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Turning Nursing Homes into True Homes: The Household Model
Profiles the Household Model, which creates home-like environments for nursing home residents to offer greater dignity, autonomy, and infection control, as well as establishes closer, more family-type relationships between residents and staff.
State Opportunities to Build on New Federal Regulations to Increase Nursing Home Transparency
Describes a new federal rule released in November 2023 to increase transparency in nursing home operations.
What to Know about Nursing Home Staffing Minimums
Outlines current federal rules and research findings on nursing home staffing to help inform policymakers in setting nursing home staffing guidance.
Focusing on Intersectionality Can Better Support LGBTQ+ Caregivers
Explores intersectionality — the interaction of social identities and experiences — and its importance in addressing LGBTQ+ caregivers’ needs.
Engaging People with Disabilities in Health Care: Lessons from the Massachusetts One Care Program
A conversation with Dennis Heaphy, MPH, Med, MDiv, policy analyst and health justice advocate at the Massachusetts Disability Policy Consortium, about findings from a study that he co-authored on the impact of engaging members with disabilities in care planning and care coordination.
Keeping Veterans Healthy at Home: Lessons from the VA’s Home-Based Primary Care Program
Describes the Department of Veterans Affairs' successful approach to home-based primary care.
Navigating the Challenges of Cross-Sector Partnerships to Meet the Needs of Older Adults and People with Disabilities
Analyzes survey results and addresses how many community-based organizations are contracting with health care partners, the nature of these partnerships, challenges with contracting, and collaborative solutions.
The Critical Role of Area Agencies on Aging in Addressing the Health-Related Social Needs of Older Adults
Explores findings from the AAA National Survey conducted by n4a and Scripps Gerontology Center at Miami University, which shed light on the wide range of needs that AAAs address in their communities, as well as the expertise their staff bring to meet those needs.
The PACE Response to COVID-19 Calls for Policy Actions Increasing Access and Affordability
Highlights PACE programs’ efforts to redesign care during the COVID-19 pandemic and presents policy options that may help to expand access to the programs in the future.
The New Post-Acute Care Management Solution for Complex Care Patients
Highlights how skilled nursing facilities are switching to the Patient Driven Payment Model — a payment system that removes therapy minutes as the basis for payment and enhances payment accuracy for services by making reimbursement dependent on a wide range of clinical characteristics.
A Surprising Trend Among Medicare Advantage Plans
From continued enrollment growth to expanded flexibility to offer non-medical supplemental benefits, Medicare Advantage plans are playing an increasingly important role in the lives of older adults.
Special Needs Plans: A Primer on I-SNPs
Provides an overview on Special Needs Plans (SNPs), a type of Medicare Advantage plan for individuals with special needs, the types of SNPs serving different populations, and how SNPs serving institutionalized individuals are unique.
Is the Bright Line Between Acute and Non-acute Care Fading?
The "winners" in population health management will be the health plans and providers that figure out how to identify individuals with activities of daily living impairment and address their needs with comprehensive care management and targeted non-medical services.
Senior Living: The Biggest Missed Opportunity in Health Care
Although senior living organizations are primarily oriented toward housing and hospitality, there are many reasons they provide a great platform for value-based care.
Senior Living 101: A Primer on Senior Living
As ACOs and MCOs develop value-based strategies for managing a complex care population, they should get to know the organizations in their market that offer housing and services aimed at this population.
PACE 2.0: A Prime Opportunity for Delivery Systems and Payers
The Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly provides comprehensive, compassionate medical care and long-term services and supports to older adults with persistent complex needs who are eligible for nursing home care. Yet, PACE reaches less than two percent of those who could benefit from its services.
Home: Perhaps the Most Important “Care Setting”
The program, known as Community Aging in Place — Advancing Better Living for Elders (CAPABLE), is a client-directed home-based intervention to increase mobility, functionality, and capacity to “age in place” for older adults.
Topics
Series
Displaying 1 - 17 of 17
Turning Nursing Homes into True Homes: The Household Model
Profiles the Household Model, which creates home-like environments for nursing home residents to offer greater dignity, autonomy, and infection control, as well as establishes closer, more family-type relationships between residents and staff.
State Opportunities to Build on New Federal Regulations to Increase Nursing Home Transparency
Describes a new federal rule released in November 2023 to increase transparency in nursing home operations.
What to Know about Nursing Home Staffing Minimums
Outlines current federal rules and research findings on nursing home staffing to help inform policymakers in setting nursing home staffing guidance.
Focusing on Intersectionality Can Better Support LGBTQ+ Caregivers
Explores intersectionality — the interaction of social identities and experiences — and its importance in addressing LGBTQ+ caregivers’ needs.
Engaging People with Disabilities in Health Care: Lessons from the Massachusetts One Care Program
A conversation with Dennis Heaphy, MPH, Med, MDiv, policy analyst and health justice advocate at the Massachusetts Disability Policy Consortium, about findings from a study that he co-authored on the impact of engaging members with disabilities in care planning and care coordination.
Keeping Veterans Healthy at Home: Lessons from the VA’s Home-Based Primary Care Program
Describes the Department of Veterans Affairs' successful approach to home-based primary care.
Navigating the Challenges of Cross-Sector Partnerships to Meet the Needs of Older Adults and People with Disabilities
Analyzes survey results and addresses how many community-based organizations are contracting with health care partners, the nature of these partnerships, challenges with contracting, and collaborative solutions.
The Critical Role of Area Agencies on Aging in Addressing the Health-Related Social Needs of Older Adults
Explores findings from the AAA National Survey conducted by n4a and Scripps Gerontology Center at Miami University, which shed light on the wide range of needs that AAAs address in their communities, as well as the expertise their staff bring to meet those needs.
The PACE Response to COVID-19 Calls for Policy Actions Increasing Access and Affordability
Highlights PACE programs’ efforts to redesign care during the COVID-19 pandemic and presents policy options that may help to expand access to the programs in the future.
The New Post-Acute Care Management Solution for Complex Care Patients
Highlights how skilled nursing facilities are switching to the Patient Driven Payment Model — a payment system that removes therapy minutes as the basis for payment and enhances payment accuracy for services by making reimbursement dependent on a wide range of clinical characteristics.
A Surprising Trend Among Medicare Advantage Plans
From continued enrollment growth to expanded flexibility to offer non-medical supplemental benefits, Medicare Advantage plans are playing an increasingly important role in the lives of older adults.
Special Needs Plans: A Primer on I-SNPs
Provides an overview on Special Needs Plans (SNPs), a type of Medicare Advantage plan for individuals with special needs, the types of SNPs serving different populations, and how SNPs serving institutionalized individuals are unique.
Is the Bright Line Between Acute and Non-acute Care Fading?
The "winners" in population health management will be the health plans and providers that figure out how to identify individuals with activities of daily living impairment and address their needs with comprehensive care management and targeted non-medical services.
Senior Living: The Biggest Missed Opportunity in Health Care
Although senior living organizations are primarily oriented toward housing and hospitality, there are many reasons they provide a great platform for value-based care.
Senior Living 101: A Primer on Senior Living
As ACOs and MCOs develop value-based strategies for managing a complex care population, they should get to know the organizations in their market that offer housing and services aimed at this population.
PACE 2.0: A Prime Opportunity for Delivery Systems and Payers
The Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly provides comprehensive, compassionate medical care and long-term services and supports to older adults with persistent complex needs who are eligible for nursing home care. Yet, PACE reaches less than two percent of those who could benefit from its services.
Home: Perhaps the Most Important “Care Setting”
The program, known as Community Aging in Place — Advancing Better Living for Elders (CAPABLE), is a client-directed home-based intervention to increase mobility, functionality, and capacity to “age in place” for older adults.