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November 14, 2022
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Serious Illness Messaging Toolkit
This innovative toolkit, designed for health care professionals who are involved in public outreach, will dramatically change the way you have conversations about advance care planning, palliative care, and hospice. With messages and images that you are encouraged to "steal", this toolkit can hel...
Spotlight
October 10, 2024
From Awkward to Engaging: Toolkit Promotes Productive Conversations
Advance care planning is an essential part of post-acute and long-term care (PALTC). However, conversations with patients and family members about a serious illness, palliative care, and hospice can be stressful, challenging, and awkward. The Serious Illness Messaging Toolkit was created to ease the stress...Landing Page
Ethics Toolkit
Ethical dilemmas in post-acute and long-term care (PALTC) settings are common, particularly when balancing resident autonomy, safety, and quality of life. This toolkit aims to bridge these gaps by providing an overview of fundamental ethical principles and decision-making frameworks tailored to PALTC setti...
Policy Snapshot
May 11, 2026
Medicare Shared Savings Program: Application Toolkit Materials
Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs): See the Medicare Shared Savings Program Application Toolkit to get resources for the upcoming application submission cycle.Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV)
Explore our education, products, journal articles, and news specific to RSV in post-acute and long-term care settings.Immunization
Explore our education, products, journal articles, and news specific to immunization in post-acute and long-term care settings.
JAMDA
December 22, 2025
Developing and Piloting the Well-Being Toolkit—a Novel Innovation for Systematically Prioritizing Well-Being in Long-Term Care
Asking and knowing what matters is critical for delivering high-value care to older adults, especially those in long-term care (LTC). We developed the Well-Being Toolkit to help nursing homes systematically understand and prioritize resident well-being. Drawing from multiple disciplines, we created a simpl...
Policy Snapshot
January 17, 2025
CDC Announces 2025 Vaccine Schedule Updates
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued changes in the 2025 immunization schedule for children, adolescents, and adults. These changes include new and updated recommendations for COVID-19 vaccines, influenza vaccines, meningococcal serogroup B vaccines, pneumococcal conjugate vaccines (...
JAMDA
April 7, 2014
New Toolkit to Measure Quality of Person-Centered Care: Development and Pilot Evaluation With Nursing Home Communities
Increasingly, nursing home (NH) providers are adopting a person-centered care (PCC) philosophy; yet, they currently lack methods to measure their progress toward this goal. Few PCC tools meet criteria for ease of use and feasibility in NHs. The purpose of this article is to report on the development of the...
