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BJBC
Better Jobs Better Care
CAST
Center for Aging Services Technologies
IAHSA
International Association of Homes and Services for the Ageing
IFAS
Institute for the Future of Aging Services
The Long-term Care Solution Project
AAHSA's Long-term Care Solution Project

January/February 2003

Technology and the Future of Aging Services
If you’re running an aging services organization, believing you need to increase your “investment in technology,” it can be awfully hard to know where to start investing limited dollars for the best benefit to the seniors you serve and the organization you have to push into the future.

Information Technology that Boosts Operations and Planning
Despite an explosion of interest and experimentation in assistive, monitoring and feedback technologies, providers continue to put big money and big time into upgrading the information technology (IT) systems that are the backbone of day-to-day operations.

Excellence in Alzheimer’s and Dementia Care
Best Practices looked at care for seniors with Alzheimer’s and dementia from four very different perspectives.

Fiscal Fitness: Creative Fundraising for New Programs or Services
To introduce new programs and services, communities have to raise the funds for their equipment, staff, space and promotion. Here are the stories of several providers that have found fresh approaches to fundraising.

Best Practices from a 150-Year Perspective
What were considered “best practices” of days gone by?

Vision: Organizational Ethics Must Be Every-Day Ethics
Melvin Matsumoto on ethics in aging services.

Research Department
Providers share solutions to workforce challenges.

Standards Department
Technology connects: in-house TV station brings a community together.

Ideas and Innovations Department
Providers share their best ideas.

Last Updated : 5/16/2006 9:57:20 AM
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