The Medicare Rights Center is hosting a webinar that can help you know what actions to take if your prescription is denied at the pharmacy. This webinar will cover the steps to take when navigating the Part D appeals process, and also discuss:
World Elder Abuse Awareness Day (WEAAD) is an opportunity to draw attention to the issue of elder abuse and to encourage action in communities. Measuring the impact of WEAAD efforts can help show funders, policy makers, researchers, and others how and why these events are important.
Join ACL on Tuesday, May 2, 2017 from 1:00 – 2:00 p.m. ET for a webinar on how to measure the impact of your WEAAD events using a logic model.
As part of the Aging and Disability Business Institute Series, ASA is hosting a webinar on how the world of health and long-term-care delivery is shifting from the fee-for-service model to one of pay-for-performance, and what community-based organizations (CBOs) can do to be part of this changing landscape. This webinar will help participants:
Health care delivery systems are increasingly incorporating alternative roles into care teams, including community health workers, volunteers, neighborhood navigators, community paramedics, or pharmacists, so that systems can better serve individuals with complex medical and social needs.
This webinar will examine what the data says has happened nearly 28 years after the United States Supreme Court decided in Olmstead v. L.C. that unjustified segregation of persons with disabilities constitutes discrimination in violation of title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).
In 2015, only 42% of eligible seniors participated in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). The Elderly Simplified Application Project (ESAP), which is currently operating in eight states, is a collection of policy and process changes that can streamline enrollment of low-income seniors into SNAP. Benefits Data Trust (BDT) and NCOA produced an advocate’s guide that educates state-based aging and anti-hunger advocates about ESAP and suggests ways they can engage their state agency leaders to create ESAPs.
Justice in Aging is offering a webinar on, Reverse Mortgage Servicing & Foreclosure: Emerging Issues, to outline issues facing reverse mortgage borrowers and offer strategies to address the challenges. Reverse mortgages help allow older homeowners to age in place, but recently there has been an uptick in reverse mortgage foreclosures due to property charge defaults and other issues. This problem can lead to the displacement of older adults from their homes. This webinar will discuss recent changes to the Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM) program.
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”.
