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Improving Nursing Home Care Quality

Curates evidence on improving nursing home care quality and explores practical tools that support effective implementation of care and services that are more person-centered and improve outcomes for nursing home residents.

Collection

November 2023

Dementia Care Navigation: Building Toward a Common Definition, Key Principles, and Outcomes

An expert panel proposed key principles for designing care navigation programs for persons living with dementia and their caregivers.

Peer-Reviewed Article

April 2023

Hospice Improves Care Quality for Older Adults with Dementia in Their Last Month of Life

While the Medicare hospice benefit has historically been designed to meet the needs of patients with cancer, people with dementia and their caregivers experience better outcomes when enrolled in hospice.

Peer-Reviewed Article

June 2022

Meeting the Challenge of Caring for Persons Living with Dementia and Their Care Partners and Caregivers: A Way Forward

Evaluates the evidence on interventions for people living with dementia, their care partners, and caregivers to help identify what interventions are ready for broad implementation.

Brief/Report

February 2021

Medical Care at Home Comes of Age

Provides an overview of home-based medical care models, the patients that they serve, and their robust evidence base.

Brief/Report

January 2021

Providing Primary Care to Homebound Patients: UCSF Health's Care at Home Program

This case study highlights an accountable care organization’s home-based primary care program for homebound older adults, with early analysis of outcomes showing reduced acute care utilization.

Case Example

August 2020

ACO Serious Illness Care: Survey and Case Studies Depict Current Challenges and Future Opportunities

How ACOs are addressing serious illness.

Peer-Reviewed Article

June 2019

Innovations in Medicare Advantage to Improve Care for Seriously Ill Patients

This resource describes how MA could lead the way in diffusing new care and payment models.

Brief/Report

July 2018

High-Cost Dual Eligibles' Service Use Demonstrates the Need for Supportive and Palliative Models of Care

Describes the needs of distinct subpopulations within the dually eligible population with highly complex needs, along with opportunities for tailored interventions that may reduce health care spending.

Peer-Reviewed Article

July 2017

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Improving Nursing Home Care Quality

Dementia Care Navigation: Building Toward a Common Definition, Key Principles, and Outcomes

Hospice Improves Care Quality for Older Adults with Dementia in Their Last Month of Life

Meeting the Challenge of Caring for Persons Living with Dementia and Their Care Partners and Caregivers: A Way Forward

Medical Care at Home Comes of Age

Providing Primary Care to Homebound Patients: UCSF Health's Care at Home Program

ACO Serious Illness Care: Survey and Case Studies Depict Current Challenges and Future Opportunities

Innovations in Medicare Advantage to Improve Care for Seriously Ill Patients

High-Cost Dual Eligibles' Service Use Demonstrates the Need for Supportive and Palliative Models of Care