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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently approved a first-of-its-kind waiver allowing California’s Medicaid program to pay for health care services for individuals before they are released from state prisons, county jails, and youth correctional facilities. This approval partly waives the federal Medicaid inmate exclusion policy, allowing transitional care services for youth and Medicaid-eligible adults with chronic medical or behavioral health needs up to 90 days prior to release.

This webinar will provide lessons learned from the SAGE National Resource Center on LGBTQ+ Aging’s work with state units on aging and disability organizations to support the inclusion of older LGBTQ+ people in data collection, outreach, and services. It will also include a discussion panel and Q&A on LGBTQ+ aging, successful planning strategies, and actions state units on aging can take to create welcoming and inclusive aging services for LGBTQ+ elders as outlined in the OAA.

Learn about ways to increase the social engagement of older adults and people with disabilities living in rural communities and support the social connectedness of unpaid caregivers at the engAGED: The National Resource Center for Engaging Older Adults and Commit to C

NCOA will host a webinar on Thursday, March 23, 2023 that will focus on the contractual obligations of service delivery partners when offering evidence-based programs for payment. Mid-America Regional Council will share their experience managing a statewide network of service delivery partners under health care contracts. The webinar is the second in a four-part webinar series.

The webinar will take place on Thursday, March 23,2023 from 2:00 p.m. to 3:30p.m. ET.

Join NCLER for a webinar on the basics of advanced care planning. Webinar attendees will explore tools for describing personal goals, and values in an advanced care plan, identify legal aid and pro bono models to connect older adults with, and provide an overview of common advance planning tools, including power of attorney, healthcare proxies and more. 

Speakers 

• David Godfrey, ABA Commission on Law and Aging 

• Sarah Galvan, Justice in Aging 

Join Consumer Voice for a webinar highlighting the experience of nursing home residents amongst ongoing staffing challenges. Consumers will share how living in a facility with inadequate staffing affects their quality of life, and the quality of care that they receive. 

The webinar will take place on Thursday, March 23, 2023 from 2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. ET. 

Click here to register for the webinar. 

Join CMS for a webinar on the unwinding of the continuous enrollment flexibility for Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP). Attendees will receive a review of recently released CMS unwinding resources to aid in outreach effort, and have access to an extended Q&A session with CMS experts to address questions related to Medicaid renewals, Medicaid to Marketplace transitions, and more. 

The webinar will take place on Wednesday, March 22, 2023 from 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. ET. 

KFF will host a discussion on March 21st on Medicare Advantage (MA), a private plan alternative to traditional, or fee-for-service, Medicare. The discussion will cover topics on growth in MA enrollment, implications of enrollment concentrated in few insurance firms, federal government payment of MA plans, and proposed federal rules

Speakers: 

• Larry Levitt. KFF 

• Jeannie Fuglesten Biniek, KFF 

Join Applied Self Direction for the next webinar in their Self Direction From Your Desk Webinar series with a session hearing directly from family caregivers. During the COVID-19 public health emergency, many states took advantage of Appendix K flexibility to address the caregiving crisis and allow flexibilities in family caregiving. This session will present real-life experience of family caregivers and share policies that support those caregivers. 

Join Applied Self Direction for the next webinar in their Self Direction From Your Desk webinar series.  This webinar will give participants an opportunity to learn from experts and engage in a frank conversation on the sustainability of the self-directed service model from the perspective of families and family caregivers. 

The webinar will take place on Wednesday, March 29, 2023 from 2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. ET