Americans are living longer, yet more people can expect to have some sort of disability in their later years of life. Innovative approaches to long-term care, such as re-imagining nursing home care, may improve quality and provide more choices.
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Cash & Counseling
National Program
Cash & Counseling is a voluntary and market-based and solution that helps our elderly population plan and budget the services they want and require.
Pilot Program Trains Certified Home Health Aides to Provide Nursing Care to Patients at Home
October 4, 2011 | Program Result
Under the state of New Jersey's Nurse Delegation Pilot Program, registered nurses delegated specific health care tasks performed in the homes of some Medicaid beneficiaries with disabilities or chronic conditions to certified home health aides.
Hiring Freeze and Lack of Medicaid Waiver Snarls N.J. Program to Promote Long-Term Care Insurance for the Elderly
May 1, 2006 | Program Result
The New Jersey Department of Human Services created a design for a public-private partnership in which policyholders would be covered under Medicaid when private insurance expired, with asset protection equal to the amount of qualified insurance.
A Moral Compass in Navigating Long-Term Care Decisions in New Jersey
March 22, 2005 | Program Result
The New Jersey Office for the Ombudsman for the Institutionalized Elderly, in collaboration with the Stein Ethics Network at the Cooper Health System in Camden, N.J., developed and organized the New Jersey Long-Term Care Ethics Network.
National Study Looks at Seniors in Assisted Living
March 30, 2004 | Program Result
From 1998 to 2002, researchers at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health led by Rosalie A. Kane, D.S.W., conducted a national research study of apartment-style assisted living for seniors.
Public TV Series Examines Health Care Issues in New Jersey
January 1, 2003 | Program Result
RWJF's grant to the Institute for Health Care Policy and Aging Research at Rutgers supported a special three-part installment of "Caucus" entitled "New Jersey's Health Care Crisis."
Each Nursing Specialty Needs Its Own Fine-Tuned Forecasting Software
July 1, 2000 | Program Result
The Greater Cleveland Hospital Association developed a PC-based computer program that forecasts the demand for nurses.
New Jersey Visiting Nurse Association Uses Web to Help Elderly Manage Chronic Health Conditions from Home
May 16, 2007 | Program Result
CentraState Healthcare System, the Visiting Nurse Association of Central Jersey and the Monmouth County Office on Aging developed and tested a Web-based disease-management service for older adults who needed home care services.