Long-Term Care

This AARP report describes elements of successful Information and Assistance (I & A) Programs for older adults and their families and provides case studies of Indiana, Wisconsin, and New Jersey I & A programs.

This entry describes the process of the development of Just1Call, a centralized information and assessment resource center in Mecklenburg County (Charlotte), NC, from planning to implementation. The posting includes a manual, report, case study, protocal and link to their website.

The Lewin Group under contract with Wisconsin's Legislative Audit Bureau examined the implementation, early outcomes, and cost effectiveness of the restructuring of Wisconsin’s long-term care system for the elderly, the physically disabled, and the developmentally disabled. The report offers key-findings based on over the past few years evaluation.

This is an overview of selected screening and referral tools used by aging and other human service agencies. It contains descriptions of informational elements, format, targeted populations and staff training.

Two presentations from the South Carolina Planning Retreat in January 2004 can be found here. A presentation by Susan Reinhard, of the Community Living Exchange Collaborative, focuses on ADRC purpose, goals, and system issues. A presentation by Karen Linkins and Sharon Zeruld, TAE, focuses on national vision and expectations for ADRCs.

These are the notes from the TAE Monthly Grantee Teleconference on Pennsylvania's Streamlined Eligibility that was held on April 1, 2004. The call focused on the state's reform of long term care, specifically the Community Choice Program.

This report was produced by the Pennsylvania Council on Long Term Care outlining procedural, informational and systemic barriers to home and community-based services.

This conference was designed to assess state initiatives to improve quality, cost, and access and to help policy makers—from both the executive and legislative branches—identify the most promising and cost effective of these programs and policies. Sessions of interest for grantees include: Quality Challenges in LTC, Self-Direction Sweeping States, Information to Live by...Building Integrated Health Data Systems, Beyond HCBS Waivers, Money Follows the Person, Medicare Modernization Act

This letter clarifies the policy of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), formerly the Health Care Financing Administration, as it relates to the enrollment of Medicare eligible beneficiaries in Medicaid managed care.

This report was prepared for the Iowa legislature and recommends that the state increase Medicare and Medicaid payments in order to increase pay. It also recommends raising public awareness of worker shortages and their impact, creating mentoring programs to prevent turnover/increase retention, and other strategies to strengthen the health and long-term care workforce.