Long-Term Care Survey Alert

If your facility does not yet plan care according to nationally accepted dementia care guidelines, pledge to make 2016 your year to move forward. Here’s how to learn more about the programs mentioned in CMS’s training materials:

• CMS’s own Hand in Hand series (http://www.cms-handinhandtoolkit.info/),
• The OASIS person-centered dementia care approach of the Ma. Senior Care Foundation, (http://www.maseniorcarefoundation.org/OASIS.aspx),
• University of Iowa’s IADAPT Program (https://www.healthcare.uiowa.edu/igec/iaadapt),
• The Veterans Administration’s VA-STAR Program (http://www.mirecc.va.gov/visn21/dementia.asp.),
• Johns Hopkins University’s Living with Dementia: Impact on Individuals, Communities and Societies (DICE) program (https://www.coursera.org/course/dementiacare),
• The Alzheimer’s Association essentiALZ program (http://www.hcinteractive.com/essentialz),
• Materials from the Nursing Home Quality Care Collaborative (http://qio.ipro.org/nursing-homes-hac/qapi/webinar),
• Advancing Excellence Medication Management Guidelines (https://www.nhqualitycampaign.org/goalDetail.aspx?g=med#tab2), or
• The American Health Care Association’s dementia care tool kit.