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July 31, 2008 | Program Result Report
Project staff at Moses Taylor Hospital in Scranton, Pa., expanded a program that relied on volunteers to work with geriatric patients to prevent and reduce delirium, an underreported condition that can result in higher mortality and morbidity.
January 1, 2003 | Book
Formally called the Rural Hospital Program of Extended-Care Services, the goal of this program was to use excess hospital beds in rural areas to deliver long-term care for the frail and disabled.
May 1, 1997 | Program Result Report
The New Hampshire Housing Finance Authority created the Resident Education and Assistance Program to address problems of undiagnosed substance abuse among elderly residents living in subsidized public and private housing.
October 7, 2011 | Story
A Profile of Glenn A. Melnick, PhD.
January 24, 2013 | Story
Ruth Murphey Parker's research has focused predominantly in two areas: medical education and health services for under-served populations.
January 1, 2010 | Journal Article
Health foundations have invested in services, research, and advocacy to improve the financing and delivery of long-term services and supports. This article describes some of the broad array of approaches they have taken.
September 1, 2004 | Program Result Report
Starting in 1997, investigators at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, analyzed the effects of advanced patient age on resource use in hospitals, clinical outcomes for the patient and the cost-effectiveness of selected life-sustaining treatments.
December 1, 2003 | Program Result Report
The Legacy Good Samaritan Hospital and Medical Center refined and evaluated the Community Resource Connection, an administrative system that identified health care needs among elderly patients and linked them to appropriate services.
August 1, 2000 | Program Result Report
From 1995 to 1998, researchers at the Urban Institute conducted a study of the District of Columbia's 11 major acute-care facilities, focusing also on the Medicaid system and long-term care for the elderly.
November 1, 2000 | Program Result Report
From 1991 to 1996, researchers at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center compared outcomes among elderly patients in two types of health care settings.