Webinar

The Aging and Disability Business Institute is hosting a webinar on the Flourish Care model. The Flourish Care model developed partnerships between primary care practices, local area agencies on aging and community coalitions to promote effective care coordination and quality care for older adults in rural areas. This is a shared-care approach to healthcare and functions from the belief that health is more than just visiting a primary care physician and taking medications.

I&R/A professionals across the country are receiving more calls for assistance from individuals with mental health conditions, often in conjunction with other complex needs. At the same time, mental health services are among the most frequently reported unmet service needs. Join this webinar to learn more about serving older adults with mental health conditions and capacity-building initiatives for this population.

This webinar will provide an overview of frontotemporal degeneration (FTD) disorders and how they differ from Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias. Presenters will discuss the symptoms, approaches to care and importance of support for the family system. An individual living with FTD and his wife will also share their experiences and strategies for maintaining quality of lifeThis webinar will provide an overview of frontotemporal degeneration (FTD) disorders and how they differ from Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias.

Over the last two months, the HCBS Business Acumen Center webinar series has described how Community Based Organizations (CBO) serving people with disabilities can prepare their organizations for the future by gathering information about their current business environment through an environmental scan and SWOT analysis and using that information to develop their strategic plan.

The Aging and Disability Business Institute is hosting a webinar to describe the partnership between Peninsula Regional Medical Center and MAC, Inc., (Maintaining Active Citizens) Area Agency on Aging (AAA) and its Living Well Center of Excellence. Presenters will discuss the value this partnership brings to the AAA, the healthcare system, providers and, most importantly, to the people being served.

ACL is hosting a webinar to ensure that lead state representatives and other professionals throughout the Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) community have an opportunity to hear from ACL about their vision and to begin identifying strategies for implementing person-centered principles in the development of state TBI infrastructure. ACL’s Shawn Terrell will discuss an overview of what constitutes person-centered principles.

The CMS Medicare-Medicaid Coordination Office (MMCO), in collaboration with The Lewin Group and the American Geriatrics Society, is holding a webinar discussing Interdisciplinary Care Teams for Older Adults.

This webinar will teach participants to:

NCI-AD co-directors April Young and Julie Bershadsky will begin the webinar with a brief overview of the NCI-AD program. Select states will then share their experience with the NCI-AD program and how they are utilizing survey data. Time for Q&A will be allotted.

The National Center on Law and Elder Rights (NCLER) is hosting a webinar on the Medicare Savings Program (MSP). The presenters will provide an overview of the eligibility requirements for MSPs, how to help clients enroll in MSPs, and the benefits of the different MSP programs. This webinar will also describe the MSP programs, including, Qualified Medicare Beneficiary (QMB), Specified Low-Income Beneficiary (SLMB), Qualified Individual (QI), and Qualified Disabled Working Individual (QDWI).

The Kaiser Family Foundation is hosting a webinar on payment and delivery system reforms in Medicare. Presenters will explore the latest evidence on savings and quality among various payments models (including ACO, medical home, and bundled payment models). They will also discuss future directions that CMS may consider to lower costs and improve care in the coming years.