July 2014

In This Issue
First Green House Homes in Minnesota Officially Open
Assessing the Financial Viability of The Green House Model: Slaying the Urban Myth
Registration Open! 7th Annual Green House Meeting & Celebration
Dancing Reduces Pain
THRIVE: Understanding the Language of Research
Technology: Where do we go from here?
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Despite the long winter and flooding in Minnesota this year...the ribbon cutting ceremony at Water's Edge on June 26th was a real success.  The first Green House homes located in Mankato, Minnesota will be welcoming Elders in mid

-July.  Congratulations to all!

  

The three story project, with an assisted living Green House home on each floor, was developed and will be operated by Grace Senior Services.  Owners, Brad and Heather Bass along with their children and other city officials were all on hand for the grand opening event.

 

Water's Edge is located on the Mankato hilltop and will offer wonderful scenic waterfront and woodland views. 

 

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Take any urban myth, such as the popular one about alligators living in the sewers;  people talk about it, but nobody has seen it.  The urban myth about Green House homes is that they are not financially viable because they are too expensive to build, and too expensive to run.  But when you really look at it, the facts don't support the myth, according to Scott Townsley, Principal, CliftonLarsonAllen, LLP, in a presentation at LeadingAge of Pennsylvania.

 

Public perception of nursing homes continues to be negative.  Despite that, occupancy remains pretty high.  Nursing homes have benefited from Certificates of Need, which peg nursing home bed supply to demand.  Nursing homes have never had to worry about marketing a product that the public didn't want - demand is guaranteed.

 

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Dust off your cowboy boots, brush up on your Elvis impersonation and save room for some of the country's best BBQ!  The 7th Annual Green House Meeting and Celebration for Green House adopters is going to be in Memphis, Tennessee on November 17-19.


This year's conference will take place at the historic and incredibly beautiful Peabody Memphis hotel. The Peabody Memphis is located near Beale Street, a melting pot of delta blues, jazz, rock 'n' roll, R &B and gospel. That's where music legends like Louis Armstrong, Memphis Minnie, Muddy Waters, and B.B. King made their mark.  It's no surprise that Memphis is known as Blues City.

 

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If you have knee pain, try dancing the aches away. As reported in Mcknight's, Saint Louis University's School of Nursing released a study of elders who complained about knee pain or stiffness in their joints. The results showed that those who danced reported less pain.

"The researchers separated the senior residents into two groups - one group that danced for 45 minutes up to two times a week and another group that did not receive any kind of dance therapy. On average, those in the dance group attended 21 out of 24 sessions.

 

Results showed that participants in the dance group were able to walk faster and reported less pain. In addition, residents in the dance group took 39% less pain medication while participants in the non-dance group took 21% more medication."

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The Green House Project has partnered with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's THRIVE (The Research Initiative Valuing Eldercare) collaborative to learn more about the Green House model as well as other models of care. Supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the THRIVE team is conducting a series of interrelated research projects that together will comprise the largest research effort undertaken to date in Green House homes. Each quarter, a member of the THRIVE team will contribute a blog post to the Green House Project website.

 

 

As the THRIVE research projects head toward completion later this year, our research team has developed plans to share our research findings.  In addition to publishing articles in a special issue of the journal, Health Services Research, we also will share findings through conference and webinar presentations and blog posts.

 

Because some commonly used research terms may sound like jibberish to non-researchers (after all, who really knows what a p-value is?), we will devote our next few blog posts to explaining a few terms that will help non-researchers better understand the THRIVE articles, presentations, and posts.  We'll start by reviewing Quantitative and Qualitative research designs.

 

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Many of us are always trying to determine what technology makes the most sense for our organization...it's an important issue for day to day operations and of

 course it has real financial implications.

 

The Long-Term and Post-Acute Care Collaborative has announced its 2014-2016 Roadmap for technology adoption.  In light of a world filled with devices to keep us connected, it isn't surprising that many parts of the roadmap deal with that specific issue:  staying connected!

 

The roadmap was unveiled on the final day of the  Long-Term and Post-Acute Care Health IT Summit.


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