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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Independent Choices: Enhancing Consumer Direction for People with Disabilities
National Program
Program to foster the development of consumer-directed home and community-based services for people of all ages with chronic disabilities.
Community Partnerships for Older Adults
National Program
To foster the efforts of local public-private partnerships to improve long-term care and supportive services systems for older adults.
Better Jobs, Better Care: Building a Strong Long-Term Care Workforce
National Program
To create changes in policy and practice that will lead to recruitment and retention of high-quality direct care workers in nursing homes and in home- and community-based settings.
Person-Centered Care for Nursing Home Residents
January 7, 2010 | Journal Article
The culture-change movement is a broad-based effort to transform nursing homes from impersonal health care institutions into true person-centered homes offering long-term care services. The movement encompasses almost three decades of consumer advocacy coupled with legal, legislative, and policy work aimed at improving both the quality of care and the quality of life in nursing homes.
New State Strategies to Meet Long-Term Care Needs
January 1, 2010 | Journal Article
Consumer-directed long-term care service programs give participants the flexibility they want, while reducing unmet need for home and community-based services and supports. Their experiences offer valuable insights, guidance and encouragement to other states contemplating consumer-directed service expansions.
University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center: Testing New Measures to Prevent Falls on a Neurosurgery, Neurology and Rehabilitation Unit
May 27, 2010 | Program Result
At the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, falls constituted the second most frequently reported incident category after medication errors.
Three Hospitals in Madison, Wis., Extend the Work of a Falls Team Started by a Patient Safety Collaborative
May 27, 2010 | Program Result
In 2000, the local hospitals and medical groups in Madison, Wis., organized the Madison Patient Safety Collaborative - a formal effort to develop, share and implement patient safety solutions across the community.
Sentara Healthcare-Sentara Virginia Beach General Hospital: Developing and Testing a Tool to Identify Patients at High Risk for Harm From a Fall
May 27, 2010 | Program Result
Sentara Healthcare, an integrated health care organization with eight acute care hospitals in Virginia, initiated a program in 2001 to prevent inpatient falls and fall-related injuries.
Iowa Health System: Implementing Fall Prevention in Pilot Units in Three Hospitals
May 27, 2010 | Program Result
Iowa Health System - an integrated system operating in Iowa and western Illinois - implemented fall prevention in pilot units at three of its hospitals.
James A. Haley Veterans' Hospital: Preventing Injury Falls on Two Medical Nursing Units
May 27, 2010 | Program Result
Staff reviewed the previous 22 injury falls in acute care settings at the James A. Haley Veterans' Hospital in Tampa, Fla.