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…
Music & Memory to Roll Out to More Nursing Homes
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,…
Medicaid Restructuring Under the American Health Care Act and Nonelderly Adults with Disabilities
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…
Linking Medicaid and Supportive Housing: Opportunities and On-the-Ground Examples
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…
Pathways To Independence: Transitioning Adults Under Age 65 From Nursing Homes To Community Living
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…
How to make a home much more friendly to seniors using wheelchairs or walkers?
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…
New Nursing Home Rules Offer Residents More Control Of Their Care
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 Long-term Services and Supports: A Primer
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…
Strategies to Improve Care Transitions
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…
50-State Survey Finds Slower Growth in Total Medicaid Spending Nationally in FY 2016
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…