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?’”
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