Save on Unemployment Claims Costs, Plus
Whether you’re a tax-rated employer who recently received a notice of first quarter unemployment taxes payable to the state, or you’re a direct reimbursing employer looking to ensure financial stability, UST has a solution...
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...
Promising Practices Winners That Are Reshaping the Aging Services [Field]
Explore some fascinating innovative practices that earned Promising Practices Awards in 2016. Award recipients include a senior living community that opened a brain health center to fill a need in their region, and a...
MDS Questions? Email Georgina
LeadingAge Kansas members are welcome to email Georgina Munguya, LeadingAge Kansas contract consultant, with MDS-related questions.
Rethinking Ageist Marketing Imagery
View this QuickCast to learn how to be more intentional about using authentic images of older adults in community websites and marketing materials rather than relying on stock photography to depict older consumers.
Potpourri of Resources
The following resources from around the internet may be helpful in your work.
The Surprising Cause of Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia--the importance of oral care while in the hospitalNon-ventilator health care-associated pneumonia (NV-HAP): Best practices for prevention...
Turning Negative Thinkers Into Positive Ones
Barbara Fredrickson, a psychologist at the University of North Carolina, has done extensive research on fostering positive emotions, in particular her theory that accumulating “micro-moments of positivity,” like my daily interaction with children, can, over...
Poll Finds, Despite Preference, Older Adults Unprepared to Age at Home
The National Poll on Healthy Aging released this week found that many people in their 50s, 60s, and 70s need to do more to modify their homes or plan for services they may need to age...
Coming Soon: Phase 2 RoP Toolkit
LeadingAge National is working with Pathway Health to develop checklists, templates and other resources to support care centers with Phase 2 of the revised Requirements of Participation. LeadingAge Kansas will supplement the materials with...
Just Released: LeadingAge Ziegler 200
Last week, Ziegler and LeadingAge released the 19th Edition of the LeadingAge Ziegler 200 (LZ 200) publication. The report details the nation’s 200 largest nonprofit senior living providers, as well as relevant business trends for the...
Resources for Dementia Care
Here are a few resources that might be helpful in dementia care.
Living Well with Dementia in the Community
Millennials and Dementia Caregiving in the United States
Preventing Cognitive Decline and Dementia: A Way...
Updated List of HIM Consultants from KHIMA
We recently received an updated list of Medical Records/HIM Consultants from the Kansas Health Information Management Association specializing in long-term care. View the list.