Resources for Quality

  The Change Package is a toolkit that was developed by the National Nursing Home Quality Collaborative to assist providers with creating lasting change and high performance. It includes seven key strategies, with numerous supporting change concepts...

Trivia Day, January 4th  Clean Off Your Desk Day, January 9th  National Activity Professional Week  Have Fun at Work Day, January 28th  January is National Intimate Partner Violence Prevention Month  National Wear Red...

  CAST (LeadingAge’s Center for Aging Services Technology) has released a Cybersecurity White Paper and a Benchmarking Questionnaire to help members understand what cybersecurity threats are, how to mitigate risks, and how to respond if attacked. The Benchmarking Questionnaire will help...

  Medicare Hospital Compare Medicare Long-Term Care Hospital (LTCH) Compare Website  Medicare Physician Compare Medicare In-Patient Rehabilitation Facility Compare

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...

Read more about the basic responsibilities of nonprofit boards, and how to become a more effective nonprofit board.

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has a great free training for long-term care providers to use to in their building about handwashing. Check it out and use it for your next inservice!  

Check out this great resource on governance versus management.  

Holistic symptom management in geriatric care, advanced illness, and dementia care is an ever-increasing focus for hospitals and long-term care providers as the population continues to age. Read more of this Today's Geriatric Medicine article...

Neuroscience Discovers 5 Things That Will Make You Happy Improve the cognitive function of older adults by encouraging certain lifestyle behaviors The Five Senses Study LGBT Older Adults and Social Isolation Gamification Is...

Check out this simple board self-evaluation tool that you can use with your own boards.

Check out this helpful handout from Dementia and Alzheimer's expert, Teepa Snow.