Provides valuable insights into implementation models and tools designed to support individuals living with dementia and their caregivers, ultimately enhancing their quality of life.

The Better Care Playbook spoke with Elder Angela Overton, Senior Advisor and Director of Faith Community Partnerships at the Coalition to Transform Advanced Care, to discuss the Louisville Community Model of Care Project.

Highlights recent findings on the effectiveness of medically tailored meals and the impacts these programs have on hospitalizations, patient costs, and clinical outcomes, and also outlines implementation considerations.

State policymakers can use this resource roundup to understand emerging best practices for member engagement, with a focus on adults with complex needs.

Offers insight into the evidence base on carving-in behavioral health care into managed care and considerations for states interested in implementing this approach.

Explores evidence on the effectiveness of medical respite care and the impacts this approach has on patient outcomes, hospital visits, and costs.

Highlights how community HUBs support community health workers in addressing individuals’ health and social needs through a standardized approach and outcomes-based payment to foster community-level change.

Sharon Bean and Ernest Egu, MD, discuss their corrections-health partnership that has reduced the risk of overdose among people leaving jail by offering medication for addiction treatment.

Colleen McGregor and Kurt Sheppard from Banner University Health Plan discuss how the plan has promoted and sustained member and community engagement through their member advisory councils and committees.

Breaks down CMS’ new payment model for comprehensive dementia care, explores the Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) model, and highlights resources available to help GUIDE providers succeed.

Understand the implications of a recent federal rule designed to enhance care coordination for people with substance use disorder by allowing greater information-sharing among providers.

Kathryn Jantz from HealthBegins, discusses how health care organizations and community-based organizations can use an return on investment calculator to support partnerships that address patients’ health-related social needs.

Profiles the Serious Illness Care Program, a model that supports providers in having proactive, emotionally safe conversations with seriously ill patients about their values and goals, to better guide end-of-life care.

Understand emerging evidence around the reimbursement of caregiver training services and explore resources for building successful caregiver training programs.

Highlights the CCBHC model, it’s unique financing approach, and two CCBHC programs in New York City and Oklahoma.

Profiles the Program to Encourage Active, Rewarding Lives (PEARLS), an evidence-based treatment program for older adults experiencing late-life depression, and how the program is decreasing access barriers to behavioral health services for older adults.

Health care organizations and policymakers interested in understanding the evidence behind the use of telehealth in MOUD treatment can explore this Playbook Evidence Roundup.

Laura Gottlieb, founding co-director of the Social Interventions Research and Evaluation Network, discusses emerging evidence on social care interventions and identifies pathways through which social care programs likely impact health.

Breaks down CMS’ new nursing staffing requirements, including how states will need to respond. And highlights research findings that are important for policymakers to understand related to nursing home staffing.

Explores emerging evidence on how telehealth impacts access to care and what resources exist to advance equitable telehealth access.