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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.
October 8, 2009 | Video/Story
David Carey is being honored for his work to help people with disabilities direct and control their own health care services, and for his activism to ensure safe public transportation options for them.
National Program
Program to provide grant support, technical assistance, and loan funds to states to create affordable models of assisted living targeted to low-income seniors and linked with existing community health care systems.
June 28, 2011 | Story
INQRI-funded study on using nurse leadership to help ensure adoption of "function focused care" will be disseminated to 20 Baltimore-area assisted living facilities.
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.
January 6, 2011 | Story
New partnership uses participant-directed services to keep Veterans in their communities and out of nursing homes.
July 1, 2006 | Program Result Report
The Long Term Care Community Coalition in New York City produced, field tested, revised and disseminated guidebooks to help residents of assisted living residences have greater control over their lives.
January 31, 2004 | Program Result Report
Pennsylvania's Department of Public Welfare, Office of Mental Retardation ran pilot projects to develop and implement the first steps of county plans to give people with developmental disabilities greater choice in determining the services they receive.
January 31, 2004 | Program Result Report
Maryland's Developmental Disabilities Administration implemented pilot self-determination projects to give people with developmental disabilities and their families greater control over the services they received.
August 1, 2004 | Program Result Report
Starting in early 2001, Arkansas developed a model of affordable assisted living - The Gardens at Osage Terrace - a 45-unit facility in Bentonville, Ark.