This webinar will introduce the memory café model and discuss key features of a successful network. Presenters will review real-life examples, including how this model works in Florida and Massachusetts. The webinar will also emphasize the importance of a culturally responsive and linguistically appropriate memory café model in reaching minority individuals living with dementia.
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This webinar is focused on navigating the benefits covered under Medicare Part B and understanding the basics of accessing these benefits. This webcast will look at three areas that can often cause confusion: Advance Beneficiary Notice, Part B Drugs, and Durable Medical Equipment. Note: this is an advanced training and assumes participants have a general understanding of Medicare benefits.
Presenter: Georgia Burke, Directing Attorney, Justice in Aging
This NCAPPS webinar will describe the importance of trauma-informed approaches to person-centered practices. It will explore the intersection of trauma and person-centered thinking, planning, and practice. Participants will learn about actionable steps they can take to ensure that they consider trauma when engaging in person-centered thinking, planning, and practices.
Presenters:
Karyn Harvey
Cath Cave
Tanya M. Richmond
Aimee Ortiz-Day
Michael Smull
This webinar provides additional information regarding the 2020 Medicare Advantage Learning Collaborative (MALC)
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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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