ADvancing States

ADvancing States and NASDDDS are proud to announce the launch of the Enabling Technology Engagement Network, a collaborative initiative designed to transform Long-Term Services and Supports (LTSS) through cutting-edge technology and strategic partnerships. This network addresses the challenges of implementing impactful technological solutions across fragmented Medicaid and LTSS systems. As a member, you’ll gain access to premier events, opportunities to connect with key industry leaders and policymakers, a platform to shape policy, and collaboration with industry peers to exchange insights and foster innovation. Contact EnablingTech@advancingstates.org for more information.

To assist states designing and/or revising HCBS waivers, in this report ADvancing States analyzed how waiver language defines family caregivers and how those definitions relate to older adults without immediate family available as caregivers.

ADvancing States is pleased to publish findings from the Aging and Disability 2023 Information and Referral/Assistance (I&R/A) National Survey. This brief explores several dimensions of quality assurance and training, including I&R/A standards, quality assurance and improvement, outcome measures, staff training, and staff certification. The survey results demonstrate that agencies use a variety of means to ensure the quality of services provided. Quality assurance and training strengthen I&R/A service delivery and support effective services and outcomes.

This infographic contains information on caregivers including demographic data, caregiver responsibilities, pressures on caregivers, and discussion of the limited supports for caregivers.

This infographic provides information on coverage and costs for individuals with Medicaid and Medicare. The infographic describes people with both Medicaid and Medicare, complex health care needs of those dually eligible and spending, limited coordinated care between the programs, and ways to improve coordination.

This infographic provides information on the direct care workforce, including demographic data, challenges direct care workers face, and resources that states can use to learn more about and support their direct care workforce.

ADvancing States released today a new report on the current state of enabling technology in LTSS programs. The report offers recommendations for state action as well as identifies supports that our Federal partners can offer to states as they explore ways to help older adults and people with physical disabilities live as independently as possible. Finally the report highlight some best practices across the country in both Medicaid and aging programs.

ADvancing States and the ARPA HCBS TA Collective are pleased to announce the release of an issue brief examining states’ efforts to understand the impact of their home and community-based (HCBS) projects implemented with unprecedented new Federal investment under the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA). With such a massive investment in our nation’s largest HCBS delivery systems, it is critically important to distill learnings about which types of the states’ investments resulted in desired outcomes and which did not. Armed with such information, our state and national leaders will be better informed to establish policies when making future investments related to Medicaid HCBS.

ADvancing States is pleased to publish findings from the 2022 national survey of Adult Protective Services (APS) Programs in the report Adult Protective Services in 2022: Responding to Evolving Needs in a Changing Environment. ADvancing States conducted this survey to assess the current state of APS programs and identify trends related to topics such as caseload, staff retention, and client assessment. Additionally, there was a special focus placed on clients experiencing self-neglect. Since the prior ADvancing States APS report was published, Adult Protective Services in 2012: Increasingly Vulnerable, the field of APS has experienced a variety of new opportunities and challenges...

The 2023 Sarah Taub Memorial Webinar shared highlights from the 2021-2022 National Core Indicators - Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (NCI-IDD) and National Core Indicators - Aging and Disabilities (NCI-AD) surveys. The webinar showcased promising outcomes and areas for improvement across domains such as person-centered planning, community participation and employment, health and health care, staffing, and the HCBS Final Settings Rule.