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Aging and Disability Business Institute Now Accepting Applications for 2020 Medicare Advantage Learning Collaborative

- Aging and Disability Business Institute
Categories: Build Your Network

The Aging and Disability Business Institute at the National Association of Area Agencies on Aging (n4a) and the National Council on Aging are excited to announce a call for applications for aging and disability community-based organizations and networks to participate in a learning collaborative focused on building the knowledge and skills needed to successfully pursue …

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Building a Foundation for Health Care and Community-Based Organizations Partnerships

- Meals on Wheels America
Categories: Build Your Network, Get Started, Understand the Landscape

In recent years, the impact of the social determinants of health on an individual’s health and well-being has moved to the forefront of attention for many in the health care sector. The Social determinants of health include the social, economic and environmental factors that take place outside of typical health care settings and include access …

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Tools to Accelerate Cross-Sector Partnership Development

- Rory Daly, Communications Assistant, n4a
Categories: Build Your Network, Define Your Value, Get Started

Cross-sector partnerships can be a powerful way to improve health care for older adults and people living with disabilities—and they demonstrate the extraordinary potential that can result for both health care systems and hospitals. Yet, without the right tools and information, these partnerships can be difficult to build and sustain. As a part of the …

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Aging and Disability Business Institute Selects Participants for Health Information Technology Learning Collaborative

- Aging and Disability Business Institute
Categories: Build Your Network, Understand the Landscape

We are excited to announce that we have selected ten community-based organizations and networks that will take part in a Health Information Technology Learning Collaborative (HITLC). The need for community-based organizations (CBOs) to be well-versed in technology is growing, particularly as more and more of them diversify their funding sources by developing innovative partnerships with …

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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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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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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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NCOA’s Roadmap to Community Integrated Health Care

- Marissa Whitehouse, National Council on Aging
Categories: Build Your Network, Get Started, Understand the Landscape

The National Council on Aging’s (NCOA) Center for Healthy Aging is honored to serve as a partner with n4a’s Aging & Disability Business Institute (Business Institute) and contribute the important work of assisting community-based organizations (CBOs) to successfully adapt to a changing health care environment, enhance their organizational capacity, and capitalize on emerging opportunities to diversify funding. …

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Oklahoma Collaborators Point to Strategic Positioning

- Richard Petty, Director, National Center for Aging and Disability at TIRR & Co-Director, ILRU - Independent Living Research Utilization
Categories: Build Your Network, Understand the Landscape

    Synergies and collaborations between disability and aging services providers are a natural fit in an integrated health care landscape. Both fields are committed to providing support that keeps people safe and comfortable in their homes and communities for as long as possible. Both are facing an increasingly constrained funding environment that has forced …

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