Research has helped promote housing plus services models and has demonstrated their value. Turning promise into policy is the greatest challenge. A comprehensive planning process prompted leaders at A.M. McGregor Home to make significant changes to their organization’s strategic direction in 1999. That decision had a direct and long-lasting impact…...

Participating in research projects offers great benefits, but providers should make sure they’re prepared for what the work entails. “There’s that trifecta of process, culture and discernment that needs to go into it. You need a culture of inquiry, trust with stakeholders, and you have to think there’s a benefit.…...

How can providers make evidence-based practices work for them, once brought into their own communities? Professional researchers give advice on what constitutes good research and how implementation challenges can be overcome. There is little doubt that evidence-based practices are becoming essential to the work LeadingAge members do. These are practices…...

A conversation with former LeadingAge CEO Len Fishman about why we must embrace research. This issue of LeadingAge magazine is concerned with research, viewed from many angles. Why should providers adopt evidence-based practices? Should they actively seek to participate in research? What can research offer our field? Will evidence-based practices…...

Input from an advisory board of older adults—on communication strategies, research goals and priorities—is helping to improve research on aging. Over the past several years, an innovative project called the Bureau of Sages has involved older adults, including many who are functionally or cognitively limited, as active participants in designing…...