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This webinar provides additional information regarding the 2020 Medicare Advantage Learning Collaborative (MALC)

About the MALC:

State agencies make many program decisions based upon data that they collect. This means that if certain populations are not accurately represented in data, key services may not be adequately considered, funded, or delivered. This webinar will cover the importance of collecting data that addresses the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning (LGBTQ) community to ensure that their needs are planned for.

ADvancing States will host an upcoming webinar on the essential components of critical incident management.

States operating Medicaid waiver programs are required to safeguard consumers against critical incidents such as abuse, neglect, exploitation, and unexplained death. Yet there is no federally defined term for “critical incident.” This webinar will explore what constitutes a critical incident, and the steps your agency should take to protect your citizens from harm and your state from liability. You will learn:

This webinar will provide an overview of the intersection of aging and the opioid epidemic. It will specifically address issues around treatment as they relate to American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) communities. Participants will also learn about the national resource Opioid Response Network. 

Presenters: 

Benjamin H. Nguyen, MSW, ASW, CPH Technology Transfer Specialist

Joan Kandel, DO, FAAFP Treatment Consultant

Holly Echo-Hawk, MSc Core Consultant

This webinar will discuss the challenges of traveling by air for individuals living with paralysis. It will describe the alternative options of road or train transport and review the advantages and disadvantages of both modes of travel. Participants will learn about destinations available through railways and roadways, road trips with a vehicle, intercity bus services, and train travel in the U.S.

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N4a previously conducted a poll on how Area Agencies on Aging (AAAs) across the country have adapted to serve growing numbers of individuals with dementia and their caregivers. The poll also asked AAAs about the development of initiatives related to brain health. This webinar will review the results of the poll and highlight innovative programs from AAAs. 

This webinar will review the results from the 2018 PACE Mystery Shopper Study. This study used mystery shoppers in six states to asses the accuracy of PACE awareness in counselors supporting LTSS beneficiaries. The six states included in this study are: California, Massachusetts, Michigan, New York, North Carolina and Pennsylvania. 

Click here to access the 2018 study. 

Cultural competence is widely recognized as essential to the delivery of high quality and effective services and supports by policy makers, health, mental health and social service professionals, educators, and researchers. This NCAPPS webinar will describe the importance of integrating cultural competence with person-centered thinking, planning, and practice. Participants will learn a framework for cultural competence at the individual and organizational levels and hear examples of organizations putting this into practice.

This webinar will provide an overview of the Long-Term Care Ombudsman Program and the program's data collection, known as the National Ombudsman Reporting System (NORS). Participants will learn how this data is used to inform policy and practice. The webinar will also provide an introduction to the AGing Integrated Database (AGID), an online query system based on ACL-related data files and surveys. AGID includes NORS data and can display different levels of focus and aggregation, from individual data elements to full database access.

NCOA's Center for Benefits Access is hosting their annual webinar to review the changes in Medicare for the coming year. During this webinar, presenters will review the landscape of Medicare Advantage and Part D plans in the coming year, explain what people can expect to pay for coverage, discuss how  people with Medicare can maximize their savings during the Open Enrollment Period (Oct. 15 - Dec. 7), and provide an overview of "hot" issues.

The recoridng and slides from this webinar will be made available after the fact.