Recent Projects and Products
Exceptional Care Planning*
With a New York State Health Foundation Cost Effectiveness Grant, the FLTC partnered with twelve NYAHSA Members to test the impact of a more efficient care planning system. The care planning system behind Exceptional Care Planning (ECP) is thought to reduce: the amount of time involved in paperwork on staff efficiency; staff costs; resident care costs; staff retention; and overall facility costs. To view a 40-minute educational module on ECP, click here. For more information on this project, contact abradley@leadingageny.org or for information on available fee-for-service training on ECP, please contact efrost@leadingageny.org. *Update! Online registration is now open for complimentary in-person and web based training on ECP, to be offered in spring 2012. To learn more, visit our current and upcoming research page.
Bathing Without a Battle (BWOB)
Bathing Without a Battle (BWOB), a New York State Department of Health Dementia Grant, is an evidence-based, educational program, designed for direct-care staff members who are charged with bathing aggressive and agitated residents diagnosed with dementia. Education focuses on alternative bathing techniques to ease resident anxiety and promote comfort. The grant tested the impact of this program in five LeadingAge New York nursing homes using intervention and wait comparison sites. Research analysis and evaluation is being conducted by Brown University's . For more information on Bathing Without a Battle, please go to http://www.bathingwithoutabattle.unc.edu/ or contact FLTC Project Manager, Karen Revitt at krevitt@leadingageny.org.
Intergenerational Service Learning: Linking Three Generations
With a grant from the Corporation for National and Community Service, the Foundation for Long Term Care partnered with five colleges in New York State (Ithaca College, Cornell University, SUNY Brockport, SUNY Stony Brook, and Molloy College) to engage college students and older adults in service together in the community. Intergenerational teams jointly experienced classroom instruction and formed intergenerational service teams to benefit older adults through eldercare service settings in their communities. The FLTC has created a series of eight educational web-modules about intergenerational service learning (IGSL), each focusing on unique topics, from an introduction to IGSL, to tips for colleges, recruiting older adults, finding funding, and more, available here: Intergenerational Service Learning: web-modules. For more information on this project, contact krevitt@leadingageny.org
Research to Practice: Pathways to Leadership
With a New York State Health Foundation Special Opportunities grant, "Pathways to Leadership" used the charge nurse peer-mentoring program training materials the FLTC developed with funding from the New York State Dementia Grant. Materials were disseminated to nursing homes in New York State and the FLTC, using a train-the-trainer model, helped homes throughout the state use the program which teaches communication, leadership, and management skills to charge nurses. Contact krevitt@leadingageny.org to request materials, using the Pathways to Leadership Order Form. The free training materials can be ordered for the cost of shipping and handling. For more information on this project, contact krevitt@leadingageny.org
Growing Strong Roots
The basis for Pathways to Leadership, "Growing Strong Roots" is a peer mentoring program for CNAs. Evaluation on Growing Strong Roots showed that the project resulted in an average 15 percent increase in the retention of new CNAs in 11 NYAHSA nursing homes. These nursing homes were participants in a grant funded by the Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation. To learn more about this project, click here, or to order materials, click here. For more information on this project, contact krevitt@leadingageny.org
Caring Communication at the End of Life Manual
This manual, which is now available from the Foundation for Long Term Care, is designed to help those who provide care to nursing home residents at the end of life to communicate better with family members. To learn more, click here. The training materials will be on line shortly. For more information on this project and on fee-for-service training using these materials, contact krevitt@leadingageny.org
