GSU Gets Grant To Help Improve Care For Nursing Home Residents

Georgia State University is receiving $1.6 million to improve the care of people living in nursing homes in the state.

The three-year project is geared toward changing the “culture” around long-term care services to focus more on the individual – not the institution, said Elisabeth Burgess, director of Georgia State University’s Gerontology Institute.

“Whether we have dementia, whether we are frail – we still are a person,” Burgess said. “It’s thinking about people’s well-being beyond just ‘Are their minimum physical needs met?’”