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June 1, 2008 | Journal Article
This article describes how measures of staff turnover among long-term care workers are calculated differently by different provider organizations, which makes evaluating interventions designed to reduce staff turnover difficult. The authors urge for consistency across organizations.
July 1, 2008 | Journal Article
As part of the Better Jobs Better Care (BJBC) demonstration, direct care workers were asked for recommendations on how to improve their jobs. Across work settings, workers specified better pay and improved working relationships as key recommendations.
July 1, 2008 | Journal Article
Examining the Better Jobs Better Care demonstration illustrates the importance of resources and strong leadership in successful implementation of a workforce demonstration project.
August 1, 2008 | Journal Article
In nursing homes nurses and aides play a crucial role in whether, and for how long, residents receive hospice care at the end of life, according to one nongeneralizable study that calls for better staff training.
December 1, 2007 | Journal Article
The high rate of turnover among the ranks of direct care workers in the long-term care arena was explored in this study.
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.
December 1, 2006 | Program Result
Thomas's RWJF audience included program officer David C. Colby, Ph.D., a member of what was then the foundation's Supportive Services Team. The team's portfolio included long-term care, and Colby was on the lookout for promising new approaches that ...
December 1, 2006 | Program Result
Thomas's RWJF audience included program officer David C. Colby, Ph.D., a member of what was then the foundation's Supportive Services Team. The team's portfolio included long-term care, and Colby was on the lookout for promising new approaches that ...
March 1, 2005 | Program Result
From 1988 through 2003, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) supported the Development and Implementation of a Quality Improvement System for Home Health Care. The effort comprised six projects and was designed to improve the quality of home health, long-term and ambulatory care, and to study methods to improve health care quality in these settings.
March 22, 2005 | Program Result
The New Jersey Office for the Ombudsman for the Institutionalized Elderly, in collaboration with the Stein Ethics Network at the Cooper Health System in Camden, N.J., developed and organized the New Jersey Long-Term Care Ethics Network.