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  • The Quality Improvement Program for Missouri's Long - Term Care Facilities (QIPMO) is committed to Missouri's Elderly.

  • The "Aging-in-place" model allows older adults to receive health care in their preferred place of living, eliminating the need for a more restricted living space, such as a nursing home.

  • TigerPlace is a specially designed elder housing project initiated by the MU Sinclair School of Nursing, working to provide elders a better quality of life.

Clinical Topics

Much of the research conducted by our research teams has focused on a variety of topics with clinical implications for improving care for elders. Some include, Pain Management, Quality Measures and Indicators, depression, pressure ulcer prevention and management, activity, and new approaches to improve care.

Clinical Topic Articles

Quality documentation for long term care: A nursing diagnosis approach
Nursing quality measurement: A review of nursing studies
Classification of nursing diagnosis proceedings of the eleventh conference of the North American Nursing Diagnosis Association
Classification of nursing diagnosis proceedings of the twelfth conference of the North American Nursing Diagnosis Association
Using MDS quality indicators to improve outcomes
Outcome-based quality improvement for long-term care: Using MDS, process, and outcome measures

All Research Grants

List all Research & Projects Grants
Project Title: Technology to Automatically Detect Falls and Assess Fall Risk in Senior Housing
Summary: This application integrates the specialized talents and perspectives of an interdisciplinary team of scientists from the he...
Principal Investigator:  Marilyn Rantz
Dates of Project Period: 9/30/09-7/31/13
Total Amount: $1,989,438
Project Title: CPS: Medium: Active Heterogeneous Sensing for Fall Detection and Fall Risk Assessment
Summary: The project objectives are to investigate 1) adaptive, active, anonymized vision sensing for monitoring elders in a home se...
Principal Investigator:  Marjorie Skubic
Dates of Project Period: 9/1/09-8/31/12
Total Amount: $1,409,963
Project Title: Technology to Automatically Detect Early Signs of Illness in Senior Housing
Summary: Building on our current work using intelligent sensor systems to retrospectively measure functional ability in older adults...
Principal Investigator:  Marilyn Rantz
Dates of Project Period: 8/13/09-7/31/2012
Total Amount: $404,592
Project Title: Multilevel Interventions to Improve Nursing Home Outcomes
Summary: In this study, we seek to improve the outcomes of residents by transforming poorly performing nursing home staffs into good...
Principal Investigator:  Marilyn Rantz
Dates of Project Period: 5/1/05-2/28/11
Total Amount: $2,888,334
Project Title: The ACTIVE Intervention to Improve Hospice Caregiver Pain Management
Summary: In congruence with the mission of NINR to promote and improve the health of individuals, families, communities, and popula...
Principal Investigator:  Debra Oliver
Dates of Project Period: 9/15/10-6/30/14
Total Amount: $2,105,700