Centenarians’ end-of-life sentiments and plans are often misunderstood by those closest to them, according to a new study from the LTSS Center....
Housing Plus Services Research: A Decade of Lessons in How to Influence Policy and Practice
Research has helped promote housing plus services models and has demonstrated their value. Turning promise into policy is the greatest challenge. A comprehensive planning process prompted leaders at A.M. McGregor Home to make significant changes to their organization’s strategic direction in 1999. That decision had a direct and long-lasting impact…...
What Does Research Mean for Providers?
Participating in research projects offers great benefits, but providers should make sure they’re prepared for what the work entails. “There’s that trifecta of process, culture and discernment that needs to go into it. You need a culture of inquiry, trust with stakeholders, and you have to think there’s a benefit.…...
Evidence-Based Practices: How to Find Them, Choose Them and Use Them
How can providers make evidence-based practices work for them, once brought into their own communities? Professional researchers give advice on what constitutes good research and how implementation challenges can be overcome. There is little doubt that evidence-based practices are becoming essential to the work LeadingAge members do. These are practices…...
Vision: Research Must Be a Priority for Aging Services
A conversation with former LeadingAge CEO Len Fishman about why we must embrace research. This issue of LeadingAge magazine is concerned with research, viewed from many angles. Why should providers adopt evidence-based practices? Should they actively seek to participate in research? What can research offer our field? Will evidence-based practices…...
Bureau of Sages: Can Older Adults’ Advice Lead to Better-Focused Research?
Input from an advisory board of older adults—on communication strategies, research goals and priorities—is helping to improve research on aging. Over the past several years, an innovative project called the Bureau of Sages has involved older adults, including many who are functionally or cognitively limited, as active participants in designing…...
The LeadingAge LTSS Center at UMass Boston: What You Need to Know
The leaders of the new LTSS Center explain why its creation will benefit research in aging while making the work of LeadingAge members more visible. In May 2017, LeadingAge joined with the Gerontology Institute at the University of Massachusetts Boston to create a new research center called the LeadingAge LTSS…...
Understanding the Economic Status of Older Americans
A conversation with Marc Cohen, co-director of the LeadingAge LTSS Center @UMass Boston, about a study the LTSS Center is conducting for the National Council on Aging (NCOA). The LeadingAge LTSS Center @UMass Boston is studying the economic and demographic profiles of American older adults, at the behest of the…...