Search and filter to find reports and briefs.
In collaboration with the city of New Bedford’s Age Friendly initiative, CADER developed and implemented a three-tier program addressing the barriers of stigma, lack of behavioral health knowledge, and insufficient workforce training in behavioral health and aging.
View the PDF ReportAfter completing this program for faith leaders, learners demonstrated statistically significant increases from pre-course to post-course in the self-assessments of their skill level across all 44 course competencies.
View the PDF ReportCADER collaborated with the Center on Aging at the University of Connecticut Health Center (UCHC) and Connecticut’s Department of Social Services to provide a competency-based online training program that addresses the core skills, knowledge, and values needed for effective practice in the Money Follows the Person (MFP) program.
View the PDF ReportBoston University’s Center for Aging and Disability Education and Research (CADER), in partnership with the Executive Office of Elder Affairs (EOEA), created and delivered an online course on Alzheimer’s Disease & Other Dementias to aging providers across Massachusetts.
View the PDF ReportThis training program provided Information and Referral specialists, Options Counselors, Councils on Aging outreach staff, and other partners in the Massachusetts No Wrong Door (NWD) system with the necessary knowledge, skills, and competencies to identify potential cognitive impairment or dementia in its early stages, communicate with individuals with dementia, refer for screening, and connect individuals with available Home and Community Based Services (HCBS) that best meet the needs of a family caring for someone with Alzheimer’s Disease or Related Disorder (ADRD).
View the PDF ReportBoston University’s Center for Aging and Disability Education and Research (CADER), in partnership with the Executive Office of Elder Affairs (EOEA), sponsored an online Behavioral Health & Aging Certificate Training Program. The training program was targeted specifically for staff with direct client responsibilities, predominately adult protective service workers.
View the PDF ReportThis program brought a university-based training program developed and delivered by BU’s CADER to almost workers across the state of New York, providing two certificates to a workforce on the frontline of delivering services to older adults and people with disabilities.
View the PDF ReportThis book offers insight into how we can continue to move towards stronger programs for both older adult and people with disabilities and that the “promise of convergence in aging and disability studies” heavily relies on learning from each other and breaking down silos so we can become a more unified voice dedicated to strengthening the lives of all people.
View the PDF ReportCADER partnered with the Center on Aging at the University of Connecticut Health Center (UCHC) and Connecticut’s Department of Social Services to provide a competency-based online training program that addresses the core skills, knowledge, and values needed for effective practice in the Money Follows the Person program.
View the PDF ReportServices for older adults and younger people with disabilities are increasingly merging, as reflected in the creation of Aging and Disability Resource Centers (ADRCs). Using institutional logics theory and a qualitative research design, this study explored whether a unified service delivery philosophy for ADRCs was emerging.
View the PDF Report