Organizational Assessment & Benchmarking for LeadingAge Members
Thriving in today’s environment requires a deeper understanding of how your organization can leverage its strengths and prioritize opportunities. That’s why LeadingAge is partnering with Integrated Governance Solutions (IGS) to provide LeadingAge members customized...
Trauma-Informed Care Resource for Your Consideration
Here’s what one person-centered long-term care community uses to evaluate residents upon admission. Read the article.
Recent Research on Developing a Set of Uniform Outcome Measures for Adult Day Services
We wanted to share with this group an article published in May 2018 on adult day services published in the Journal of Applied Gerontology. The article is included in the attached PDF.
The article discusses...
Resources for Dementia Care
Pre-recorded Webinar: Staying Ahead: Dementia Care for Skilled Nursing and Assisted Living with Teepa Snow
meetme: The MoMA Alzheimer’s Project: Making Art Accessible to People with Dementia
Molecular link between aging and neurodegeneration
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Trust, Transparency and Leadership: Members Share Keys to Achieving High Nursing Home Resident Bi-Valent...
As part of LeadingAge’s participation in the All Hands on Deck campaign to increase nursing home resident bivalent booster uptake, we submit weekly reports to HHS demonstrating members’ progress. The news is positive: as...
CLA Has Developed an Expense Tracking Tool to Help Economic Relief Fund Recipients Stay...
Congress has provided trillions in economic relief to help businesses get through the financial challenges brought by COVID-19. These economic relief opportunities have rules for how they can be used, especially for health care...
2020 County Health Rankings
2020 County Health Rankings produced by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, includes ranking on a variety of health outcomes and health factors for Kansas counties (with national comparison.) The data has been produced for...
LTSS Resource Center Update
Check out the latest blog and research information from the LeadingAge LTSS Center @UMASS Boston
Who Benefits When Residents Serve as Mentors? Everybody.
Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Asset Ownership Among Older Adults
Harvard...
Long-Term Care Providers Should Conduct a COVID-19 Preparedness Exercise
By Yolanda Sims, JD, MHAKAMMCO Loss Prevention and Risk Management Advisor
Long-term care providers can improve the knowledge and training of staff by conducting a COVID-19 tabletop emergency exercise. A tabletop exercise utilizes a scenario...
Dementia Resources and Articles
Inside Mayo Clinic's 5-step process for handling biased patients
Caregiver depression tied to more ER visits for dementia patients
Memory Cafe: A Social Group For People With Dementia And Their Caregivers
Sex and...
Resources for Dementia
Cheerful outlook linked to better memory in later yearsExercise may keep mild cognitive impairment from advancing to dementia
November PEAK Newsletter
See this month's edition of the PEAK Newsletter. Topics include:
PEAK Advisory Team Members and the Future of PEAK 2.0PEAK Award WinnersCOVID and PCC Resources Crucial Conversatons: Grow Your Team’s Skills