Research / Journal abstracts

In 2017, the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation launched the Accountable Health Communities (AHC) Model to test whether connecting Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries to community resources can improve health outcomes and reduce costs by addressing health-related social needs (HRSNs)—adverse social conditions that affect health and health care. This report describes the Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries who were eligible for the AHC Model in the Assistance Track.

This resource includes links to nine different articles on self-direction featured in the Special Issue of Journal of Gerontological Social Work.

The purpose of this study was to investigate the awareness, usage, perceived effectiveness and potential future use of improvement tools and techniques via two sets of comparisons: between public and private sector organisations, and between manufacturers and service organisations.

The Spring 2018 issue of Generations, the quarterly journal of the American Society on Aging, is divided into three main parts. These three sections are building community partnerships, building business practices, and examples of successful CBO use of business acumen. This issue also has a special focus on how the social determinants of health influence the experience of older adults in the community.

​This resource discusses the integrative nature of project management, and to emphasize the importance of integration, describes project management in terms of its component processes.

This article discusses how understanding and using a change theory framework can help managers or other change agents increase the likelihood of success. The article considers three change theories and discusses how one in particular can be used in practice.

This article describes a classification framework that features eight questions that could be asked of a change management tool/technique in order to inform understanding about its utilization.

This is an abstract topic page on Community Partnerships from AAHD's Health Promotion Resource Center.

The AAHD Health Promotion Resource Center for People with Disabilities is intended to provide visitors with current and valuable information about multiple aspects of health promotion and wellness for people with disabilities.

This report represents two years of work by the HCBS Committee and and contains the Committee's final set of recommendations. It describes key components of a conceptual foundation for home and community based services (HCBS) quality measurement, specifically an operational definition of HCBS, a list of characteristics describing high-quality HCBS, and a measurement framework of 11 domains and 40 subdomains.