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2020 Final Call Letter Offers Guidance and Structure for Medicare Advantage Supplemental Benefits

- Lynne Giacobbe
Categories: Understand the Landscape

Recent policy changes indicate a growing recognition that factors called the social determinants of health (SDOH) can play a significant role in an individual’s health and well-being—a fact that community-based aging and disability organizations (CBOs) have long known. The SDOH include access to transportation, healthy food and accessible housing. Research shows that simple, low-cost services …

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Aging and Disability Business Institute and the National Council of Aging Select Participants in Medicare Advantage Learning Collaborative

- Aging and Disability Business Institute
Categories: Announcement

The Aging and Disability Business Institute at the National Association for Area Agencies on Aging (n4a) and the National Council on Aging (NCOA) are pleased to announce that they have selected 11 community-based organizations (CBOs) and networks to participate in a Medicare Advantage Learning Collaborative (MALC) from an applicant pool of more than 100 well-qualified …

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Building Age-Friendly Health Systems

- American Society on Aging
Categories: Define Your Value, Get Started

When Susan Shelton’s 99-year old father, Chet, was a patient at the Anne Arundel Medical Center (AAMC), he received care that was tailored specifically to his needs. This unique experience is all due to AAMC’s Age-Friendly Health Systems initiative. The initiative aims to significantly improve care and quality of life for older adults through personalized, …

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How Elder Services of the Merrimack Valley Replicates Its Cross-Sector Partnership Successes

- Collaborative Consulting
Categories: Success Stories

In this Success Story learn how Elder Services of the Merrimack Valley (ESMV) created innovative change through their mission focused culture of service by cultivating partnerships across health and social sectors. Their cross-sector partnership model not only reduced health care costs, but improved the health outcomes of the older adults and disability community they serve …

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How CICOA Aging & In-Home Solutions Uses Data to Activate Services Faster and Deliver Value in Health Care Partnerships

- Collaborative Consulting
Categories: Partnership Profile

In this Success Story learn how CICOA Aging & In-Home Solutions (CICOA), an Indiana-based Area Agency on Aging, improved health outcomes and incentivized health care partnerships through a data-centric approach. Read the Partnership Profile Success Story to learn more about how CICOA’s work creating happier, healthier community members and satisfied health care partners. Partnership Profile: CICOA …

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What Can a CBO Do to Enhance a Hospital’s Performance?

- Lori Peterson, Collaborative Consulting
Categories: Understand the Landscape

We all know that cross-sector partnerships are an effective strategy for addressing social determinants of health and improving the health and well-being of older adults and people with disabilities. They can also improve operational and financial performance for hospitals and health systems. These partnerships create new opportunities, but only if CBOs position themselves as offering …

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New Resource Helps Centers for Independent Living Prepare for Contracting with Health Care Entities

- Jennifer Morgan, Independent Living Research Utilization
Categories: Get Started, Understand the Landscape

Centers for Independent Living (CILs) and other community-based organizations (CBOs) have a prime opportunity to develop new contracts with health care providers and payers, including health plans, as these organizations seek to engage with CBOs for their expertise in improving services to and outcomes of clients. The roots that CILs have in consumer direction can …

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The Base Case: An HIT Funding Opportunity for Area Agencies on Aging

- Anne Montgomery, MS, is Deputy Director of Altarum’s Program to Improve Eldercare. Katy Weber, MPH, is a health and social services consultant specializing in population health for the aging population through the integration of medical and social services.
Categories: Get Started, Understand the Landscape

  Despite a surging population of adults age 60 and older in the United States and increasing pressure for more integrated health and social services systems, the Aging Network faces significant challenges in accessing the necessary information technology (IT) infrastructure to achieve this integration. In 2009, the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health …

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