Person Centered Planning: Improving Lives by Increasing Independence
Imagine what it would be like if every decision made about your life were made by someone else: when to get up in the morning, when to go to bed…
Imagine what it would be like if every decision made about your life were made by someone else: when to get up in the morning, when to go to bed…
An innovative program that uses music to help spark the memories and language of long-term care facility residents will soon expand to include 165 more nursing homes. Music & Memory,…
This brief describes Medicaid’s role for nearly 7 million nonelderly adults with disabilities living in the community to help inform the debate about the American Health Care Act’s proposals to…
Research suggests that a broad range of social factors affect individual and population health. Indeed, acknowledging the role of social factors in determining health, the U.S. Department of Health and…
The Money Follows the Person (MFP) rebalancing demonstration was designed to provide Medicaid beneficiaries in long-term nursing homes and other types of facilities with more choice about where they receive…
When Dan Bawden teaches contractors and builders about aging-in-place, he has them get into a wheelchair. See what it’s like to try to do things from this perspective, he tells…
About 1.4 million residents of nursing homes across the country now can be more involved in their care under the most wide-ranging revision of federal rules for such facilities in…
Medicaid is the nation’s major publicly-financed health insurance program, covering the acute and long-term services and supports (LTSS) needs of millions of low-income Americans of all ages. With limited coverage…
The mission to improve Grand Rapids, Mich.-based Spectrum Health's care transitions started with a dog. After his family dog Dutch, was hit by a car, Jay LaBine, MD, Associate CMO…
After record increases in fiscal year 2015, growth in Medicaid enrollment and total Medicaid spending nationally slowed substantially in FY 2016 and are projected to continue to slow in FY…