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Dec 5, 2008

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Long Term Care

Organizations and resources on long term care, skilled nursing facilities, and public health care for the elderly and disabled.

The Alzheimer’s Association

Description: The Alzheimer's Association is the largest national, voluntary health organization supporting Alzheimer's research and care. Includes information about the disease, programs and services, and advocacy efforts.

American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging

Description: AAHSA is committed to advancing the vision of healthy, affordable, ethical long-term care. It serves its members by representing the concerns of not-for-profit organizations that serve the elderly through interaction with Congress and federal agencies.

American College of Health Care Administrators

Description: ACHCA is the professional society for administrators in long-term care, offering excellent educational programming, career development opportunities, and certification in a variety of positions.

American Health Care Association

Description: Long term care industry trade group providing consumer information on services, financing, public policy, nursing facilities, assisted living and subacute care.

American Physical Therapy Association - Geriatrics

Description:Educational material on physical therapy for the elderly. Listserve.

Nursing Home Compare Web Site

Description: CMS is proposing to include information on a number of quality indicators on its Nursing Home Compare Web page and recently sought feedback from the nursing home industry on the idea. CMS proposed posting information on restraints, pressure ulcers, behavior, depression with no treatment, anti-psychotics, and decline in activities of daily living. Currently, CMS posts information on individual nursing homes on its Web site based on resident characteristics obtained from the Online Survey Certification and Reporting (OSCAR) database. CMS now proposes replacing that data with QI data drawn from the Minimum Data Set.

snfinfo.com

Description: The “long-term care information supersite.”

US Dept. of Health and Human Services Administration on Aging

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