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

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