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Baltimore Elderly in "Safe at Home" Program Experience Fewer Falls, Better Health

February 21, 2007 | Program Result Report

A research team from Johns Hopkins University conducted an evaluation of Safe at Home - a program that provided a coordinated set of services to help the low-income elderly continue living in their own homes.

Training Hispanic Home Health Aides Provides Health Care - and Jobs

January 29, 2002 | Program Result Report

The Hispanic Family Center of Southern New Jersey, located in Camden, N.J., developed the Community Health Group program.

Better Jobs Better Care: Building a Strong Long-Term Care Workforce

April 27, 2011 | Program Result Report

Better Jobs Better Care supported changes in long-term-care policy and provider practices to reduce high vacancy and turnover rates among the paraprofessionals who provide direct care to older adults and to improve the quality of that care.

Consortium Training Program for Home Health and Nursing Assistants Scores High on Completion, Certification and Retention Rates

May 30, 2009 | Program Result Report

The Somerset County Training Consortium conducted a training course aimed at expanding the number of certified home-health aides and certified nurse assistants available to provide direct care in home, assisted living and nursing home settings.

Love, Money, or Flexibility

July 1, 2008 | Journal Article

This article examined In-Home Supportive Service workers across eight counties in California. Study participants were 2,260 workers who completed a survey focused on reasons workers took or stayed in jobs.

Retention of Paid Related Caregivers

July 1, 2008 | Journal Article

A study of related caregivers explores characteristics of those that stay or leave the direct care workforce. Over 40 percent of Leavers would consider future direct care work with people to whom they were not related.

Additional Funding to Coordinate Services for Elderly in Cincinnati Doesn't Improve Health Care

August 1, 2003 | Program Result Report

The Council on Aging of the Cincinnati Area developed a project to enhance care for the frail elderly by linking acute and long-term care services and improving communication and coordination among providers.

Home Alone: Hospice Program Helps Elderly Who Don't Have Resident Caregivers

January 29, 2002 | Program Result Report

Samaritan Hospice, located in Moorestown, N.J., started the SOLO Live Alone Program to provide in-home services to elderly patients without resident caregivers in Camden, Burlington, Gloucester and Mercer counties.

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