Quick Article on Improving Practice to Reduce Falls
Falls, typical incidents among older adults in the nursing home, are associated with debility, functional impairment, and mortality. Falls resulting in injury and medical complication have proven to be costly, and once the elderly...
Hand-in-Hand Dementia Training Series
The mission of the Hand-in-Hand training is to provide nursing homes with a high-quality training program that emphasizes person-centered care in the care of persons with dementia and the prevention of abuse.
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CDC Toolkit to Increase Influenza Vaccination among Health Care Personnel in Long-term Care Settings
This comprehensive toolkit includes a number of resources intended to help long-term care providers, agency or corporation owners and administrators provide access to influenza vaccination for their workforce and to help any employer of...
MDS Questions? Email Georgina
LeadingAge Kansas members are welcome to email Georgina Munguya, LeadingAge Kansas contract consultant, with MDS-related questions.
Board Resources: Ethos of Transparency
The Ethos of Transparency is the latest topic of our great board resource “For Your Board”. This publication is for members to use as education for their Boards of Directors. You can download a printable...
LeadingAge National’s “What Have We Done for You Lately”
Here’s an overview of our work for you in August 2019.
Senior Housing Co-Ops
Senior Housing Co-Ops: A Growing Trend and Possible Way to Serve Middle Market
Zvago, a LeadingAge Member Senior Co-Op
Benefits of Comprehensive Long-Term Care Culture Change
A 2017 study by the LeadingAge LTSS Center @UMass Boston found that comprehensive adoption of person-centered care and the household model can enhance the interactions between nursing home residents and their care partners, improve...
Palliative Care for People with Dementia Guidelines
CaringKind's Palliative Care for Advanced Dementia: Training and Implementation, addresses the need for improving the quality-of-life and care for residents diagnosed with advanced dementia who live in nursing homes, through a program that generates...
Research Snapshot: Intergenerational Programming in Senior Housing
During 2017, LeadingAge and Generations United conducted a year-long study focused on exploring the characteristics, benefits, implementation challenges, and promising practices associated with intergenerational programming in senior housing communities. This snapshot provides a brief...
“Right-Sizing” Nursing Care Settings in a Life Plan Community
From their inception, life plan communities, also known as continuing care retirement communities or CCRCs, typically featured an assortment of independent living residences and a nursing home. The nursing home was largely intended for...
Drug Diversion Pathway and Support Tools
New long-term care focused Drug Diversion Prevention Pathway and support tools to help you increase awareness, assess your processes, create individual plans for intervention implementation, and measure your outcomes. It includes leadership guidance and education, curriculum and competency,...