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IFAS<em>age</em> Newsletter

Read the Summer 2008 Issue of IFASage!

IFASage is a new quarterly e-newsletter from the Institute for the Future of Aging Services (IFAS) at AAHSA. [more]

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Developing a Quality Workforce: Current Projects

  • International Long-Term Care Workforce Study

    IFAS is working together with the International Association of Homes and Services for the Aging (IAHSA) to conduct a cross-national study of the long-term care and home care paraprofessional workforce in countries throughout Europe. The project has two primary goals. The first is to help better describe this sector of the European aging services workforce as well as to better understand the issues these workers face and how these issues differ across countries. [more]

  • Geriatric Team Leadership Project

    IFAS is collaborating with the University of Kansas Medical Center (KUMC) to evaluate and disseminate findings on the Geriatric Team Leadership program, which teaches nurses how to transfer evidence-based clinical knowledge and skills into practice in geriatric long-term care settings. The program also provides advanced clinical and leadership training to certified nursing assistants. KUMC will be working with several providers in the Kansas area to provide the training. [more]

  • Better Jobs Better Care

    Better Jobs Better Care (BJBC) is a four-year, $15.5 million research and demonstration program created to support changes in long-term care policy and provider practice that help improve the instability and chronic shortages of frontline workers across all long-term care settings. [more]

  • LVN Leadership Enrichment and Development (LVN LEAD)

    IFAS is developing, piloting and evaluating a leadership training program designed to help licensed vocational nurses (LVNs) be more effective leaders and supervisors of frontline care workers. Aging Services of California and the University of Wisconsin, Madison School of Nursing are partners on this project. [more]

  • The Long-Term Care Workforce: Can the Crisis Be Fixed?

    IFAS prepared this briefing paper for the National Commission for Quality Long-Term Care to address long-term care workforce problems affecting frail and disabled older adults in nursing homes, assisted living, other residential facilities and home and community-based settings. [more]

  • National Direct Service Workforce Resource Center

    IFAS provides technical assistance to states and other organizations seeking to improve the recruitment and retention of workers who care for people with disabilities. [more]

  • Impact Evaluation of PREPARE, an Emergency Preparedness National Training Program for Long-Term Care

    IFAS is evaluating the impact of Mather LifeWays' PREPARE program on aging services organizations' state of emergency preparedness. [more]

  • Extended Care Career Ladder Initiative (ECCLI)

    IFAS partnered with the Gerontology Institute at the University of Massachusetts Boston to evaluate ECCLI, a project designed to improve the recruitment and retention of certified nursing assistants through flexible educational opportunities and incentives. [more]

  • Joan Anne McHugh Long-Term Care Nursing Academy

    The McHugh Long-Term Care Nursing Academy was established at IFAS in 2005 to support quality nurse managers in long-term care settings. [more]

  • Geriatric Education Master Mentorship (GEMM) Program

    IFAS is collaborating with the University of Kansas Medical Center to evaluate and disseminate findings on GEMM, which teaches registered nurses how to use evidence-based clinical knowledge and skills in their practice in geriatric care settings through master mentor training. [more]

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