Monday, September, 15, 2014
8:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Pre-Conference Intensives
- Managed Long-Term Services and Supports
- Information & Referral/Assistance Retreat
- CMS Intensive Review of the new 1915(i) and 1915(c) HCBS
- Abuse, Neglect, & Exploitation: Prevention and Prosecution
- Money Follows the Person and Balancing Incentive Program
- TEFT Demonstration—How CMS is Supporting Measures Development and Health Information Technology Advancements in Community-Based LTSS System
- Department of Labor (DOL) Fair Labor Standards Rule
Tuesday, September 16, 2014
8:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. Welcome Plenary Regency Ballroom
Administration on Aging: Past, Present, and Future
Presenters: Kathy Greenlee, Administrator, Administration for Community Living and Assistant Secretary for Aging, Administration on Aging, HHS; Former Assistant Secretary for Aging Josefina Carbonell, Senior Vice President of Nutrition, Independent Living Services; and Former Assistant Secretary for Aging Jeanette C. Takamura, Dean, School of Social Work, Columbia University
10:15 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. Workshops
- ACL: Empowering Beneficiaries through Education and Advocacy: The Role of the Duals Demonstration Ombudsman Program in Integrated Models
- ACL: Building Respect and Dignity for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Older Americans in Long-Term Care
- CMS: Medicaid 101: Overview of the Program
- Exemplar Lifespan Respite States: An Experiment in Sustainability
- AARP Long-Term Services and Supports Scorecard
- Models of Community Based Service Coordination for Vulnerable Behavioral Health Populations
- Behavioral Health and Intellectual Disability Populations being Served in Medicaid Managed Long-Term Services and Support Programs—Program Design for Sustainable Financing, Improved Community Integration/Recovery and Resiliency-Oriented Programs and Operational Implementation
- Prioritizing and Targeting Nutrition Services to Address Nutritional Risk
- Assisted Living in an HCBS Framework: Implementing the New Federal Rules, and Looking to the Future
- The New Volunteer Paradigm: A Livable Community-Based Approach
- Managing Mom's Money: Helping Financial Caregivers While Protecting Mom
- Oral Health: Ensuring Dental Coverage for America's Older Adults
1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. Plenary
CMS Trends and Challenges in LTSS
Barbara Edwards, Director, Disabled and Elderly Health Programs Group, CMS
2:45 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. Workshops
- ACL: Building the Business Acumen of the Aging and Disability Networks
- CMS: Medicaid 201: Home and Community-Based Services within Medicaid
- A Day Late and A Dollar Short: A Financial Education Guide and Tools for Under-Financed Older Adults
- The New Companionship Exemption Rules: Impacts and Implications for States, Participants and Workers
- Family Caregivers: What Are We So Afraid Of?
- The Impact of the ACA Insurance Requirement on Medicaid Dependent Employers—A Panel Discussion
- A Picture of Housing and Health: Medicare and Medicaid Use Among Older Adults in HUD Assisted Housing
- How States Can Use Data From the National Core Indicators to Look at Indicators of Community-Based Settings as Defined by the New CMS Home and Community-Based Regulations
- Pursuing Justice—Overcoming Barriers that Hinder Criminal Prosecution of Elder Abuse
- Innovation Track: Pharmacogenomics-guided Treatment for Improved Patient Care—Companion Dx
- Promoting Healthy Aging: The Science Behind the Evidence of Nutrition Findings from USDA's Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging
4:15 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. Workshops
- ACL: Living Well With Dementia
- ACL: The Transition of the State Health Insurance Program (SHIP) from CMS to ACL: Setting A New Course for the SHIP
- CMS: Managed Long-Term Services and Supports—An Overview of CMS' Policy Initiatives
- Changing Tides: The Role of Professional Case Managers in Self-Directed Support Programs
- Statewide Adoption of Positive Behavioral Supports in the Massachusetts Developmental Disabilities Service System
- Program, Policy and Resource Review and Maximization Initiative for the Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare (DPW)
- Improving Access to Safe and Inclusive Services for LGBT Adults
- Supporting Meaningful Employment Initiatives
- Integrating a Personal Health Record with Statewide Waiver Management Software
- Iowa Aging Issues Mediation Project
- Managed Care—Program Integrity
- Innovation Track: The Art of Engagement: Connecting Patients, Providers and Plans in the Mobile Era—Health ELT
- MIPPA: Improving Medicare Access and Affordability
- Care Coordination in Managed Long Term Services and Supports
Wednesday, September 17, 2014
8:30 a.m. – 9:30 a.m. Workshops
- ACL: Improving Program Performance
- ACL: Evidence-Based Support for High-Risk Caregivers in Your Community—Is Your Agency Ready
- CMS: Person-Centered Planning
- Core Competencies for the Direct Services Workforce: A Validated, Cross Sector Resource for Training and Workforce
- Development to Improve Home and Community Based Services
- Keeping the Nutrition Program Future Ready
- Growing Your Caregiving Coalition: What to Do After you've Planted the Seed
- ACA Transitions to Medicare and Medicaid: Preventing the Coverage Gap
- Educating Providers on Unique Vulnerabilities of Transgender, Gender Non-Conforming Clients, and LGBT Older Adults of Color
- Expanding the Aging Conversation: Is 60 the new 50 or the new 20?
- National Study of Long-Term Care Providers: 2012 National and State Results on Five Major Provider Types
- How to Create a Multi-disciplinary Response to Elder Abuse in Your Community
- Integrating Physical and Behavioral Health Services: The Next Generation
- A Drug Therapy Revolution: Saving Lives and $150B Annually
9:45 a.m. – 10:45 a.m. Workshops
- ACL: The No Wrong Door System: Setting the Stage for National Standards
- CMS: Quality Performance Measures
- Louisiana's Efforts to Ensure the Integrity of Home and Community Based Services: Using Data to Preserve Resources, Equip Auditors, and Educate Assessors
- Exploring the Future of Participant Direction: Benefits and Challenges from the Perspectives of Program Administrators
- Supported Decision-Making: An Important Tool in the Continuum of Guardianship and Alternatives
- Redesigning Assessment in Colorado: Lessons for Other States Trying to Comply with the New CMS HCBS Regulations and Supporting Systems Change
- A Giant Leap Forward or An Opportunity Lost? Assessing Long-Term Services and Supports in the Duals Demonstrations
- Analyzing Medicaid Claims to Learn About: Use of HCBS and Institutional LTC, Characteristics of Elderly Medicaid LTC Users Compared to Non-Medicaid LTC Users, and Financial Eligibility Pathways to Medicaid LTC Use Including Spend-down
- Managed Long-Term Services and Supports: Navigating the Landscape from Readiness Review to Ongoing Oversight
- Community Based Organizations (CBOs) Driving Health Plan Quality: Position and Role in the Evolving Health Care Environment
- Offering Hope and Innovative Supports to Veterans and their Families: Why a Participant Directed Services Approach Works
- Innovation Track: The Common Sense Interventions that will Reduce Costs and Improve Care for the Elderly—Pfizer
- State of the States in Aging and Disability
2:30 p.m. – 3:45 p.m. Workshops
- ACL: How does Health Insurance Purchased through the Marketplace Relate to Services at Home?
- ACL: Disaster Preparedness: A Multi-faceted Approach to Planning
- CMS: Home and Community Based (HCBS) Regulations Transition Plans
- Using the New CMS HCBS Settings Regulation for Community Integration Advocacy: An Advocacy Perspective on the Politics of Community Integration
- Enhancing Opportunities for Senior Employment: Training Latino/Hispanic Elders as Peer Community Interpreters—An Innovative Approach and Promising Practice
- Electronically Collecting Quality Measures using a Patient-Centered Health Record
- New Frontiers: Strategies for Designing and Implementing Individualized Budgeting Systems Using Functional Assessments
- Authentic Person-Centered Supports for Individuals with ID/DD and Extensive Support Needs
- Aging in Place Jeopardy
- Importance of Value Alliances: LTSS Provider Networks & Managed Care Organization Partnerships Responding to Integration Efforts in MMLTSS & Duals
- Communities for a Lifetime
- Utah ADRCs Building Community Partnerships with the VA-Providing Options Counseling to Rural Veterans
- National Core Indicators for Increasing Quality Measurement of State Systems to Serve People with Disabilities and Older Americans
- To Plan for Community Living, Learn Who is in your Nursing Homes: Insights from the Minimum Data Set (MDS) Using Questions About Preadmission Screening and Resident Review (PASRR)
4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. Workshops
- ACL: The No Wrong Door System: Supporting Youth in Transition
- CMS: The Home and Community-Based Taxonomy
- CMS: Housing and Services: Why Collaboration Matters
- Connecticut's Addiction Support Services
- ACOBIPPSIMLTSS? Gourmet Alphabet Soup Created by Many Cooks
- What can Assessment and Service Data Tell Us? Utilizing MDS-HC Data to Support Policy and Programmatic
Decision-Making - The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: Protecting and Empowering Older Consumers
- HomeMeds: Key to the door for CBOs contracting with healthcare
- Innovative Public-Private Partnerships: Empowering Individuals Through Chronic Disease Self-Management Education (CDSME)
- Current Learning from the National Community of Practice on Supporting Families and Individuals with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Throughout the Life Course
- Consumer Issues and Advocacy Challenges in Assisted Living
- Innovation Track: Supporting Better Outcomes: The Role of the Family Caregiver and Aging Network in the Chronic Care Model—Well Med
- The Power of Disability Literacy
- Bridging the Gap: Linking Health Care and Long-Term Services and Supports (LTSS) for Massachusetts' Elders
Thursday, September 18, 2014
8:30 a.m. – 9:45 a.m. Workshops
- ACL: The ACL/CMS Partnership to Provide the States with Person-Centered Counseling Training, Credentialing and Technical Assistance Program
- ACL: The Consumer Experience and the HCBS Settings Rule
- Responding Holistically to Neurobehavioral Challenges in Persons with Brain Injury
- Minnesota Designs New Elderly Waiver Service to Help Seniors Remain at Home
- Innovative Ombudsman Programs: Shared Perspectives from New Jersey and Delaware on Meeting the Needs of Today's Senior Population
- Establishing Matching Services Registries to Help Consumers Find Caregivers
- Promoting Research Participation as a Part of Healthy Aging
- HCBS Policy Lab: Legislative and Analytical Updates
- The Use of Clinical and Functional Assessment Instruments
- Housing and Services: Making Meaningful Investments
- Using Telecare/Telehealth Technology to Support Aging in Place
10:00 a.m. – 11:15 a.m. Workshops
- HHS: Promoting Successful Community Living through Increased Competitive and Integrated Employment for Individuals with Disabilities Program
- CMS: The 1915(i) and 1915(c) Home and Community-Based Services (HCBS) Regulations
- Service Agencies Unite to Form a Model Community Care Network
- Taking It to the Next Level: Training Programs for Advanced Home Care Aides in Washington State
- Heroes on the Homefront: Meeting the Needs of America's Military and Veteran Caregivers
- Innovations in Protection from Harm for Adults with Mental Illness and Intellectual Disabilities Receiving 24 Hours Residential Support
- Innovation Track: Patient Engagement and Accountability:The Innovative Texas Model—Girling/Gentiva
- Coordination, Education, and Integration: Enhanced Roles for Home Care Workers in Theory and Practice
- Technology, Innovation, and Aging: How New Technology Companies are Making a Big Impact for Elders and Care Providers; and Policy Revisions to Make it Happen
- Integrating Services for Dual Eligible Individuals: Efforts to Integrate and Coordinate Long-Term Services and Supports in the Massachusetts Duals Demonstration
- Ohio Medicaid HCBS Waiver Provider Education, Support, and Oversight
11:30 a.m. – 12:45 p.m. Workshops
- ACL: The Impact of New Department of Labor Rules on Fair Labor Standards (Companionship) on the Future of Consumer-Directed Home Care Programs
- CMS: Use of HCBS for Individuals with Mental Health Conditions
- National Medicaid HCBS Program Data and Policies: An Update
- Assistive Technology: State AT programs and Collaborations with State Medicaid Agencies
- Balancing Incentive Program: Perspectives from Multiple States on Their Work to Support the BIP Objectives and how BIP Initiatives Support Their Broader Program Objectives
- How Do New Federal Labor Rules Impact Self-Direction? Applying the Rules to Maryland and around the Country
- Making Evidence-Based Programs Easier and More Affordable for Everyone: The Evidence Based Leadership Council
- Support and Services at Home (SASH): Housing as a Platform for Health
- Options Counseling and Online Training for a Fast Paced World
- The Nutrition Rx: Home Delivered Meals Could Save Millions for Medicaid and HCBS Programs
- Negotiating Independence?: The Ethical Implications of Electronic Monitoring for Practice and Policy