Moving Beyond Institutional Nursing Home Care – Part 1
Moving Beyond Institutional Nursing Home Care – Part 1:
What We Have Learned from COVID-19: Proven Long-Term Care Alternatives for a Safer and Better Long-Term Care Future
This 90-minute panel will discuss staffing and design of emerging nursing home and residential care models shown to significantly improve quality of life while reducing transmission and mortality from COVID-19 compared with large institutional nursing home settings; key practices from these models that can be implemented in existing nursing homes and residential care models; and an innovative population health system coordinating housing, healthcare, and community-based services to better support wellness and nursing home diversion.
Sponsors:
- Elder Law and Special Needs Section
- Committee on Long Term Care Facility Reform
- Committee on Real Estate & Housing
- Committee on Disability Rights
- May 18, 2021
- 10:00 AM
- 11:30 AM
- Virtual Participation
Agenda
10:00 – 10:10 a.m.
Introductions and Welcome
Moderator:
Neil T. Rimsky, Esq., Cuddy & Feder LLP, White Plains, NY
10:10 – 10:25 am
COVID-19 & Long-Term Care Settings, Services & Supports: Outcomes and evolving responses to the virus in institutional nursing homes, Green House and small homes, assisted living, and Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE).
Speaker:
Sheryl Zimmerman, Co-Director, Program on Aging, Disability, and Long-Term Care, Chapel Hill, NC
10:25 – 10:40 am
Safer at Home: Expanding options for older adults to remain in the community and in control of their health.
Speaker:
Nancy Eldridge, CEO, National Well Home Network, Burlington, VT
10:40 – 10:55 am
Re-envisioning Nursing Homes: Key elements of the Green House model believed to contribute to better COVID-19 outcomes, and implications for nursing home and congregate care reform.
Speaker:
Robert Jenkens, Principal, Jenkens Consulting LLC, Washington, DC
10:55 – 11:10 am
What is Needed to Support and Fortify Community Based and Home Like Models for Care
Panel:
Sheryl Zimmerman, Co-Director, Program on Aging, Disability, and Long-Term Care, Chapel Hill, NC
Nancy Eldridge, CEO, National Well Home Network, Burlington, VT
Robert Jenkens, Principal, Jenkens Consulting LLC, Washington, DC
11:10 – 11:30 am
Questions & Answers
Moderator:
Neil T. Rimsky, Esq., Cuddy & Feder LLP, White Plains, NY
- Nancy Eldridge, Speaker, National Well Home Network
- Robert Jenkens, Speaker, Jenkens Consulting LLC
- Sheryl Zimmerman, Speaker, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Neil T. Rimsky, Esq., Moderator, Cuddy & Feder LLP
- Webinar
- 0KQ11A
- Elder Law & Special Needs Section
