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Preparing Community-Based Organization Leadership Teams to Tackle Health Information Technology (HIT) Challenges

- Aging and Disability Business Institute and American Society on Aging
Categories: Build Your Network, Define Your Value

From enhanced interactions with older adults and their caregivers to sharing data via health information exchanges, technology is changing how community-based organizations (CBOs) provide supports and services to their clients. The Aging and Disability Business Institute (Business Institute) aims to ensure that CBOs have tools and resources they can use to put today’s innovations to …

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Paving the Way Towards Sustainable Healthy Communities

- Marissa Whitehouse & Kathy Cameron, National Council on Aging, Washington, DC
Categories: Build Your Network, Evaluate Contracts, Get Started, Understand the Landscape

Last month, the National Council on Aging’s (NCOA) Center for Healthy Aging brought together state and local agencies, community-based organizations (CBOs) and others that are implementing chronic disease self-management education (CDSME), falls prevention programs, and other evidence-based health promotion/disease prevention programs for its annual meeting in Arlington, VA. The theme for this year’s event was …

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Ensuring Health Systems Become Age-Friendly

- Terry Fulmer, PhD, RN, FAAN, President, The John A. Hartford Foundation
Categories: Define Your Value, Understand the Landscape

  An exciting, long-overdue and much needed movement is underway to close current gaps and failures in health care for older adults so that it better meets our needs as we age. The Age-Friendly Health Systems initiative, conceptualized in 2015 and launched in 2017, has sparked innovation and improvement across the country and presents a …

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Serving Veterans through Collaboration A Veteran-Directed Home & Community-Based Services Program

- Jennifer Morgan & Richard Petty, Independent Living Research Utilization
Categories: Success Stories

This Aging and Disability Business Institute Success Story provides an overview of the structure and history of the partnership, discusses the nuts and bolts of the operations and the role of each partner, and describes lessons learned. The insights provided demonstrate how AAAs and CILs can partner to provide VD-HCBS. Read the Success Story to …

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Minnesota/South Dakota Veteran Directed Home and Community Based Services Program – A long standing partnership

- Jennifer Morgan & Richard Petty, Independent Living Research Utilization
Categories: Build Your Network, Understand the Landscape

  In this new era of value-based care, which places an increasing emphasis on person-centered service delivery and interdisciplinary care teams, community-based organizations (CBOs) in the Aging and Disability Networks can come together to leverage strengths and serve as strong partners to health care entities’ integrated care programs. An example of this kind of synergy …

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Building Partnerships with Primary Care to Become a Hub for Service Delivery for Older Adults in Our Community

- Dana Schrage Transitional Care Supervisor, Aging Care Connections
Categories: Understand the Landscape

This blog entry describes a care model that community-based organizations (CBOs) working as part of the Aging Network can implement when partnering with local primary care providers.   The last decade has seen health systems move toward payment reforms that incentivize outcomes. There has also been a substantial growth in Medicaid managed care across the …

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Virginia AAA Enables Veterans to Thrive Independently within Own Homes

- Melissa Blake , Director , Veterans-Directed Home and Community, Bay Aging
Categories: Build Your Network

Independence…it’s something we have all been striving for since childhood.  “I can do it by myself.”  “I don’t need any help.”  We may have spoken these words as children or listened as these words were spoken by our aging parents.  As our circumstances change and we become less independent, that desire for independence remains with …

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Aging and Disability Business Institute Launches New Request for Information Survey on CBO-Health Care Partnerships

- Aging and Disability Business Institute
Categories: Uncategorized

With your help, we learned in our 2017 Request for Information Survey that aging and disability community-based organizations (CBOs) * across the country are partnering with health care payers and providers to address social and behavioral determinants of health. With our partners at Scripps Gerontology Center, we reported our findings in a brief report and …

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Nominations for The John A. Hartford Foundation 2018 Business Innovation Award Open until June 11!

- Aging and Disability Business Institute
Categories: Uncategorized

There is growing evidence showing that the majority of health care costs are driven by factors outside of the clinical environment, including the social determinants of health—such as food security, housing instability and quality, and utility and transportation access. Additional evidence shows that functional limitations are associated with higher Medicare costs. Together, these factors have created new incentives …

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Medicare Advantage Policy Spotlight

- Aging and Disability Business Institute
Categories: Understand the Landscape

Two new policy actions open the door for partnerships between Medicare Advantage (MA) plans and community-based organizations (CBOs). These changes, which expand the flexibility of MA plans to target supplementary benefits to beneficiaries, are detailed in the Business Institute’s new Policy Spotlight. The Policy Spotlight summarizes the new opportunities for CBOs made possible by the …

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