New Edition of Seniors Housing & Care Journal Released
By Scott King
The 2009 Seniors Housing & Care Journal was released at the annual meeting of the National Investment Center for the Seniors Housing & Care Industry in Chicago on September 23. The article Satisfied Residents Won’t Recommend Your Community, But Very Satisfied Residents Will, written by Margaret Wylde, Edie Smith, David Schless, and Rachelle Bernstecker, was awarded the GE Healthcare Financial Services award for outstanding empirical research. The topic paper Promoting Homelike Characteristics and Eliminating Institutional Characteristics in Community-Based Residential Care Settings: Insights from an 8-State Study, written by Rosalie Kane and Lois Cutler, was awarded special commendation.
Other articles give readers equally important concepts to apply in their own settings and provide broad implications for the field, such as qualities of innovative cafés in Chicago that restore older adults’ attention and decrease symptoms of mental fatigue; a tool that allows older adults to assess their own risk of falling; older adults’ living options in the future, as seen by both providers and older adults themselves; trends continuing care retirement community executives foresee; long-term care preferences of a sample of older adults living in predominantly rural settings; and advocating the importance of promoting aging in place.
The journal’s 2009 table of contents is below. To order your new copy of Seniors Housing & Care Journal, please visit http://www.nic.org/NicStore/c-4-nic-publications.aspx. Individual articles will be summarized in forthcoming issues of aging in action. For additional information, contact Scott King, associate managing editor, at sking@matherlifeways.com.
GE Award for Best Research Paper
Satisfied Residents Won’t Recommend Your Community, but Very Satisfied Residents Will
Margaret Ann Wylde, PhD; Edie Smith, David Schless, Rachelle Bernstecker
Special Commendation
Promoting Homelike Characteristics and Eliminating Institutional Characteristics in Community-Based Residential Care Settings: Insights from an 8-State Study
Rosalie A. Kane, PhD; Lois J. Cutler, PhD
The Restorative Qualities of an Activity-Based, Third Place Café for Seniors: Restoration, Social Support, and Place Attachment at Mather’s—More Than a Café
Mark S. Rosenbaum, PhD; Jillian C. Sweeney, PhD; Carla Windhorst
The Utility of a Falls Risk Self-Assessment Tool
Bonita L. Marks, PhD, FACSM, ACSM-CEP; Laurence M. Katz, MD, FACEP
Preparing for the Future: Trends in Continuing Care Retirement Communities
Susan B. Brecht, Sandra Fein, Linda Hollinger-Smith, PhD, RN, FAAN
An Exploratory Look at Preferences for Seven Long-Term Care Options
S. Melinda Spencer, PhD; Julie Hicks Patrick, PhD; Jenessa C. Steele, PhD
Lifespan Housing for Aging in Place: Addressing the Home as an Integrated Part of the Solution to Long-Term Care in America
Migette Kaup, MArch
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