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Tag: person-centered care
AHCA Announces Nursing Home Quality Winners
The American Health Care Association and the National Center for Assisted Living (AHCA/NCAL) announced the recipients of the 2012 National Quality Award program. A total of 458 skilled nursing or assisted living facilities from across the country earned a Bronze, Silver or Gold from the three-tiered award program which commends...
Quality of Life for Disabled Elderly Tied to Dignity and Autonomy (VIDEO)
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Quality of Life for Disabled Elderly Tied to Dignity and Autonomy
Researchers at the San Francisco VA Medical Center (SFVAMC) and the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), studying multi-cultural residents at San Francisco’s On Lok Lifeways program, concluded that quality of life for disabled elderly people is most closely tied to two factors: a sense of dignity and a sense...
Cirillo Named Channel Partner – Bringing New Solutions to Address Patient Experience
I typically do not write about my personal career here but this post I believe is important. I have been selected Healthcare Channel Partner for CEO2 . My passion is to improve healthcare. My platform of educated aging is what you read about everyday. This is the other side of...
Joint Commission Awards First Disease-Specific Certifications to Nursing Homes
Claremont Rehabilitation and Living Center in Buffalo Grove, Illinois and Forest Villa Nursing Care in Niles, Illinois, became the first nursing homes in the country to be certified under The Joint Commissionäó»s Disease-Specific Care Certification Program.æ This is significant because it adds another level of quality that you can now...
Consumer Survey – We Need Your Help
The Consumer Consortium for Advancing Person-Centered Living is launching the Person-to-Person Network (P2P), a resource for caregivers, families and elders. We need your help. As you seek information or resources to assist you or a loved one with a particular issue or decision you are facing, it is important that...
Healthcare Doesn’t Hit Home Until It’s Personal
We have had some health issues with mom this year. At 89 we almost lost her but she is a trooper. It occurred to me that despite my 26 years in healthcare, I knew little really about the healthcare experience. So here are two blogs I guest wrote. The first...
Sing a New Song – Songwriters Work Educational Foundation
I came across a great find that might be of interest to you. Songwriting Works䋢 Educational Foundation serves hundreds of elders, families and practitioners by pairing professional songwriters with elders to compose original songs. To date, 3,000 participants have composed 300 songs. In their workshops, participants collaborate with professional songwriters...
Person Centered Care Program Gets People Back to Home from Nursing Home
As much as they’d like to think it’s possible, elderly residents in long-term care facilities have come to accept that a nursing home might be the last place they will call home. But a new pilot project, called Project Home, helped 60% of project’s participants transition from long-term care facilities...