Foulkeways Supports Gerontological Research: Frank Morgan Jones Fund, 2020 Report

FRANK MORGAN JONES FUND ~ 2020 REPORT
(see attached PDF)

Foulkeways has been a staunch supporter of gerontological research at Penn Nursing since August 1989. As one of the Philadelphia region’s premier senior living communities since 1967 (and one of the first Quaker Continuing Care Retirement Communities in the United States), Foulkeways has a vested interest in health and health care research carried out in the field of gerontology.

Ensuring that people may live healthier, more independent lives as they age is critical for senior living facilities, and Penn Nursing is well known for its gerontological education and research—making the Frank Morgan Jones Fund and the cutting edge research that it funds an essential resource for the School.

Foulkeways is proud to support and congratulate the following two recipients of the this year’s 2020 Frank Morgan Jones Fund award:

Erin Kennedy

“Determining Barriers to Achieving Optimal Post-Acute Care Destinations: A Retrospective Chart Review,” $5,000. Award period: 11/1/2019 – 10/31/2020.

Erin Kennedy is currently a first-year Ph.D. student—at the time of her Frank Morgan Jones Award (fall 2019) she was a pre-doctoral student. She currently assists the Nursing Informatics team at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and has experience as a research assistant for clinical decision support and child passenger safety studies at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Erin was the recipient of the Mary Naylor Award for Undergraduate Research in 2019.

The grant for which she received funding from the Frank Morgan Jones Fund will be used to support dissertation research and a future career in improving healthcare quality and patient health outcomes during transitions in care through the development and implementation of technologies.

Specific aims of the study:

Aim 1: Describe and compare the outcomes (readmission rates, emergency department utilization) associated with agreement or disagreement between DIRECT advice and actual discharge destination.

Aim 2: Determine the reasons for disagreement between DIRECT advice and actual discharge destination.

Aim 3: Examine the association between poor discharge outcomes and patient refusal or insurance as barriers to post-acute care destination.

Liza Behrens

“Risk Perceptions and Cultural Influences of Nursing Home Residents Receiving Preference-based Care,” $9,994. Award period: 4/1/2020 – 3/31/2021.

Liza Behrens Ph.D., RN is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, NewCourtland Center for Transitions and Health. She has more than 20 years of progressive experience providing nursing care to older adults in multiple care settings including psychiatric and medical hospitals, out-patient clinics, nursing homes, and home-based care.

The grant for which she received funding from the Frank Morgan Jones Fund in spring 2020 will be used to support a program of research that in the long-term seeks to facilitate the implementation of evidence-based, person-centered risk management strategies in the nursing home (NH) setting. The team’s overall objective in this application is to determine what daily care preferences NH residents consider risky, how they characterize that risk, and how they would like to be involved in risk mitigation strategies. The team’s rationale is two-fold, by identifying the opinions and attitudes of residents about how they perceive risks to their health and safety will 1) inform ways to better engage residents with ADRDs in decision-making around their daily care preferences; and 2) inform an intervention protocol to reduce the risk for negative health outcomes associated with honoring resident preferences for care and other activities.

Thus, the primary aim of this study is to explore the risk perceptions of NH residents associated with receiving preference-based PCC in NHs. This is based on preliminary data suggesting that consideration of a resident’s preference and their ability to understand the potential risks associated with that preference influences nursing staffs’ decision to honor the residents’ choice.

Please read the attached PDF for more information about the Frank Morgan Jones Fund and the past award recipients.