National Forum: A Message to the President on Aging Policy On Tuesday, March 21, 2017, LTQA Executive Director, Larry Atkins, presented the keynote address at the National Forum: A Message to the President on Aging Policy at the American Society on Aging’s Aging in America Conference in Chicago. The forum consisted of presentations and panel discussions by authors about policy recommendations … Read More
Meeting the Needs of Older Adults with LTSS Integration at ASA
On Tuesday, March 24, 2017, Jennifer Windh and Anne Tumlinson presented at the American Society on Aging’s Aging in America Conference in Chicago alongside Francine Pechnik, Vice President of Long Term Care at UnitedHealthcare Community Plan, and Amy Scribner, Division Director of Community Living Services at the Institute on Aging, around LTQA case studies of successful programs that integrate LTSS … Read More
ASA Panel Slides – Anne Tumlinson
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ASA Panel Slides – Jennifer Windh
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Recording Available: LTQA Co-sponsored Caregiving Webinar with AcademyHealth’s LTSS Interest Group
On Tuesday, March 7, AcademyHealth’s Long-Term Services and Supports Interest Group with support from the Long-Term Quality Alliance hosted a free webinar on caregiving policy in the U.S. The recently released National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) report “Families Caring for an Aging America” highlights important policy recommendations for caregiving in the U.S. This webinar, “Putting Family Caregiving Policy … Read More
Future of LTSS (Part 1): Advancing Integrated Care in a Changing Landscape of Medicaid and Medicare
Part I: Dual Eligibles On March 8, 2017, LTQA invited 40 member and other stakeholder organizations to a day-long Retreat to find common ground and align around opportunities for advancing high-quality, person-centered, integrated services and supports in the new political environment. The Retreat produced a framework for further efforts to develop shared strategies across stakeholders to achieve more widespread LTSS … Read More
Slides available: “How Managed Care Can Support Family Caregivers”
LTQA arranged for Cindy Adams from Centene to present to the Long-Term Care Discussion Group on Monday, January 30 on “How Managed Care Can Support Family Caregivers.” Her slides are available here.
How Managed Care Can Support Family Caregivers – Slides
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New Releases from ASA, MedPAC/MACPAC, NASI
New Releases Generations: A Message to the President on Aging Policy (ASA) G. Lawrence Atkins, the Executive Director of LTQA, was the Guest Editor of the Winter 2016-17 issue of Generations: Journal of the American Society on Aging (ASA). This issue lays out several policy plans on important issues related to aging for the new Administration. The ASA has made this issue of Generations available … Read More
The Playbook: Better Care for People with Complex Needs
Five national health care foundations – The Commonwealth Fund, The John A. Hartford Foundation, Peterson Center on Healthcare, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and The SCAN Foundation – have partnered with the Institute for Healthcare Improvement to create the Playbook, a website containing resources about care approaches and policies to better support individuals with complex health and social needs. Read more at: www.bettercareplaybook.org