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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Community Partnerships for Older Adults
December 8, 2011 | Program Result Report
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.
Better Jobs Better Care: Building a Strong Long-Term Care Workforce
April 27, 2011 | Program Result Report
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.
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.
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.
Continuing Care Networks Succeed with Multidiscipline Team Approach
June 8, 2006 | Program Result Report
The Community Coalition for Long Term Care - a coalition of Monroe (N.Y.) county agencies, BlueCross/BlueShield, local health care providers and advocacy organizations - conducted a demonstration project to develop and implement Continuing Care Networks.
Oregon Works!: Promoting Change Through Person-Directed Care
April 25, 2011 | Program Result Report
The Oregon Works! project of Better Jobs Better Care aimed to improve recruitment and retention of direct-care workers at eight participating long-term-care sites. The union representing the state's independent home-care workers also participated.
Vermont: Empowering Direct-Care Workers Through Education
April 25, 2011 | Program Result Report
"We made sure we developed both centralized and individualized curricula that addressed the needs expressed by each participating site" in the Vermont Better Jobs, Better Care project, said the project director.
Pennsylvania: Forming Regional Coalitions in a Large State
April 25, 2011 | Program Result Report
The lead agency for the 40-member Pennsylvania coalition for the Better Jobs Better Care project divided the state into five regions in order to provide a local focus on long-term care worker issues in the large state.
Iowa: Giving Direct-Care Workers a Voice
April 25, 2011 | Program Result Report
The Iowa Better Jobs, Better Care project involved a 20-member coalition and 13 long-term-care nursing facilities and home care agencies in developing, implementing and evaluating the practice interventions.