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December 6, 2009 | Story
The Initiative held the Forum on the Future of Nursing: Community Health, Public Health, Primary Care, and Long-Term Care on December 3, 2009, at the Community College of Philadelphia.
November 22, 2009 | Story
CBS' 60 Minutes reports that many Americans spend their last days in an intensive care unit, subjected to uncomfortable machines or surgeries to prolong their lives at enormous cost.
November 18, 2009 | Video/Story
Green Houses provide an environment in which residents receive nursing support and clinical care without the care becoming the focus of their existence.
October 29, 2009 | Audio
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.
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.
October 8, 2009 | Story
Residents of the Tohono O'odham Nation had to leave the reservation if they needed skilled nursing care until Frances Stout helped establish the first skilled-care facility for aging Native Americans on the Tohono O'odham Reservation.
September 1, 2009 | Program Result
Partners in Caregiving: The Dementia Services Program was a 4.5-year, $2.5-million national program to build on the lessons from a prior program called the Dementia Care and Respite Services Program.
April 23, 2009 | Story
A newly released policy brief is giving federal and state policy-makers new information on the many ways nurses are poised to transform our health care system.
March 27, 2009 | Evaluation
The evaluation addresses questions about the Foundation’s end-of-life strategy improve care for individuals at the end of life. The focus of the assessment was on how these projects, together, help create strategy.
February 27, 2009 | Toolkit
This handbook explains how states can increase program participants' choice of and control over their services and supports.