Creating an Age-Friendly Nursing Home Workforce to Improve Outcomes

Ensuring that all older adults who live in nursing homes are supported, nurtured and empowered requires a collective focus on care improvement from clinicians, staff, family caregivers and residents themselves. At the same time, nursing home staff need training and support to provide the best possible care.

Here are resources to enhance the nursing home workforce and elevate age-friendly care provided to residents

The Power of Partnerships Between Nursing Schools & Nursing Homes

The Teaching Nursing Home initiative is the basis of a textbook showing how partnerships between nursing education programs and nursing home staff can change the perception of nursing homes, prepare the careforce and improve care quality

Training Program to Elevate the Workforce & Improve Outcomes

The federal Geriatrics Workforce Enhancement Program is accepting applications from sites that will train primary care and nursing home staff, with a new objective to build Certified Nursing Assistant career ladders.

Moving the Needle on the National Academies Nursing Home Report

The Moving Forward Coalition shares progress on its nine Action Plans to improve nursing home care and the vision for collaborating with many kinds of partners in 2024, including on exciting state-based work in New Jersey, Michigan and Pennsylvania.

Evidence-Based Practices to Improve Quality of Care

The Better Care Playbook synthesizes the research on how states can address nursing home quality by embracing small home models, increasing transparency and strengthening staffing levels.

How to Communicate Effectively About Nursing Home Care & Aging

The FrameWorks Institute offers a series of brief videos with best practices to use when talking about nursing home care, including do’s and don’ts when discussing the workforce.

Advocacy Strategies to Return Nursing Home Residents from Hospitals

A Justice in Aging recorded webinar teaches how to reduce nursing home evictions through an understanding of relevant federal laws.