PALL focuses on caring, comfort and quality of life. This breakthrough program provides a rapid way to determine whether various prevention therapies work, and may lead to a potential discovery of a cure for Alzheimer's disease. Phase 2 will conduct a controlled intervention study of this adapted program over two years. Outreach services will include home health care, social service agency referrals, paratransit services, legal services, mental health services, personal visits, and assistance with chores and errands. Through the Elder Assistance Services program, counselors develop individualized case plans for bill paying, insurance filing, banking, and access to medical assistance and treatment.
Counselors also help seniors to obtain access to local, state and federal assistance programs.
The purpose of this grant is to develop a specialized training program to be presented in churches through the utilization of active, healthy elders caring for those elders in need. AAI initiates projects to help seniors remain self-sufficient, while providing support for family members and other caregivers. It also reaches into the community to offer education and to disseminate information about other programs and services available to older adults and their caregivers. The goal of this project is to develop, implement and evaluate a comprehensive training program for special care units, including all staff involved in dementia care, i.e. administrators, clinical staff, and other facility staff. The training program will be designed to be portable and generalizable and is intended to serve as a model program for the long term care industry as a whole.