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December 8, 2011 | Program Result
Community Partnerships for Older Adults (CPFOA) aimed to improve long-term care and supportive systems for vulnerable older adults by fostering collaborative partnerships and building community capacity.
December 7, 2011 | Story
Rita Barreras led a community partnership in Maui, Hawaii, to create an infrastructure that allowed older adults to "age in the community" by increasing the caregiver workforce and changing rules to expand long-term-care options.
October 29, 2009 | Report
Webcast: Ed Howard moderates a discussion about the issues facing older adults and how community partnerships are working to identify, prioritize, and implement workable solutions to long term care problems.
April 27, 2011 | Program Result
Better Jobs Better Care supported changes in long-term-care policy and provider practices to reduce high vacancy and turnover rates among the paraprofessionals who provide direct care to older adults and to improve the quality of that care.
October 12, 2009 | Program Result
This Topic Summary synthesizes work supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) and described in Grant Results that is related to housing and supportive services for chronically ill and disabled elderly and adults.
May 1, 2001 | Journal Article
Evaluations of home care for chronically ill elderly people have shown disappointitng results for many years.
July 28, 2009 | Program Result
From 2001 to 2007, researchers at Georgetown University's Health Policy Institute produced and commissioned a range of studies on long-term-care needs, costs and financing options.
January 14, 2009 | Program Result
Minnesota's Department of Human Services planned, developed and implemented Minnesota Senior Health Options, a managed care program that blends funds from the Medicare and Medicaid programs.
September 17, 2012 | Grantee
Developing small community homes as alternatives to nursing homes, this radical, new national model for skilled nursing care returns control, dignity, and a sense of well-being to elders, their families, and direct care staff.
September 1, 2005 | Program Result
Project staff at the Urban Institute worked with experts in the field to develop recommendations for a research and demonstration agenda to improve the recruitment and retention of frontline long-term care workers.