Improving psychosocial care in nursing home settings: the next challenge.

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Improving psychosocial care in nursing home settings: the next challenge.

Imagine the nursing home setting in the United States as a place in which stronger research and practice connections are tested in a social laboratory-type setting, where strategies to improve the psychosocial well-being of nursing home residents are implemented, and social work's contributions to resident quality of life and quality of care are better articulated and actualized. The creation of this type of setting has the potential to encourage the highest quality of social work practice. The research implemented in these types of settings has the promise to better inform health care policy debate, improve the quality of care for nursing home residents, and support the development of more effective and efficient monitoring and quality improvement strategies in our nation's 17,000 nursing facilities. Quality nursing hom...

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