New free training course helps reframe conversations about nursing home care
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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 16-Jun-2025 13:09 ET (16-Jun-2025 17:09 GMT/UTC)
A free, on-demand course provides research-backed strategies to reshape public perceptions and elevate the value of nursing home care. The training, developed by the National Center to Reframe Aging in partnership with the FrameWorks Institute and LeadingAge, is available to organizations that serve and care for older adults, advocates, and anyone communicating about nursing homes in the United States.
Overdose prevention centers (OPCs) offer life-saving interventions in the event of an overdose along with on-site harm reduction services. While studies of OPCs in other countries have shown that they can reduce overdose deaths without increasing crime, they remain a novel concept in the United States. Before the recent opening of the nation’s first state-sanctioned OPC, researchers at the Brown University School of Public Health surveyed people living and working in the Providence, Rhode Island, neighborhood where it is located, to ask about their perceptions of the center. They found that 74% of survey participants supported an OPC opening in their neighborhood and 81% supported an OPC elsewhere in the city, while 13% expressed neutrality. The results of the survey are published in the Journal of Urban Health.