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Financial Elder Abuse: Protection Tools & Tips from the Experts

Event Description: 
This webinar will feature speakers from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation, and the California Elder Justice Coalition discussing collaborations between federal and state organizations to protect consumers. The webinar will also include best practices to prevent and respond to financial abuse.
 
This webinar will be held Thursday, September 23 at 1:00 p.m. ET. 
 

Focus on Aging / Federal Partners' Webinar: End-of-Life Care

Event Description: 
This webinar is the most recent installment of a series created in partnership with ACL, CDC, the Health Resources and Services Administration, and the National Institute on Aging. The September webinar will explore unique end of life care considerations for individuals with dementia. The presentation will include sections on evidence and goal based decision making, palliative care, partnering with staff and families to improve advance care planning for residents of VA community living centers with dementia, and the indigenous perspective on end of life.
 

ADA National Network Learning Session: Preparing Physicians to Care for People with Disabilities: Core Competencies and the ADA

Event Description: 
This webinar aims to help health care providers be more prepared and comfortable when treating patients with disabilities. This learning session focuses on six core competencies developed by people with disabilities, disability researchers, health educators, and health care advocates. Learning these competencies should better prepare the healthcare workforce to provide health care to individuals with disabilities.
 
Registration closes on Wednesday, September 22 at 11:59 p.m. ET.
 

Social Isolation and Lonliness Among Caregivers

Event Description: 
This is the final webinar in a four-part series that discusses research related to social isolation and loneliness among people with disabilities hosted by the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research. Join this session to hear from speakers about social isolation and loneliness specifically among caregivers during the pandemic.
 

History in the Making: Congressional Proposals to Improve Medicare & Medicaid

Event Description: 
NCOA is hosting a webinar to discuss key legislation poised to strengthen Medicare and Medicaid. Speakers will provide an overview of the legislation and the major impacts the legislation will have on Medicaid and Medicare programs that provide services to older adults and people with disabilities. Webinar participants can also expect to learn how they can advocate for the improvement of these services and add their own voice to help get the legislation passed.
 

History in the Making: Congressional Proposals to Improve Medicare & Medicaid

Event Description: 

NCOA is hosting a webinar to discuss key legislation poised to strengthen Medicare and Medicaid. Speakers will provide an overview of the legislation and the major impacts the legislation will have on Medicaid and Medicare programs that provide services to older adults and people with disabilities. Webinar participants can also expect to learn how they can advocate for the improvement of these services and add their own voice to help get the legislation passed.

Presenters for this webinar include:

Recharging Resiliency Together: Virtual Workshop for People with Paralysis

Event Description: 

This workshop from the Human Development Institute at the University of Kentucky in partnership with the Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation aims to educate people with paralysis on the latest in assistive technology and explore the role of universal design in quality of life.

Speakers:

  • Christina Espinosa-Bard, MRC, CRC, HDI Division Director

  • Jason Jones, Disability Specialist

This webinar will be held Wednesday, September 15, 2021 at 1:00 p.m. ET.

The Vital Role of Health Care Payers in Addressing Social Determinants of Health to Advance Equity

Event Description: 
This webinar will explore policies and practices that payers can use to help providers better address patients’ social needs, such as food and housing access, to improve their overall health. The webinar will include discussion of when targeted payment incentives are effectives and lessons learned by payers who have implemented policies to address social determinants of health.
 
Speakers:
  • Sinsi Hernández-Cancio, National Partnership for Women & Families (moderator)
  • Chris DeMars, Oregon Health Authority

NICOA Tribal LTSS National Resource Center Webinar

Event Description: 
This webinar will share information about the NCIOA Tribal Long-Term Services and Supports (LTSS) National Resource Center, which seeks to improve LTSS for Native elders. This webinar will provide an overview of the project, help attendees understand the continuum-of-care concept as it relates to LTSS, and discuss webinar trainings and other activities based on the results of a survey of tribal leaders.
 
This webinar will be held on Wednesday, September 22, 2021 at 2:00 p.m. ET.
 

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