Webinar

Starting Tuesday, May 9, 2023 join engAGED and Commit to Connect for the Social Engagement virtual summit. The summit will run from Tuesday, May 9 to Wednesday, May 10 bringing together national, state, and local leaders for sessions highlighting innovative programs, new research, and tools and resources for the aging and disability network. Sessions will dive deep into social engagement with rural communities, supporting social connectedness, the needs of unpaid caregivers, and share innovative solutions and spur ideas for your community. 

Join Applied Self Direction for the next webinar in their “Self Direction From Your Desk” series. Frequently those with dual diagnoses, complex behavioral challenges, or significant intellectual disability are told that their cases are too complex to self direct. In this webinar participants will hear from the parents of three clients about the immense benefits and flexibilities that self-direction has in the lives of those choosing to self direct. 

Join Applied Self Direction for the next webinar in their “Self Direction From Your Desk” series. In the session Beyond the Basics: Advancing High Quality Self-Direction in a Managed Care Context attendees will hear from leaders in the managed care world to discuss best practices and new methods of improving self direction in a managed care context. The webinar will dive deep into, financial management systems, enrollment patterns, and effective approaches for partnerships between states, MCOs, and self directing clients. 

As part of Senior Nutrition Month, ACL’s Office of Nutrition and Health Promotion Programs (ONHPP) is hosting a webinar to celebrate the 51st anniversary of the national Senior Nutrition Program, which is funded by the Older Americans Act. This virtual event will recognize the program's impact and discuss how to continue innovating to advance the critical services the program provides to older adults in communities across the country.

Join Sellers Dorsey for a webinar on their recently published report 2022 State of Medicaid Managed Care. The webinar will spotlight the six states and six managed care organizations sharing their unique perspectives on implementing managed care throughout the United States.

The first webinar will take place on Thursday, March 16, 2023 from 2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. ET 

The National Center to Reframe Aging (National Center) will be hosting a Changing the Conversation webinar series. This four-part webinar series will provide audiences with a “quick start” to framing, hot topics related to implicit bias towards aging, and tools from the National Center. 

LTQA and ATI Advisory will host a webinar titled “A Deep Dive on In-Home Support Services, Caregiver Supports, and Social Needs Benefits: How Medicare Advantage Plans are Using These Benefits to Meaningfully Meet Members’ Needs”. To advance understanding of these benefits, LTQA and ATI Advisory, with support from The SCAN Foundation, have analyzed Medicare Advantage plans’ benefits designed to resemble Medicaid benefits to support Long Term Services and Supports (LTSS) needs – in-home support services (IHSS), caregiver supports, and social needs benefits.

Justice in Aging will host a webinar on protecting consumers from evictions as states continue to implement the HCBS settings rule. The webinar will provide a high-level overview of the HCBS settings rule, define the eviction protections outlined in the Rule, and offer a baseline of the level of legal knowledge around eviction protections for older adults.

Speakers:

• Eric Carlson: Long-Term Services and Supports Advocacy
• Hannah Diamond; Policy Advocate
• Jennifer Kye; Senior Attorney

Justice in Aging will host a webinar on Supplemental Security Income (SSI) and ABLE accounts, including information and training on SSI and ABLE account basics, how ABLE accounts can increase financial independence for those receiving SSI payments, how ABLE accounts interact with SSI and Medicaid, and resources and tools.  The webinar is directed towards advocates working with older adults and people with disabilities, including SSI beneficiaries.

The webinar will take place on Wednesday, March 8, 2023 from 2:00 p.m. to 3:15 p.m. ET. 

Throughout the month Health Affairs has issued a series of articles on the broader implications of COVID-19, join Health Affairs for a briefing exploring all of those papers and exploring the broader implications and common themes across all papers. The webinar will discuss, trends in the workforce, mitigating community spread of COVID-19 in congregate settings, and modernization recommendations. 

Confirmed speakers include: