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IFAS Awarded $500,000 Contract from AHRQ to Study Disability

Posted: June 4, 2008
The American Association of Homes & Services for the Aging (AAHSA) has been awarded a contract from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, which will allow its research division, the Institute for the Future of Aging Services (IFAS) to conduct a clinical trial to accelerate translation of research on exercise in old age into practice in continuing care retirement communities (CCRC).

IFAS Study Shows Sleep Apnea is Virtually Undocumented among U.S. Nursing Home Residents

Posted: May 18, 2008
A new IFAS report, Documentation of Sleep Apnea in Nursing Homes: United States 2004, reveals that in 2004, only 0.5% of U.S. nursing home residents had sleep apnea documented as a medical problem.

Stone Presents Testimony at Senate Special Committee on Aging

Posted: April 23, 2008
Dr. Robyn Stone, executive director of IFAS, testified before the Senate Special Committee on Aging. In her testimony, Stone makes recommendations for improving the long-term care workforce crisis. Stone lays out five goals around which to organize workforce improvement.

Nurse Leadership Award Call for Nominations

Posted: March 26, 2008
The Institute for the Future of Aging Services (IFAS) is pleased to announce a call for nominations for the 3rd Annual Joan Anne McHugh Award for Leadership in Long-Term Care Nursing. This award recognizes nurses who provide excellent clinical care, while demonstrating leadership and a commitment to the field of long-term care nursing.

IFAS Examines New Initiative to Support Aging in Place

Posted: March 14, 2008
IFAS will be conducting an evaluation of Lutheran Services in America and Thrivent Financial for Lutherans Foundation's Aging in Community Initiative (ACI). The initiative's overall goal is to increase the ability of aging individuals to remain in their homes and communities despite the disabling consequences of aging and illness.

New House Calls Guide Links Affordable Senior Housing and Medical House Call Practices
Posted: March 11, 2008
IFAS has developed a guide that helps those who manage senior housing properties understand the goals of house call programs and how they operate, the type of patients they serve and the potential benefits of partnering with these programs.

New IFAS Report Examines Diabetes in U.S. Nursing Homes
Posted: March 4, 2008
IFAS has published a new report based on analysis of the 2004 National Nursing Home Survey (NNHS). This report shows that 1 in 4 U.S. nursing home residents aged 65 and older has diabetes. This report also examined the association between diabetes and ethnicity, activities of daily living, source of admission, payment sources, length of stay (LOS), pressure ulcers, emergency department visits, and medication usage.

IFAS Partners with IAHSA for International LTC Workforce Study
Posted: February 29, 2008
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.

2007 McHugh Award for LTC Nursing
Posted: November 9, 2007
At a general assembly session during the AAHSA Annual Meeting in Orlando, FL., the National Advisory Board of the Joan Anne McHugh Academy presented Patricia Wilbur, a charge nurse at The Cedars in Portland, Maine, the Joan Anne McHugh Award for Leadership in long-term care nursing.

New IFAS Brochure: Bridging Research Practice & Policy
Posted: Oct. 18, 2007
IFAS has a new brochure. Bridging Research Practice & Policy is an eight-page overview of how IFAS, the applied research institute of the American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging, AAHSA, is turning evidence-based research into better practice and policy. Download Brochure

New Langeloth Foundation Award to study family caregivers in low-income housing
Posted: Oct. 15, 2007
IFAS has just received a grant award of $175,000 from the Jacob and Valeria Langeloth Foundation to study the role of family caregivers in helping independent living residents age in place. This project will develop and evaluate a training program to strengthen the role of family caregivers of low- and modest-income older adults living in independent, publicly subsidized housing communities.

NIA Award
Posted: October 11, 2007
IFAS has received funding from the National Institute on Aging to conduct a pilot study to evaluate the acceptability and prognostic value of the Short Physical Performance Battery (SPPB) in older residents and the staff of independent housing and assisted living settings in a CCRC.

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Events

IFAS Presents Findings from Case Studies of State-Level Initiatives at AAHSA Spring Conference
Date: March 31, 2008
Location: Washington, DC

IFAS will reveal the findings from seven states included in its State Investment in Culture Change Case Study Presentation during the American Association of Homes and Services'(AAHSA) Future of Aging Services Conference and Exposition.

IFAS Convenes State Culture Change Meeting at AAHSA Annual Meeting
Date: Jan. 11, 2008
Location: Orlando, FL
As part of a grant from The Commonwealth Fund, IFAS convened a meeting that brought together state representatives, providers, and a provider association to discuss state activities in culture change.

Workforce Cabinet Begins Deliberations
Date: Jan. 14, 2008
Location: Washington, DC
There's probably not a long-term care provider in the country that hasn't struggled with high turnover or isn't challenged by the difficulties of attracting new employees to the field of aging services. The so-called "workforce crisis" is well-documented and...

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