Advocating quality and innovation in housing and long-term
care:
a charitable not-for-profit organization registered in the State of
Oregon
AARP (formally American Association of Retired Persons)
AARP is a nonprofit, nonpartisan membership organization for people age 50 and over.
The private, not-for-profit Alliance for Aging Research is the nation's leading citizen advocacy organization for improving the health and independence of Americans as they age.
Alzheimer's Disease Education & Referral Center
The American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging (AASHA)
The members of the American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging serve two million people everyday through mission-driven, not-for-profit organizations dedicated to providing the services people need, when they need them, in the place they call home. Our members offer the continuum of aging services: adult day services, home health, community services, senior housing, assisted living residences, continuing care retirement communities, and nursing homes. AAHSA's commitment is to create the future of aging services through quality people can trust.
American Bar Association Commission on Legal Problems of the Elderly
The mission of the ABA Commission on Law and Aging is to strengthen and secure the legal rights, dignity, autonomy, quality of life, and quality of care of elders. It carries out this mission through research, policy development, technical assistance, advocacy, education, and training.
The American Society of Aging (ASA)
Founded in 1954, the American Society on Aging is an association of diverse individuals bound by a common goal: to support the commitment and enhance the knowledge and skills of those who seek to improve the quality of life of older adults and their families. The membership of ASA is a multidisciplinary array of professionals who are concerned with the physical, emotional, social, economic and spiritual aspects of aging. They range from practitioners, educators, administrators, policymakers, business people, researchers, students, and more.
American Society of Consultant Pharmacists
The American Society of Consultant Pharmacists (ASCP) is the international professional association that provides leadership, education, advocacy, and resources to advance the practice of consultant and senior care pharmacy.
Architects Without Borders (AWB)
Architects Without Borders believes that through sensitive, compassionate engagement and participatory consensus building programs, communities can build self-reliance and long range viability that is responsive to socio-economic, community and cultural identity.
The Assisted Living Federation of America (ALFA)
The Assisted Living Federation of America is the largest national association exclusively dedicated to professionally-operated assisted living communities for seniors. ALFA's member-driven programs promote business and operational excellence through national conferences, research, publications, and executive networks. ALFA works to influence public policy by advocating for informed choice, quality care and accessibility for all Americans seeking assistance with long-term care. The association is laser-focused on providing tools to advance operational excellence in its member companies.
CarePathways.com was created and is maintained by RNs dedicated to optimizing a families access to valid information and creditable services about senior care and housing options.
Concepts In Community Living, Inc (CCL)
CCL manages buildings, which provide comfortable living in affordable apartments with quality living and support services available. CCL is also a resource offering a wide menu of development and management services to those interested in making a positive difference in the lives of their community's elders.
Consumer Consortium on Assisted Living
The Consumer Consortium on Assisted Living (CCAL) is the only nonprofit consumer-based organization nationwide focused on the needs, rights and protection of assisted living consumers, their caregivers & loved ones.
Engineers Without Borders (EWB)
Engineers Without Borders Portland Chapter
Engineers Without Borders Portland State University Student Chapter
Family Caregiver Alliance Clearing House
Family Caregiver Alliance (FCA), founded in 1977, serves as a public voice for these caregivers, illuminating the daily challenges they face, offering them the assistance they so desperately need and deserve, and championing their cause through education, services, research and advocacy.
The Friendly4Seniors.com database is populated with over 2000 senior related listings that are reviewed and approved as a senior related Web Site prior to listing.
Gerontological Society of America
The Gerontological Society of America is a non-profit professional organization with more than 5000 members in the field of aging. GSA provides researchers, educators, practitioners, and policy makers with opportunities to understand, advance, integrate, and use basic and applied research on aging to improve the quality of life as one ages.
Housing Assistance Council (HAC)
A nonprofit corporation headquartered in Washington, D.C., the Housing Assistance Council (HAC) has been helping local organizations build affordable homes in rural America since 1971. HAC emphasizes local solutions, empowerment of the poor, reduced dependence, and self-help strategies.
National Association of Area Agencies on Aging
The National Association of Area Agencies on Aging (n4a) is the umbrella organization for the 655 area agencies on aging (AAAs) and more than 230 Title VI Native American aging programs in the U.S. Through its presence in Washington D.C., n4a advocates on behalf of the local aging agencies to ensure that needed resources and support services are available to older Americans.
National Association of Professional Geriatric Care Managers
The National Association of Professional Geriatric Care Managers (GCM) is a non-profit association of professional practitioners whose purpose is the development, advancement, and promotion of humane and dignified social, psychological, and health care for the elderly and their families through counseling, treatment, and the delivery of concrete services by qualified, certified providers.
National Association of State Units on Aging
Founded in 1964, the National Association of State Units on Aging (NASUA) is a non-profit association representing the nation's 56 officially designated state and territorial agencies on aging. The mission of the Association is to advance social, health, and economic policies responsive to the needs of a diverse aging population and to enhance the capacity of its membership to promote the rights, dignity and independence of, and expand opportunities and resources for, current and future generations of older persons, adults with disabilities and their families.
The National Center for Assisted Living (NCAL)
The National Center for Assisted Living (NCAL) is the assisted living voice of the American Health Care Association (AHCA), the nation's largest organization representing long term care.
National Center on Elder Abuse
The National Center on Elder Abuse (NCEA) is a gateway to resources on elder abuse, neglect, and exploitation.
National Long Term Care Ombudsman Resource Center
The National Long Term Care Ombudsman Resource Center provides support, technical assistance, and training to the 53 State Long Term Care Ombudsman Programs and their statewide networks of almost 600 regional (local) programs. The Center's objectives are to enhance the skills, knowledge and management capacity of the State programs to enable them to handle residents' complaints and represent resident interests (individual and systemic advocacy).
National Senior Citizens Law Center
The National Senior Citizens Law Center advocates before the courts, Congress and federal agencies to promote the independence and well-being of low-income elderly and disabled Americans.
NCB Capital Impact provides solutions, based on cooperative principles, that empower underserved communities to address the problems poverty creates in America.
Pan American Health Organization (PAHO)
The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) is an international public health agency with 100 years of experience in working to improve health and living standards of the countries of the Americas. It serves as the specialized organization for health of the Inter-American System. It also serves as the the Regional Office for the Americas of the World Health Organization and enjoys international recognition as part of the United Nations system.
The Pioneer Network supports models where elders live in open, diverse, caring communities. Pioneers are working toward transformational system change by both evolutionary and revolutionary means, using Pioneer values and principles as the foundations for change.
The web pointer for senior adults in Oregon.
seniorresource.com (SR) provides a comprehensive source of housing information and services for seniors and their caregivers. The mission of SR is to provide education services to the senior population.
The Administration on Aging (AoA), an agency in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, is one of the nation's largest providers of home and community-based care for older persons and their caregivers.
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) for Seniors
Wilson, Keren B. with Eli Cohen “Aging Today: The Elderly and the Quest for Autonomy”
Wilson, Keren B. Negotiated Risk Balancing Safety and Autonomy American Society on Aging April 2003
Wilson, Keren B. Report Card for the 1990’s: Assessing the Success of Assisted Living”. Symposium at Gerontological Society of America Annual Meeting Boston Nov 2002.
Wilson Keren B. Using Negotiated Risk for Managing Risk.” Training for the State of CA. Sacramento CA Nov 2002 ; May 2003
Wilson Keren B. “Growing Pains.” Presentation for Veteran’s Administration Boise ID 2002.
Wilson Keren B. “How Safe Is Choice?” Keynote Address Minnesota Association Homes. 2002
Wilson Keren B. Assisted Living at the Crossroads: Trends Models and Predictions.” Keynote Address South Dakota Assisted Living Association. 2002.
Wilson Keren B. Assisted Living: A Song of Triumph and Tribulation.” Article for Contempory Long Term care. In Press.
Wilson Keren B. “Affordable Assisted Living.” American Society on Aging Summer Series training San Francisco. CA>
Wilson, Keren B. “Report Card on Assisted Living.” Special Issue Session presentation, ASA/NCOA Annual Meeting, Denver, CO., 2002.
Wilson, K.B., K. Burgess & M. Hernandez. “Negotiated Risk Agreements: Opportunity or Exploitation.” Journal Ethics, Law and Aging. Vol.7, October, 2001, Springer Publishing Co. New York, NY.
Wilson, K.B. with R. Kane. “Assisted Living at the Crossroads: Principles for its Future.” Discussion paper initially prepared for Summit on Regulating Assisted Living, September, 2001. Jessie F. Richardson Foundation, Portland, OR.
Wilson, K.B., M. Hernandez & E. Sheehy. “Realities of Aging in Place & Affordability In Assisted Living: Trends & Emerging Models.” Presentation for Summer Series, American Society on Aging, July, 2001, San Francisco, CA.
Wilson, K.B. “Senior Housing: Alive & Well in 21st Century.” Assisted Living Today, Spring, 2001.
Wilson, K.B. “Putting Light into the Lives of Older People.” Facility Care. Spring, 2001.
Wilson, K.B., K. Burgess & S. Petersen “Negotiated Risk Agreements: An Approach to Preserving Autonomy.” Presentation at Assisted Living Nursing Conf., May, 2001, Cinn. OH.
Wilson, K.B. “Assisted Living at Crossroads, Act II, Scene One.” Presentation at Texas CBA Conference, April, 2001, Tyler, TX.
Wilson, K.B. with R. Kane et.al. in G.S. Wunderlich & Kohler, P.O. (Eds). Improving the Quality of Long-Term Care. National Academy Press. Washington, DC 2000
Wilson, K.B. “Assisted Living: “Reconceptualizing Regulation to Meet Consumers’ Needs& Preferences.” Report prepared for American Association of Retired Persons, Public Policy Institute, 1996, Washington D.C.
Wilson, K.B. “Redefining Quality in Assisted Living.” Assisted Living Today. Fall 1996.
Wilson, K.B. “Designing Affordable Senior Housing.” Provider. May 1995.
Wilson, K.B. “Assisted Living as a Model of Care Delivery.” Enhancing Autonomy in Long-Term Care. Springer Publishing Company, New York, NY. 1995.
Wilson K.B. with M. Kapp “Assisted Living & Negotiated Risk: Reconciling Protection Autonomy.” Journal Ethics, Law & Aging, Vol. 1, No 1, l995.
Wilson, K.B. “Creating Residential Models of Assisted Living. “ American Association of Housing & Services for the Aging) Provider News. Vol .9, June 1994.
Wilson, K.B. “Assisted Living –A Paradigm Shift for Consumers or False Hope?” Aging Today January 1994.
Wilson, K.B. “Assisted Living: A Model of Supportive Housing.” in P.R. Katz, R.L. Kane & M.D. Mezey (Eds.) Advances in Long-Term Care.Vol. 2, pp 196-218. Springer Publishing Company. New York, NY 1993.
Wilson, K.B. with R. Kane “Assisted Living in the United States: A New Paradigm for Residential Care for frail Older Persons?” Research report prepared for American Association Retired persons, Public Policy Institute. Washington, D.C. 1993.
Wilson, K.B., & D.Rankos “Assisted Living: New Hope for Long-Term Care?” Paper presented Gerontological Society of America, San Francisco, CA. 1991.
Wilson, K.B. “Expanding Residential Options in Delaware: Report prepared for Delaware Dept of Health & Social Services, Dover, Delaware 1991.
Wilson, K.B with J.A. Miller “Concepts in Community Living: Assisted Living Program” Community Based Long-term Care Innovative Models. Sage Publications, Newbury Park, CA. 1991.
Wilson, K.B. “Segregation Isn’t the Answer.” The Aging Connection. October, 1990.
Wilson, K.B. “Special Care for the Demented?” Senior Patient. April, 1990.
Wilson, K.B. “Assisted Living: The Merger of Housing & Long-Term Care Services.” Long term-care Advances. Duke University. Vol. No 4, 1990.
Wilson K.B. “The Next Big Elderly Housing Market.” Seniors Housing News. Spring, 1989.
Wilson, K.B. “Assisted Living Aims to Fill Gap in Continuum of Care.” Oregon Journal On Aging. Spring, 1989.
Wilson, K.B., R. Ladd & M. Saslow “Community Based Care in an Institution: New Approaches and Definitions of Long-Term Care.” Paper presented Gerontological Society of America, San Francisco, CA., 1988.
Wilson, K.B. “Components of Care for Assisted Living.” Invited lecture, University of California, American Society on Aging Summer Series, Berkeley, CA., 1988, 1989, 1990.
Wilson, K.B. “Beyond Loving Care” Video produced for HHS, Region X & State of Oregon, Portland, OR. 1988.
Wilson K.B. “Strategies for Improving Functional Ability of Cognitively Impaired Elderly.” Portland State University, Institute on Aging. Portland, OR. 1987.