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By Steven Syre Marc Cohen, co-director of the LeadingAge LTSS Center @UMass Boston, will lead a group of 14 experts focusing on LTSS financing. Marc Cohen, co-director of the LeadingAge LTSS Center @UMass Boston, has been named co-chair of a study panel to help states design state-based social insurance programs…...

By Geralyn Magan A new research study led by the SEIU 775 Benefits Group will shed light on the “authentic experience” of home care workers by visiting, listening to, and observing one worker at a time. LeadingAge and the University of Wisconsin-Madison are partners in the study. There are only…...

By Geralyn Magan Eaton Senior Communities has embraced wellness coaching as a “fundamental part of what we do,” says Chief Operating Officer Diana Delgado. The coaching model helped 2 team members at the Lakewood, CO, community earn the 2017 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Award for Health Equity. Residents at Eaton…...

By Geralyn Magan Launched in July 2011, SASH is designed to connect older adults living in or near affordable senior housing sites with community-based health care and support services. Growth in annual Medicare expenditures was slower for older adults who participated in Support and Services at Home (SASH) panels that…...

By Steven Syre During a new, 2-year project, the LeadingAge LTSS Center @UMass Boston will help bring the voices of older adults to the process of developing applied research studies. Amy Eisenstein had a powerful idea. She wanted to see what would happen if researchers made a point of reaching…...

By Robyn I. Stone Next Avenue invited its 2017 Influencers in Aging to blog about the one thing they would like to change about aging in America. Robyn Stone, senior vice president of research at LeadingAge, and one of this year’s Influencers in Aging, wrote this post for Next Avenue.…...

By Geralyn Magan Researchers have determined the association between a nursing home’s level of person-centered care implementation and resident-reported satisfaction with their quality of life, quality of care, and quality of services. Residents of nursing homes that have fully implemented person-centered care are more likely to give high ratings to…...

By Steven Syre New research led by an assistant professor of gerontology at the University of Massachusetts Boston may support calls favoring public reporting, at the individual nursing-home level, of quality measures based on race and ethnicity. Reports examining racial and ethnic disparities in the quality of nursing home care…...

Robyn Stone reflected on her 40-year career after being awarded the 2016 Maxwell A. Pollack Award for Productive Aging by the Gerontological Society of America. LeadingAge Senior Vice President of Research Robyn Stone sat down this summer with Brian W. Lindberg, policy advisor to the Gerontological Society of America (GSA), to…...