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Causes: Human Services, Senior Centers, Seniors
Mission: To promote high quality assisted living and to serve as an objective national clearinghouse for research, practices, and policies that foster quality and affordability in assisted living.
Programs: Ceal promotes high-quality assisted living by (1) serving as a convener, bringing together diverse stakeholders to examine issues related to assisted living including an advisory council that met 3 times in 2014; (2) bridging research, practice and policy gaps that foster quality and affordability; and, (3) maintaining an objective national center of information and resources about assisted living at http://www. Theceal. Org/assisted-living-resource-center. Ceal activities in 2014 included co-publication with unc of an informational guide and questionnaires designed to advance person-centered practices in assisted living (pc-pal). Also, in october ceal hosted an invitational symposium in washington dc entitled, "the future of assisted living: consumer preference and the era of health care reform".