Care2Learn Makes Donation to the Foundation for the Advancement of Elder and Disabled Care to Launch Long-Term Care Study

Care2Learn, a national provider of online training and continuing education for healthcare professionals, has made a donation to the Foundation for the Advancement of Elder and Disabled Care to help underwrite the costs of a Consumer Expectations Study, being conducted by the American Health Care Association and the National Center for Assisted Living. This is the first such study in long-term care, to determine consumer expectations of care and services in nursing facilities and assisted living care.

The long-term care sector of healthcare will begin to see an influx of seniors from the post World-War II “Baby Boom” era in about ten years, and inundated in coming decades. Although the profession will face enormous challenges to successfully accommodate this influx of residents and their families, very little research has been conducted in the area of consumer preferences and expectations and how these differ by generation. To prepare for the future population explosion, the profession needs to fully understand the upcoming changes and learn how to remold itself to meet the needs of seniors and their families.

According to Laura More, Chief Executive Officer and partner of Care2Learn, “Our donation will help raise the necessary funds to initiate this ground-breaking study, which will enable our profession to better meet consumer needs now and in the future. This important research project will study the care and living preferences that residents and their families will seek when selecting and transitioning to long term care facilities.”

About AHCA

The American Health Care Association (AHCA) is a non-profit federation of affiliated state health organizations. With the National Center for Assisted Living (NCAL), AHCA/NCAL represent more than 10,000 non-profit and for-profit assisted living, nursing facility, developmentally-disabled, and subacute care providers that care for more than 1.5 million elderly and disabled individuals nationally.

About Care2Learn

Care2Learn is based in Bradenton, Florida. Founded in 2000 by professionals from the long-term care rehabilitation industry, Care2Learn provides engaging, affordable, easy-to-use online continuing education for healthcare professionals by means of their state-of-the-art learning management system and extensive content library. More than 67,000 users have been served with over 1700 accredited course hours for 16 healthcare disciplines. Care2Learn serves healthcare professionals and their employers worldwide by building online universities for training and education. For further information, visit www.Care2Learn.com.