The Administration for Community Living (ACL) invites people with disabilities, advocates, and their disability network to submit comments on the recent FDA Workshop to Enhance Clinical Study Diversity. This workshop included discussions focused on the inclusion of people with disabilities, with a focus on people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD).
USAging’s Aging and Disability Business Institute has extended the deadline to participate in their latest Community-Based Organization and Health Care Contracting Survey. This survey is open to all types of aging and disability community-based organizations (CBOs) and networks regardless of whether they are currently contracting with a health care entity. It aims to help understand how CBOs and networks are contracting with health care entities to provide services to older adults and people with disabilities in a rapidly evolving market.
Join the American Society on Aging (ASA) for an upcoming live event titled “Talking Aging Tuesday: A Conversation Confronting.” This session will discuss the importance of language in addressing systemic ageism and advocating for inclusive policies. Beyond Generations will facilitate a discussion on strategies to influence policy and advocacy initiatives, aiming to dismantle ageist structures present in societal frameworks at systemic and individual levels.
The Center for Health Care Strategies (CHCS), in collaboration with the Kaiser Permanente National Community Benefit Fund at The East Bay Community Foundation, has announced its upcoming "Medicaid Health-Related Social Needs Implementation Learning Series." This initiative aims to assist up to nine Medicaid agencies in developing, implementing, or refining high-impact initiatives to address health-related social needs (HRSN).
Justice in Aging invites aging and disability advocates and aging network professionals to an upcoming webinar titled “Resident Rights in Medicaid-Funded Assisted Living and Group Homes.” This webinar will explore recently implemented federal protections for persons with disabilities living in group homes or other residential facilities.
The Alliance for Health Policy is hosting an upcoming webinar to provide an overview of dually eligible populations and discuss key programs and coverage arrangements that coordinate care for beneficiaries. This webinar aims to help attendees understand what it is like to navigate as a dually eligible individual, including what works and what doesn’t from a first-person perspective. It will also describe the heterogeneity of dually eligible populations and how people become dually eligible, including definitions, demographics, and paths to eligibility.
The American Society on Aging (ASA) is hosting an upcoming webinar titled “Team Approaches to High-Quality, Patient-Centered Palliative Care.” This presentation will define palliative care as a medical service that acknowledges the person beyond their disease process. The discussion will cover multidisciplinary, patient-centered team approaches to meet the comprehensive needs of seriously ill patients, reduce the burden of symptoms, and improve quality of life.
Join the American Society on Aging (ASA) for an upcoming webinar exploring the relationship between depression and dementia. This session will focus on the evolving relationship between depression and dementia, emphasizing the influence of recurrent depressive episodes on the potential development of dementia. Attendees will have the opportunity to examine various modifiable risk factors for dementia, effective interventions and strategies for addressing depression, and specialized considerations tailored to high-risk populations.
The National Center on Law & Elder Rights (NCLER) is hosting an upcoming webinar titled "Elder Abuse Basics: Civil Legal Responses." This webinar will focus on how legal assistance providers can support older adults who have experienced abuse, neglect, or exploitation.
This basics training will focus on how legal assistance providers can work to:
Join the National Council on Aging's (NCOA) Modernizing Senior Centers Resource Center and the National Center to Reframe Aging for an interactive virtual summit exploring ways to effectively communicate about senior centers. The summit will provide information, resources, examples, and activities that participants can use to enhance the image of their center and be an agent of change in combatting ageism in their community.
After attending this summit, participants will be able to:
