Word spreads on adult day services.Grant supports 'Partners in Caregiving' seminars THE WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY SCHOOL of Medicine's Department of Psychiatry is using a $1.9 million grant from The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, charitable organization devoted exclusively to health care issues. It was established in 1936 by Robert Wood Johnson (1893–1968), board chairman of the Johnson & Johnson medical products company. to spread the news coast to coast about what it takes to run an effective adult day services program. The centerpiece of the initiative, dubbed dub 1 tr.v. dubbed, dub·bing, dubs 1. To tap lightly on the shoulder by way of conferring knighthood. 2. To honor with a new title or description. 3. "Partners in Caregiving: The Adult Day Services Program," is a series of three-day seminars in 14 different states that tout Tout To promote a security in order to attract buyers. tout To foster interest in a particular company or security. For example, a broker might tout a security to a client in the hope that the client will purchase the security. best practices in adult day programming, marketing, and financial management. The first stop on what is called the "mobile adult day services college" was in Chicago this past September. Denver marks the final stop, which will be in September of this year. "I think we've hit a bull's-eye," says Burton Reifler, MD, who directs the initiative and heads the department of psychiatry at Wake Forest University School of Medicine Wake Forest University School of Medicine, along with North Carolina Baptist Hospital and Wake Forest University Physicians, is part of the Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center system. in Winston-Salem, N.C. Advanced registration for the three-day seminars costs $350 per person, or $300 per person for those who register in advance as part of a group. Dr. Reifler says the seminars draw on lessons learned from two previous adult day demonstration projects sponsored by The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation: the Dementia Care & Respite RESPITE, contracts, civil law. An act by which a debtor who is unable to satisfy his debts at the moment, transacts (i. e. compromises) with his creditors, and obtains from them time or delay for the payment of the sums which he owes to them. Louis. Code, 3051. Services Program, which ran in 13 states from 1988 to 1992, and Partners in Caregiving: The Dementia Services Program, which ran in 30 states from 1992 to 1998. "This is the culmination of 13 years of work," Dr. Reifler explains. "We hope to assist existing centers in increasing their enrollment and to encourage the development of new centers." Other components of the initiative include on-site training opportunities for those who attend a seminar; a toll-free hotline to help existing centers with program design, marketing, or financial concerns; a forthcoming Web site that will contain information about the program; a newsletter; and videotape videotape Magnetic tape used to record visual images and sound, or the recording itself. There are two types of videotape recorders, the transverse (or quad) and the helical. projects that highlight models of care. No one knows for sure how adult day service programs operating in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. , but estimates put it between 4,000 and 5,000, Dr. Reifler says. "We need to double the amount of day centers that we have nationally; we hope this program will be an important step in that direction," he says. |
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