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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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Promoting Nursing Home Quality Improvement: Current Projects

  • Beatitudes Project

    "Palliative Care for Advanced Dementia: A Model Teaching Unit Program" is a program to improve the quality of life for those with dementia and their families. The goal is to create a replicable and practical model of excellent advanced dementia care and to share this model with nursing facilities in Arizona. The project is based at the Beatitudes Campus. [more]

  • Aging in Community Initiative (ACI)

    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.[more]

  • Lutheran Wellspring Alliance of the Carolinas

    IFAS is working with AAHSA members Lutheran Services for the Aging of North Carolina and Lutheran Homes of South Carolina to implement and evaluate the Wellspring model in nine nursing homes. [more]

  • On-Time Quality Improvement for Long-Term Care: Training, Diffusion and Implementation Project Plan

    IFAS is partnering with the Institute for Clinical Outcomes Research on the On-Time Quality Improvement for Long-Term Care program, funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. The program is designed to improve day-to-day practice in nursing homes through the improvement and redesign of workflow. [more]

  • Assessing State Investments in Culture Change

    IFAS is documenting how eight states have promoted, encouraged and supported culture change activities in nursing homes. [more]

  • Abundant Life Design

    IFAS evaluated the implementation of the Catholic Community Care's Abundant Life "Mind Body Spirit" Wellness Model, a quality initiative model implemented by 17 health and human service organizations in northern Ohio to heighten awareness of the mind-body-sprit connection and its influence on whole-person wellness. [more]

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