NCB Capital Impact Announce $10 Million Loan-Fund to Expand Innovative Skilled-Nursing Care to Low-Income Seniors
September 8, 2011 | News Release
Marks first transaction in Foundation's new $100 Million "impact capital" commitment.
Retirement and Health Poll
September 1, 2011 | Survey/Poll
Pre-retirees may underestimate health, financial challenges of retirement, poll from NPR, RWJF and Harvard School of Public Health shows.
The Future of Death in America
July 1, 2011 | Journal Article
Researchers offer a more complete, yet easily modified model for estimating American life expectancy by age and sex, incorporating for the first time the decline in tobacco use, increase in obesity and well-known trends and patterns of mortality.
Examining the Evidence
July 1, 2011 | Journal Article
Older patients—the most complex and expensive patients—are not adequately represented in randomized controlled trials.
Excluding Elderly from Clinical Trials Makes Real-World Practice of Medicine Harder
March 21, 2011 | Story
Study by RWJF Clinical Scholars reveals that seniors are often excluded from trials, leaving doctors without critical data they need to treat their patients.
Retooling for an Aging America Conference
March 15, 2011 | Program Result Report
At its 16th annual conference, the Council on Health Care Economics and Policy focused on how to meet the growing need of aging Americans for health care services and released key recommendations.
Study Examines How Older Adults and Clinicians View Tradeoffs in Treatment Options
January 13, 2011 | Program Result Report
From 2007 to 2010, a team of researchers at Yale University School of Medicine conducted a study examining how both older adults and clinicians view the tradeoffs faced by patients facing multiple medical conditions.
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.
The Green House Revolution in Nursing Homes
January 1, 2011 | Commentary
RWJF President Risa Lavizzo-Mourey speech at the celebration of the opening of the 100th Green House home in West Orange, NJ, on September 27, 2011.