Long Term Living Project Mission One of the great health success stories is that Americans are living longer and living better than ever before. Yet a gap is growing between the quality of healthcare Americans could have and what many Americans are receiving from the current system.

Robert Egge Project Director

The quality gap is growing even faster for senior healthcare services making the approaching wave of aging seniors one of America’s greatest opportunities and greatest challenges.

The mission of the Long Term Living Project is to prepare Americans to embrace this looming demographic shift as an opportunity to revitalize this critical component of the country’s health system.

Long Term Living Project Goals

• To create an intelligent health system that is prevention-focused, with the fundamental goal of allowing every American to live as long as he or she can in active, good health.
• To communicate a vision of a transformed system that allows for the longest period of independent living with the highest quality of life and, when necessary, the most current medical treatment.
• To ensure all aspects of the long term care system are dignified, empowering, and compassionate, in keeping with the respect that America’s seniors deserve.

Long Term Living Project Priorities

• To draw on Newt Gingrich’s service as co-chair on the National Commission for Quality Long-term Care to communicate and encourage the adoption of the Center’s vision for improving the country’s long-term care system.
• To redefine Medicare as a system with the first priority of keeping seniors active and healthy for as long as possible while, together with Medicaid, providing excellent, compassionate acute and long-term care to those that need it.
• In conjunction with the Right to Know project, to ensure that there is robust information about the quality and cost of Long-term Care services so that seniors and those who care for them can make wise, informed decisions, and so that superior providers are recognized and rewarded for their services.
• Together with the Health Information Technology Project, to encourage long-term care facilities to adopt appropriate, interoperable health information technology to encourage continuity of care as seniors move across the spectrum of service options.
• Sharing transformational solutions, processes, and policies with businesses, government leaders, health professionals, the media and other opinion leaders to accelerate their adoption and use in the marketplace.

To learn more about the Long Term Living Project, please contact Robert Egge at (202) 375-2001 or info@healthtransformation.net.