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Americans are living longer, yet more people can expect to have some sort of disability in their later years of life. Innovative approaches to long-term care, such as re-imagining nursing home care, may improve quality and provide more choices.

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Can Culture Change Offer Viable Solutions to Meet Increased Demands for Long-Term Care?

August 1, 2012 | Issue Brief

The “culture change” movement is transforming long-term care by promoting more home-like facilities and providing more options for consumers to receive care how and where they want it, in their communities.

Scaling Visionary Solutions to Improve the Health of Vulnerable Populations

October 1, 2012 | Journal Article

The Green House Project, a breakthrough solution to caring for aging Americans, €illustrates what it takes to take an idea mainstream.

Community Partnerships for Older Adults

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.

Community Partnerships for Older Adults

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.

Getting Ready for the Coming "Silver Tsunami" in Maui, Hawaii

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.

Better Jobs Better Care: Building a Strong Long-Term Care Workforce

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.

Foundation Work in Long-Term Care

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.

Development and Initial Testing of a Measure of Person-Directed Care

July 1, 2008 | Journal Article

As part of the Oregon initiative in the Better Jobs Better Care program, a person-directed care (PDC) measure was developed and tested. The PDC measure was comprised of several PDC and environmental support constructs. It was internally consistent with distinct, yet positively correlated, concepts.

It's All in the Family: How Baby Boomers Will Meet Their Long-Term Care Needs

October 6, 2009 | Program Result

From 2003 to 2007, Richard Johnson, PhD, and researchers from the Urban Institute and RTI International examined the impact of the changing structure of families on long-term care.

Looking at the Coming Changes in Long-Term Care Needs, Costs and Financing Options

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.

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