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LeadingAge magazine July/August 2011

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The Work That Otherwise Would Not Be Done
How creative and committed providers live the not-for-profit responsibility.
BY Gene Mitchell
Community Benefit Programs: Mission and the Not-For-Profit Responsibility
Committed to their missions and willing to reinvest revenue earned back into achieving a vision, not-for-profit organizations enjoy special tax benefits that come with a duty to serve their communities.
BY Debra Wood, R.N.
Not-for-Profits, Trusted Sources of Information, Expand Their Reach With Technology
Technology helps not-for-profits highlight their role as trusted sources of information for seniors and their family caregivers. Here is a look at providers that use distance learning to give caregivers the training and support they need on their own terms.
BY Michele Hayunga
Housing + Services Models Preserve Independence
Changing demographics, consumer preferences and an aging population in senior housing communities are feeding a natural movement toward more sophisticated housing-plus-services models.
BY Dianne Molvig
Many Hands and Voices Work Toward Common Goals
This year, LeadingAge members will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the association’s founding at the LeadingAge Annual Meeting & IAHSA Global Ageing Conference in Washington, D.C., Oct. 16-19. LeadingAge is talking with prominent members who helped build the organization, and other leaders in aging. Here is the third installment in that series.
BY Gene Mitchell
A New Model for Training Assisted Living Managers
A collaboration between Aging Services of Washington and a school of nursing has created an effective three-day training program and a mechanism for promoting ongoing shared learning for participants.
BY Bonnie Blachly
Effective Data Security for Aging-Services Providers
Regulations and common sense demand effective data security, but building a secure system is much more than buying the right hardware and software—it requires its own kind of “culture change” within an organization.
BY Joyce Miller-Evans and Mac McMillan
Job Satisfaction: Your Responsibility to Staff
If the not-for-profit responsibility requires a commitment to putting the person first, the “persons” served by providers must include staff as well as residents and clients.
BY Kim Fernandez