Research At Kendal

Kendal at Granville, as part of the Kendal System, is committed to collaborating with academic and service organizations to advance the science and art of care and services for older persons.

Kendal Outreach, LLC (an affiliate of the Kendal Corporation) helped initiate and develop Collage. Collage is a national membership consortium of older adult communities, including “continuing care”, “at-home” and “housing residences”, dedicated to improving the lives, well-being and health of their residents. The program provides members with a framework for systematic and integrated health and wellness assessment tools and practices combined with evidence-based interventions. Participation in Collage offers a community the opportunity to use a suite of computerized and scientifically-grounded health and wellness assessment tools to measure and track their residents on a range of dimensions. This program has been utilized and widely successful at Kendal at Granville.

Many years ago, The Kendal Corporation also initiated "Untie the Elderly." At a time when use of restraints in long term care was the norm in the United States, Kendal staff operated one of our community's health centers completely restraint-free. As their commitment to restraint free care was affirmed, staff began to share their successes with others in the field, welcoming other professionals to visit the community and learn about this restraint-free approach to care.

In 1986, Kendal staff presented the first program on restraint-free care at the annual meeting of the American Association of Homes for the Aging, and Untie the Elderly® was born. In 1989, Untie the Elderly® became a registered trademark of The Kendal Corporation. That year The Kendal Corporation and the Senate Committee on Aging co-sponsored a U.S. Senate symposium on the elimination of physical restraints in the care of older persons. Subsequent federal legislation furthered the process of eliminating restraint use.