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February 1, 2004 | Journal Article
While geriatric research has traditionally focused on the diseases and disabilities of old age, recent attention has focused on maintaining well-being. Resilience - defined as the capacity to remain well, recover, or even thrive in the face of adver ...
June 1, 2004 | Program Result Report
Independent Choices: Enhancing Consumer Direction for People with Disabilities was designed to foster the development of consumer-directed home and community-based services for people of all ages with chronic disabilities.
June 1, 2003 | Program Result Report
Investigators at the Johns Hopkins University Institute for Policy Studies examined the relative cost-effectiveness of different housing configurations for people with chronic mental illness. They also looked at the relationship between housing and neighborhood features and client outcomes (such as costs of care and length of time at one residence).
January 1, 2010 | Journal Article
Consumer-directed long-term care service programs give participants the flexibility they want, while reducing unmet need for home and community-based services and supports. Their experiences offer valuable insights, guidance and encouragement to other states contemplating consumer-directed service expansions.
June 28, 2011 | Story
INQRI-funded study on using nurse leadership to help ensure adoption of "function focused care" will be disseminated to 20 Baltimore-area assisted living facilities.
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Cash & Counseling is a voluntary and market-based and solution that helps our elderly population plan and budget the services they want and require.
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To foster the efforts of local public-private partnerships to improve long-term care and supportive services systems for older adults.
January 13, 2011 | Program Result Report
From 2007 to 2010, a team of researchers at Yale University School of Medicine conducted a study examining how both older adults and clinicians view the tradeoffs faced by patients facing multiple medical conditions.
June 1, 2001 | Program Result Report
In 1999, the Center on Self-Determination of the Oregon Institute on Disability and Development at Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland, supported a 120-person summit conference.
September 30, 2000 | Program Result Report
The Senior Adult Day Program in Fort Worth, Texas, marketed itself to referral sources and expanded its service offerings, thereby doubling its enrollment, while significantly increasing the portion of its revenues derived from increased client fees.