Research & Other Projects

The goal of the Older Adult Behavioral Health Initiative is to better meet the needs of older adults and people with disabilities by improving timely access to care from qualified providers who work together to provide coordinated, quality, and culturally responsive behavioral health and wellness services.   

The purpose of this project is to describe and track changes in Oregon's community-based care settings. Since 2015, the study team has conducted an annual survey of assisted living, residential care, and memory care communities, as well as a sample of adult foster homes.

This series of studies includes research into heat vulnerability, state climate adaptation policy, and wildfire impact on AL/RC communities in Oregon.

Oregon's Center for Excellence in Behavioral Health & Aging (OCEBHA) is a new center to address growing mental health and substance abuse disorders among older adults. 

The goals of this project are to understand how changes in ownership through sales may impact assisted living operations, and to identify any consequential effect on residents’ health and well-being. The study will have a specific focus on the role of private equity firms’ investment in assisted living, especially "memory care."

The overall purpose of this project is to understand quality care and satisfaction with memory care services provided by assisted living communities in the U.S.

Development and coordination of 5 webinars for Oregon AFH providers covering important topics like keeping residents safe, providing care that is centered around each resident’s individual needs and preferences (person-centered care), and improving quality of care.

This paper examines staff dementia care training requirements for assisted living communities in detail, and documents specific training requirements as resources for professionals and consumers.

This three-part study examines expenses associated with the cost of resident care in Oregon’s community-based care settings, the average wages and benefits paid to direct care workers in these settings, and highlights direct care workers experiences as a resident care aide. 

This series of studies examines organizational, occupational, contextual, and personal factors associated with administrator turnover in assisted living (AL) and residential care (RC) facilities located in Oregon.

This multi-site study examines how states’ assisted living regulations affect residents with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias.

Resident VIEW (Voicing Importance, Experience, and Well-Being) is a measure designed to learn directly from long-term care residents the extent to which they experience support that matters most to them.

This project involved an ongoing consumer satisfaction survey for users of Call Center and Options Counseling ADRC services in Oregon. The results were used by state and local partners to describe progress toward meeting ADRC performance standards and to implement quality improvement efforts where standards fall below the baseline.

The Institute on Aging evaluated the LiveWell Method, a quality improvement assurance and performance improvement approach created by The Malden Collective.

The State of Aging in Portland study highlights historical, current, and projected trends related to older adults and the age structure in the city of Portland and the greater metropolitan area.