Nursing Home and Long-Term Care Initiative
The Nursing Home and Long Term Care Initiative is directed at contributing to efforts at the national and state levels to improve the quality of care and quality of life for residents in nursing homes and protecting nursing home residents from abuse and neglect. This initiative currently consists of the following projects: (1) the Nursing Home Collaborative, (2) nursing home staffing and training, (3) regulation of nursing homes and needs of residents with dementia, and (4) nursing home culture change and companion animals.
Projects
Nursing Home Collaborative
The NHLP Resource Center is a participant in the Nursing Home Collaborative (NHC) project, a national effort to improve the quality of care provided in nursing homes to very frail elders with complex and unstable health care needs.
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Nursing Home Staffing and Training
The NHLP Resource Center in collaboration with Hartford Center of Geriatric Nursing Excellence (HCGNE) at the University of Iowa College of Nursing has conducted a project on nursing home staffing and training. There is widespread recognition that deficiencies in the quality of care and quality of life in nursing homes is due, at least in part, to a lack of adequately trained nursing staff.
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Regulation of Nursing Homes and the Needs of Residents with Dementia
The NHLP Resource Center in collaboration with Hartford Center of Geriatric Nursing Excellence (HCGNE) at the University of Iowa College of Nursing is conducting a project on regulation of nursing homes that admit and care for individuals with Alzheimer’s disease and other types of dementia.
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Nursing Home Culture Change and Companion Animals: The Regulatory Framework
The NHLP Resource Center is conducting a project dealing with the culture change movement and companion animals in nursing homes.
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Long Term Care and Nursing Homes: Links to Resources
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