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Direct linkTomioka, Michiyo; Braun, Kathryn L.; Compton, Merlita; Tanoue, Leslie – Gerontologist, 2012
Purpose of the Study: Stanford's Chronic Disease Self-Management Program (CDSMP) has been proven to increase patients' ability to manage distress. We describe how we replicated CDSMP in Asian and Pacific Islander (API) communities. Design and Methods: We used the "track changes" tool to deconstruct CDSMP into its various components…
Descriptors: Exercise, Self Management, Self Efficacy, Pacific Islanders
Judge, Katherine S.; Bass, David M.; Snow, A. Lynn; Wilson, Nancy L.; Morgan, Robert; Looman, Wendy J.; McCarthy, Catherine; Kunik, Mark E. – Gerontologist, 2011
Purpose: This article provides a detailed description of a telephone-based care coordination intervention, Partners in Dementia Care (PDC), for veterans with dementia and their family caregivers. Essential features of PDC included (a) formal partnerships between Veterans Affairs (VA) medical centers and Alzheimer's Association Chapters; (b) a…
Descriptors: Medical Services, Intervention, Dementia, Caregivers
Simmons, Sandra F.; Bertrand, Rosanna; Shier, Victoria; Sweetland, Rebecca; Moore, Therese J.; Hurd, Donna T.; Schnelle, John F. – Gerontologist, 2007
Purpose: The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality sponsored a nationwide study to evaluate the federal paid feeding assistant (PFA) regulation that allows nursing homes to hire single-task workers to provide feeding assistance to nursing home residents. Organizers designed the PFA regulation…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Program Implementation, Nurses, Nursing Homes
Hawes, Catherine; Fries, Brant E.; James, Mary L.; Guihan, Marylou – Gerontologist, 2007
Purpose: The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has adopted two functional assessment systems that guide care planning: one for nursing home residents (the Resident Assessment Instrument [RAI]) and a compatible one for home care clients (RAI-HC). The purpose of this article is to describe the RAI-HC (often referred to as the Minimum Data Set-Home…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Veterans, Nursing Homes, Residential Care
Peer reviewedTeri, Linda; Huda, Piruz; Gibbons, Laura; Young, Heather; van Leynseele, June – Gerontologist, 2005
Purpose: This article describes, and provides data on, an innovative, comprehensive, dementia-specific training program designed to teach direct care staff in assisted living residences to improve care and reduce problems in residents with dementia. Design and Methods: STAR--which stands for Staff Training in Assisted living Residences- provides…
Descriptors: Dementia, Job Satisfaction, Disabilities, Health Facilities
Rabig, Judith; Thomas, William; Kane, Rosalie A.; Cutler, Lois J.; McAlilly, Steve – Gerontologist, 2006
Purpose: We present the concept of the Green House, articulated by William Thomas as a radically changed, "deinstitutionalized" nursing home well before its first implementation, and we describe and discuss implications from the first Green Houses in Tupelo, Mississippi. Design and Methods: Green Houses are small, self-contained houses…
Descriptors: Nursing Homes, Allied Health Personnel, Older Adults, Quality of Life
