Colleagues,
Are you using the value and power of solid data to drive quality improvement, benchmarking and good decision making upstream, when your residents have less need for your services and are more independent?
Surprisingly, few aging service organizations are.
Hear from COLLAGE members and developers COLLAGE is sponsoring a special program, The Power of COLLAGE for Healthy Aging at Moorings Park in Naples, Florida on Monday, September 19 from noon to 6 p.m. There is no cost to attend this event. A very short registration form is HERE.
Come learn about COLLAGE! Planned presentations include:
- "We Don't Need an Assessment System, Our Residents are Too Healthy!" Ways to improve healthy aging outcomes in very healthy older adults
- Developing a Business Process and Business Case for an Evidence-based Assessment System
- What Does an Assessment Conversation Look Like? Excerpts from a COLLAGE interview
- Applying Data to Improve Healthy Aging Outcomes: What are COLLAGE Communities Doing?
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| Organizational tools to improve healthy aging
COLLAGE gives organizations the tools to partner with older people in their quest to age successfully. Through the COLLAGE assessment system, organizations have the opportunity to measure, track and improve healthy aging outcomes. Valid and reliable assessment data leads to: 1) the development of personalized healthy aging plans for individuals, and 2) a methodology to target the right programs and services to best match needs for a campus or community.
This two-level approach enables individuals to take charge of their own healthy aging and allows organizations to focus aging support resources appropriately for their community.
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Membership
Our membership consortium -- continuing care communities, moderate-income and federally subsidized housing programs, and home care and community-based agencies -- use the COLLAGE evidence-based assessment system to improve quality of life and successful aging. As of June 2011, there were over 60 non-profit sites in 22 states that participate in the membership consortium and use the COLLAGE Web-based software.
In good health,
Neil Beresin
National Program Manager
COLLAGE, The Art & Science of Healthy AgingŪ
e-mail: info@collageaging.org
phone: 610.335.1283
web: collageaging.org
blog: blog.collageaging.org
twitter: twitter.com/collageaging
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NOTEWORTHY NewsDiana DeMatteo, a COLLAGE assessment coach at Whitney Center in Hamden, CT, recently reported the launch of a low vision support group. "I knew that vision was an issue in our community, and the COLLAGE assessment data was paramount to knowing that this was an acute need to address. In addition, the data identifies which residents our community should target to participate." Diana talked about addressing the needs of a resident experiencing falls, about 2-3 times a week. "In addition to her falls, this resident often talked about feeling 'unfulfilled.' Together, we developed a Healthy Aging Plan through the COLLAGE assessment conversation, and it has done wonders for her. She is receiving increased physical therapy services, participating for the first time in one of our aquatics strengthening and endurance programs, and had a medication discontinued. Her new 'plan' directs her healthy aging path and she reports, "I am living a full, active life now and my living is so much more enjoyable!" Diana DeMatteo is one of several COLLAGE members participating on a member panel for the special program in Naples, Florida. |
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