Aging and Disability Resource Center

In what ways can the hospital discharge process divert institutional placements or trigger follow-up during the initial weeks following a nursing facility admission? This paper is intended to help states, ADRC pilot sites, or other community organizations to evaluate their options for establishing a hospital-based diversion program and, where appropriate, take steps toward implementing a successful program.

Created in 2006 and comprised of representatives from nine federal agencies, the taskforce was charged with developing multi-agency strategies to address the aging of the workforce. This report summarizes the Taskforce’s findings and recommendations including self-employment, flexible work arrangements and customized employment. Notably they suggest exploring the increasing the employment focus of Aging and Disability Resource Centers and enhancing collaboration with One-Stop Career Centers.

Find 10 surveys examples used to assess provider services at 1st Tennessee ADRC pilot site. Surveys contain questions to obtain consumer feedback on a variety of services, including transportation, legal services, meals, ombudsman, service coordination, personal care and homemaker services.

This survey asks local Advisory Council members to rate 10 statements about the Virginia No Wrong Door (NWD) Aging and Disability Resource Center (ADRC) project and their role in it. The statements include, “I understand the overall vision and goal of the NWD/ADRC initiative for the Commonwealth,” and “I understand the purpose of and my role on the (Richmond, Peninsula, Central Shenandoah Valley) Advisory Council.” A series of open-ended questions follow.

What questions should be asked when someone first contacts and ADRC? Ohio’s Aging and Disability Resource Network has provided this example of their Intake and Referral Form. Questions address contact information, income, employement, disability, insurance, benefits, and living arrangements. There is also space for referent information.

ConnectMeOhio.org (CMO) is Ohio’s statewide online access point for information pertaining to aging and disability services. This document describes its policy to define the kind of provider that can list their services on the website. Comprehensive lists of inclusion and exclusion guidelines are included.

This presentation describes Minnesota's approach to establishing and maintaining their statewide resource database, MinnesotaHelp.info. Also included are handouts on specific areas for maintaining the website, such as external data investigation, migration, and address matching.

An example of how ADRCs can stay connected, Washington uses a simple text-only format for their newsletter that is meant to bypass spam filters. The text also allows people to "rip-and-read" so they can easily take the information out to use in other settings. There are no attachments, as requested by the newsletter recipients. The newsletter is published monthly and features Local Happenings, National News, and Job Postings.

As part of the January 2008 Monthly ADRC TAE call, Dorie Seavey and Hollis Turnham presented the idea of worker registries. Supporting materials offer an overview of the concept and state examples. Also included is a two-page hand out that lists worker registry websites and offers and example of the database potential functionalities.

The Vermont ADRC publishes this bi-monthly newsletter to keep partners and staff connected to the activities of the grant within the two local pilot regions and nationally. They will use this newsletter to highlight key activities of the grant: progress in establishing partnerships across service networks, cross training, utilization of refer and other resource databases, the formative evaluation, and community events.