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Scripps Gerontology Center Publications: Recent submissions
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Implementation of the 2010 Ohio Nursing Home Family Satisfaction Survey : Research Brief
(2011-05-10)In 2010, the Scripps Gerontology Center conducted the fifth biennial Ohio Nursing Home Family Satisfaction Survey. The year the survey had the largest number of family responses ever, with 97% of facilities participating ... -
Ohio's Aging Network Efforts to Enhance Nursing Home Diversion and Transition
(2011-05-10)This brief report provides preliminary results from an evaluation of Ohio's diversion and transition demonstration program. -
Preparing the Aging Network for Choice for Independence : Title VI Survey Results
(2010-09-22)With a grant from the Administration on Aging, the National Association of Area Agencies on Aging(n4a) partnered with the Scripps Gerontology Center to conduet the 2007 Aging Network Survey of Title VI Native American ... -
Title VI Survey Results [2009]
(2010-09-22)This report provides results from a national survey of the 243 Title VI Native American programs. The survey was designed to access the role of Title VI program in offering services and supports to the elders in their ... -
AAA Caregiving Survey Results
(2010-09-22)AAA Caregiving Survey Results summarizes the results of a mini survey of the nations 629 Area Agencies on Aging (AAA) on the support they provide to family caregivers. Over 57% of AAAs responded to the survey and the results ... -
Nurising Home Use in Ohio: Who Stays, Who Pays?
(2010-06-11)This research brief follows a cohort of nursing home residents over a three-year period-- beginning with their first ever admission to a nursing home --in order to determine their stay patterns and changes in their payment ... -
Enriching Now with Then: Connecting Nursing Home Residents and Staff Through Oral History
(2010-03-09)This research presents and discusses findings on how increased staff knowledge of an Ohio nursing homes residents' past improved communication and relations between resident and staff and, also, boosted job performance ... -
National Association of Area Agencies on Aging AAA Workforce Survey
(2010-03-05)The National Association of Area Agencies on Aging (n4a) contracted with the Scripps Gerontology Center to conduct a brief survey. The goals were to describe the capacity of the current AAA workforce and the workforce ... -
Training Case Managers to Administer the Service Adequacy and Satisfaction Instrument (SASI)
(2009-07-14)This manual provides instruction for face-to-face interviewing using the Service Adequacy and Satisfaction Instrument. -
Area Agencies on Aging and The Future of Long-Term Care
(2009-07-14)This report presents the findings from the 2008 National Survey of Area Agencies on Aging. Results are presented on the following topics: AAAs at the Center of Aging Ready Communities, The Expanding Role of AAAs in Long-Term ... -
Providing Long-Term Services and Supports to an Aging Ohio : Progress and Challenges
(2009-06-04)This report details trends in Ohio long-term care service utilization over 14 years. It also provides information about the characteristics of those in different settings such as PASSPORT, nursing homes, and residential ... -
Implementation of the 2008 Ohio Nursing Home Family Satisfaction Survey : Final Report
(2009-04-21)In 2008, the Scripps Gerontology Center conducted the third bi-annual nursing home family satisfaction survey under a contract to the Ohio Department of Aging. Refinements to the survey instrument showed continued high ... -
Consumer Direction in Ohio : Findings From Two Demonstration Projects
(2009-04-20)This report provides findings from evaluations of two consumer-directed home care programs in Ohio. Results suggest consumer direction provides a good alternative to agency-managed home care services. -
Worker Injuries and Safety Equipment in Ohio Nursing Homes
(2009-04-08)A survey of nursing homes was conducted in 2006 to evaluate a number of facility-specific characteristics including worker injury rates. The nursing home worker injury rate was 6.6 per 100 workers with higher injury rates ... -
Aging and Long-Term Care Issues in Ohio
(2009-04-02)This summary report focuses on aging and disability in Ohio as well as on utilization and Medicaid costs of long-term care for older Ohioans. -
An Evaluation of the Assisted Living Medicaid Waiver Program
(2009-03-25)In the past decade the number of older people across the United States with disability has increased by about 20%, and the national Medicaid long-term care costs have nearly doubled. In response to these challenges, states ... -
Disability in Ohio : Long-Term Care Providers & Programs
(2009-02-25)This report describes the range of options used in the long-term care system in Ohio. For each provider or program, we report the eligibility requirements, consumer characteristics, capacity, utilization rate, average ... -
Livable Communities : Helping Older Ohioans Live Independent and Fulfilling Lives
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Ohio's Aging Workforce : Opportunities & Challenges for Ohio's Employers
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Images of Ohio Centenarians : An Exploratory Study
(Scripps Gerontology Center, 2008-12-12)