| Item Listing | PACE Helps Seniors Stay At Home Date: March 31, 2008
A relatively new way of caring for frail senior citizens is beginning to catch on in Kansas. It’s called PACE—Program of All-inclusive Care for the Elderly—and it’s a lot different than nursing home care. As part of our series, “Kansas Health: A Prescription for Change”, Health Reporter Bryan Thompson spoke with Karren Weichert(WIKE-urt), who operates the Midland PACE Program in Topeka.
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Karren Weichert is in charge of the Midland PACE Program, in Topeka. She spoke with Kansas Public Radio’s Bryan Thompson. For more information about PACE -- the Program of All-inclusive Care for the Elderly... just visit our website at kpr.ku.edu. Click on the “Health Series” link. That’s kpr.ku.edu.
Funding for the health series on Kansas Public Radio is provided by the Sunflower Foundation of Topeka, and by the Kansas Health Foundation of Wichita.
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