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ASTHO and CDC's Healthy Aging Program are hosting a webinar focusing on the Healthy Aging in Action: Advancing the National Prevention Strategy report that was produced by the National Prevention, Health Promotion, and Public Health Council (National Prevention Council). This strategy report identifies specific actions for healthy aging that are continuing to improve health and well-being in later life. The webinar will feature presentations on some of the findings and lessons learned from the report.

This is the second webinar in a series of two webinars being offered for Ombudsmen. Please join the Consumer Voice for a webinar series that will discuss the application of the LTCOP Rule in daily Ombudsman program advocacy and management. The first one was held on March 29th and discussed the "LTCOP Rule: Supporting Person-Centered Advocacy - Complaint Investigations and Abuse Reporting". This webinar will look at the "LTCOP Rule: Identifying and Addressing Individual Conflicts of Interest”.

Two webinars are being offered for Ombudsmen. Please join the Consumer Voice for a webinar series that will discuss the application of the LTCOP Rule in daily Ombudsman program advocacy and management. There will be two webinars that will share resources and training materials for Ombudsman program representatives on the topics of complaint investigations and abuse reporting and individual conflicts of interest.

This webinar will provide the opportunity to: learn more about the March Jobs Report and how it fits into longer term employment trends, hear about programs and research across the country addressing employment and disability, and listen to experts in the field.

Join the AARP Public Policy Institute to learn about an innovative nursing-led model of care that is being widely hailed as a success. Presenters include Susan Reinhard, PhD, RN, FAAN, senior vice president and director of the AARP Public Policy Institute and chief strategist for the Center to Champion Nursing in America, and Lauran Hardin, MSN, RN, CNL, senior director of Cross-Continuum Transformation at the National Center for Complex Health and Social Needs.

ACL is launching an informational webinar series about the agency's commitment to and development of measures for HCBS quality. This will also provide a platform among internal and external stakeholders to share developments and collaborate on efforts concerning HCBS quality. The series will host a variety of presenters from ACL, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, National Quality Forum, SCAN Foundation, ADvancing States, and others.

The Administration for Community Living’s National Alzheimer’s and Dementia Resource Center, in collaboration with the American Society on Aging, is hosting a webinar aout Lewy Body dementia and the importance of comprehensive care and support. This webinar provides an overview of Lewy Body Dementia (LBD) and how it differs from Alzheimer’s disease and Parkinson’s. Attendees will learn the symptoms of and treatments for LBD and how the disease affects caregivers. A person living with LBD will share first-hand experiences and compensatory strategies.

Mathematica's Center for Disability Policy is hosting a webinar about state initiatives that are used to prevent long-term work disability. Every year, millions of Americans suffer from medical conditions that affect their ability to work. This puts them at risk of losing their jobs or being forced to rely on Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI). States could help many of these workers stay in their jobs, but promising options for doing this remain largely untested.