Best Practice Intervention Packages
The Home Health Quality Improvement Organization Support Center's (HH QIOSC) best practice intervention packages are available and free of charge.

A Continuum Comes Home
For these providers highlighted in this article, creating the future of aging services means making a permanent commitment to bringing services to people at home.

Read AAHSA's HCBS Report
The HCBS Report is a monthly publication written for AAHSA's home and community-based services providers. This report includes information on provider trends and resources, changes in public policy and upcoming events.

National Adult Day Services Association
The National Adult Day Services Association (NADSA) is the leading voice of the rapidly growing adult day service (ADS) industry in the United States, and the national focal point for the nation's 3,500 adult day services providers.

Adult Day Services Secrets, Systems, and Strategies for Excellence: Sourcebook for Directors and Administrators
What starts as a national curriculum for training the leaders in our field has become a one-volume, essential Sourcebook for all of those planning, management and administrative positions. The Sourcebook covers the numerous topics, including the essentials of good leadership and the planning process from beginning to end. This valuable resource has a list price of $210, but is offered to AAHSA members for $100 (AAHSA Bookstore Item #AD001).

Training the Program Assistant in Adult Day Services Manual and Video
This manual makes training your program assistants easier than ever. Topics include understanding adult day services, participants’ rights, role of staff, observation and recording, the aging process, therapeutic activities and the role of the program assistant in the delivery of services. This valuable resource has a list price of $142, but is offered to AAHSA members for $70 (AAHSA Bookstore Items #AD004).

Standards and Guidelines for Adult Day Services
This resource provides a comprehensive outline of “best practices” in all areas of facility operations and service delivery. Emphasis is placed on the importance of target population identification and assessment, administration, organizational structure, individualized plans of care —including the “new service categories,” direct service provision, staffing requirements, facility design and program evaluation. This valuable resource has a list price of $55, but is offered to AAHSA members for $35 (AAHSA Bookstore Item #AD003).

Report Features "How To's" on Becoming the Home Health Agency of Choice
Press Ganey Associates recently released "Patient Perspectives on American Health Care," a report that shows that patients are more satisfied since home health agencies introduced more patient-centered care quality initiatives. The report also features ideas and insights that can help your agency become the agency of choice for patients and referral sources.

Quality First in Home and Community-Based Services, Practical Advice on the Olmstead Decision
The trend toward more home and community-based services (HCBS) offers providers of homes and services for the aging with both challenge and opportunity. Get up to speed on new alternatives in delivery of services, consumer choices, business expansion possibilities and federal and state activity. This valuable resource has a list price of $46, but is offered to AAHSA members for $36 (AAHSA Bookstore Item #QF010).

National PACE Association
Programs of All-inclusive Care for the Elderly (known as PACE) are innovative because they provide continuous care and services offering individuals eligible for nursing home care the option of continuing to live in the community.