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Tressa Nese and Helen Diskevich
Center of Geriatric Nursing Excellence

Program for Person-Centered Living Systems of Care

Mission

The Program for Person-Centered Living Systems of Care is an academic initiative within the Geriatric Center at Penn State that seeks to:

  • develop an interprofessional theory and model for the new field of person-centered living systems of care
  • conduct research on topics related to person-centered care (PCC)
  • infuse PCC health care service delivery across the spectrum of services (acute to post-acute to community based)

Goals

  • Develop a new integrative model of person-centered living systems of care
  • Develop infrastructure and methodologies for conducting PCC research
  • Conduct applied research on PCC topics
  • Apply best practices to innovative health delivery systems
  • Inform curriculum to educate an interprofessional workforce of future and current care providers
  • Influence policy around delivery of health care services in rural/urban, acute, post-acute, and community-based care settings

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2018 IMPACT Annual Report

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