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Addressing Social Isolation Through Engagement
Advancing Our Advocacy
Best Practices in Healthy Aging
Building Livable and Dementia-Friendly Communities
Cutting-Edge OAA and Aging Programs
Elder Justice
Enhancing Independent Living Through Transportation Innovations
Health Care Contracting and Integrated Care
Meeting the Needs of Diverse Aging Populations
Running Your Agency: Strategies to Strengthen Systems and People
Supporting Caregivers
Title VI Programs: Unique Challenges and Solutions
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All times are in Central Daylight Time (the local time in Austin, Texas)
Saturday, July 9
8:30 AM - 12:00 PM |
USAging Board of Directors Meeting
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Sunday, July 10
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Monday, July 11
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Tuesday, July 12
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Wednesday, July 13
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USAging New Board of Directors Meeting
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PC01) Boot Camp for New DirectorsFocus Area: Running Your Agency: Strategies to Strengthen Systems and People New to the field or newly promoted? This must-attend boot camp session will give you access to veteran and newer AAA directors knowledge and advice! Hear about which issues you cant afford to ignore, how to approach key relationships, where the Aging Network is headed and more. Several rookie directors will also share what they learned in the first year or two on the job. Bring your burning questions and be ready to find other new or wannabe directors to network with. Note: This session complements the more in-depth USAging Boot Camp for New Directors webinar series.
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PC02) Improving Housing Stability Through Health Care ContractsFocus Area: Health Care Contracting and Integrated Care Housing instability is associated with poor health, increased risk for falls, and avoidable emergency department visits and hospitalizations. Keys to improving a persons ability to continue to live in their homealso known as housing stabilityinclude affordable, accessible, and safe housing with ready access to home and community-based services. AAAs can use their OAA funding to support housing stability, but health care contracting can enable them to serve a fuller range of individuals needs and/or expand the number of older adults and caregivers they serve. Learn how health care contracts can support critical housing stability functions. Hear from federal presenters on some opportunities available through the American Rescue Plan Act and learn about promising AAA partnerships with housing and health care providers.
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PC03) New Vision for Volunteer Transportation in a Post-Pandemic WorldFocus Area: Enhancing Independent Living Through Transportation Innovations Volunteer transportation remains a primary approach that offers personalized, mobility on demand designed to meet the needs of both older adults and younger people with disabilities. During the COVID-19 pandemic, some programs were forced to suspend operations while others cut back on services. However, volunteer drivers also took on new roles such as delivering food and other essentials to isolated older adults. This session will bring together successful practitioners in volunteer transportation who will discuss volunteer program management, recruitment and recognition methods, volunteer transportation funding, and ways to ensure that volunteer transportation programs reflect the communitys diversity, along with practical methods for implementing these ideas.
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PC04) The Why and How of Collecting Diversity Data Through I&RFocus Area: Meeting the Needs of Diverse Aging Populations Collecting data on the diverse range of older adults, people with disabilities and caregivers reaching out to your organization can help inform your organization's effectiveness, methods of outreach, and equitable distribution of funds to the communities that need them most... but it can be tricky! Learn from organizations that have prioritized collecting data on historically marginalized populations to better understand who is and isn't contacting them; then use that data to improve their reach and service delivery. Share your experience and hear from your Aging Network Peers about their experiences and lessons learned from collecting and using diversity data toward improving services and supports.
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Aging Innovations and Achievement Awards Luncheon (by invitation only)
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W01) Virtual "Dementia Conversations" Co-Hosted by People LIVING WELL with DementiaFocus Area: Addressing Social Isolation Through Engagement A diagnosis of dementia is so stigmatized and misunderstood that people living with dementia and their families often withdraw from their social lives, exacerbating isolation, diminishing well-being and accelerating decline. In March 2020, two people living with dementia and two-family care partnersall of whom are members of Dementia Friendly Nevadaknew the COVID-19 pandemic would result in additional loneliness and suffering for people who already felt marginalized. Together they envisioned and launched a simple, yet profoundly impactful solution, Dementia Conversations, a twice-weekly online gathering co-hosted by a person living with dementia and a family care partner focused on ideas for LIVING WELL. This session shares the story of this innovative program's success and provides resources for replication.
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W02) Avenues for Action in Housing: A Get-Started GuideFocus Area: Building Livable and Dementia-Friendly Communities Helping older adults find or remain in housing that is affordable and accessible has become very difficult. Inflated rents, evictions, waiting lists and gentrification are top threats to housing stability for older renters. Many homeowners struggle with the rising cost of utilities, delayed repairs/modifications and unaffordable mortgages. AAAs can extend the ways they address housing, a fundamental need, in their communities by establishing partnerships with the housing sector. Partnerships can take many forms, but the first step is the same: gaining a basic understanding of the housing sector. Who are the key players? What are the major populations and programs they have? What are some common goals to pursue together? Presentations will be interspersed with exchanges drawing on participants ideas and experiences. All will leave with pragmatic actions.
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W03) Misconceptions Debunked: The Truth About Behavioral Health ServicesFocus Area: Cutting-Edge OAA and Aging Programs Despite making great strides in the field of behavioral health, many misconceptions remain. It is time to debunk these common misconceptions so that individuals feel safe and comfortable taking the first step to address their emotional well-being. With suicide rates continuing to rise among older adults, it is essential to identify and address behavioral health issues. Explore compassionate and effective communication techniques to use when making referrals to behavioral health services. Examine various person-centered therapeutic approaches to help educate individuals about what they can expect when engaging in behavioral health services. Let's work together to make behavioral health care a standard aspect of overall health.
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W04) The PCOA Way: Integrating Lean Management into Your AAAFocus Area: Running Your Agency: Strategies to Strengthen Systems and People In 2019, PCOA began integrating lean management principles and tools into its business practices. Key leadership began working in partnership with the Arizona Department of Economic Security, Arizona's State Unit on Aging. Through trial and errorand a little coachingPCOA implemented new concepts, tools and shared activities into the agency culture. Lean management has helped to develop metrics for services, build stronger teams, engage in collaborative problem-solving, and map out programs to uncover their strengths and weaknesses and improve the way we serve the community. Come learn about lean management and how it may add value to your organization.
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W05) The Growing Opportunity to Partner with Medicare Advantage PlansFocus Area: Health Care Contracting and Integrated Care New authorities introduced in Medicare Advantage (MA) allow plans to offer non-medical supplemental benefits, including services never before paid for in Medicare. These benefits, including services like In-home care and extended meals, have risen in popularity, especially at a time when older adults wish to receive care in the home amidst the pandemic. Plans seek innovative, collaborative partners to offer these services. Although AAAs and CBOs face unique challenges contracting with plans, these organizations extend high value to MA plans, who express interest in collaborating with community organizations. This session will highlight trends in benefits, growth, and opportunities for AAAs to partner with MA plans, and features the Western New York Integrated Care Collaborative, a network of AAAs and community-based organizations that has successfully executed several MA contracts.
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W06) COVID-19 Vaccination Programs: AAAs Meeting the NeedFocus Area: Best Practices in Healthy Aging Older adults and individuals with disabilities are at an increased risk of hospitalization or death if diagnosed with COVID-19. While vaccinations are the most effective strategy to combat this increased risk, older adults and individuals with disabilities, many with mild to severe mobility impairments, face many obstacles to getting vaccinated. This session highlights two AAAs, Region VII Area Agency on Aging in Michigan and the Baltimore City Health Department Division on Aging in Maryland, both of which developed vaccination programs to reach vulnerable older adults, including those who are homebound. The AAAs will discuss how they planned and developed their programs, along with the outcomes they achieved.
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W07) AAAs and Transportation: Spotlighting Opportunities Under Section 5310Focus Area: Enhancing Independent Living Through Transportation Innovations Ninety percent of AAAs provide transportation services, a critical link to connect older adults and people with disabilities to essential activities, such as medical appointments, grocery stores and social activities. For AAAs, funding is essential to provide transportation services. According to the National Aging and Disability Transportation Centers National Survey of Transportation Providers, AAAs reported using 11 different funding sources to support transportation, including the Federal Transit Administrations (FTA) Section 5310 Enhanced Mobility for Seniors and Individuals with Disabilities Program. FTA expanded new opportunities under Section 5310 to support the impact COVID-19 has had on transportation programs. This session will feature staff from an Area Agency on Aging who will share how they are expanding transportation options for older adults and people with disabilities with new funding opportunities available under Section 5310.
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W08) A Unique Training Strategy and Partnership Using Project ECHOFocus Area: Meeting the Needs of Diverse Aging Populations This session will describe the successful use of a Project ECHO training model to train professional staff who work in the field of aging, including AAAs and their provider networks. The Project ECHO tele-mentoring and training mechanism was developed by Dr. Sanjeev Arora to equip primary care practitioners in rural areas with the knowledge they need to provide high-quality specialty care throughout New Mexico. It is now a nationallyand globallyrecognized model. The University of Louisville Trager Institute provides the Project ECHO-Care of the Older Adult series, utilizing an interdisciplinary hub model, partnering with Kentucky's AAAs and the Kentucky Coalition for Healthy Communities for the purpose of bringing best-practice care models and knowledge to the Aging Network, older adults, caregivers and community members throughout Kentucky.
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W09) Harnessing the Power of Data for Program SuccessFocus Area: Cutting-Edge OAA and Aging Programs A strong evaluation is a tool to sustaining program activities. During this session panelists will discuss the importance of including measurable outcomes in program planning and what to do with evaluation data once it becomes available.
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W10) Creating Communities of Support in Rural ArizonaFocus Area: Supporting Caregivers Join SEAGO Area Agency on Aging and learn how thinking outside of the box to deliver family caregiver education helped address social isolation among older adults and overcome technology barriers. COVID-19 brought about a rapid pivot to online caregiver education and SEAGO Area Agency on Aging staff sought ways to support their clients. With limited senior services available in rural Arizona, a partnership with Trualta, an on-demand, personalized, skill-based e-learning portal for caregiver training, was their solution. Join SEAGO AAA's staff as they share their journey and best practices for caregiver engagement that brought them to be the Arizona state pilot of the innovative Trualta Caregiver program.
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W11) Moving to Homes in the Community: What Does It Take?Focus Area: Building Livable and Dementia-Friendly Communities More older adults and their caregivers are interested in avoiding or minimizing stays in nursing homes. Others want to leave nursing homes and move back to the community. What systems do AAAs need to support these transitions? North Carolina AAAs have obtained Medicaid contracts for the Money Follows the Person (MFP) Program and partnered with HUD-assisted housing to prioritize voucher placements for persons enrolled in MFP. Programs that transition older adults to the community succeed when they help secure the housing and provide case management to ensure that MFP and other supports that the person chooses are in place for a smooth transition. This fast-track will feature one AAAs model, related outcomes and recommendations for other AAAs that want to expand support in this area.
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W12) Bringing Equity to Life in Your Planning and Service AreaFocus Area: Meeting the Needs of Diverse Aging Populations The Supporting Older Americans Act of 2020 included new equity recommendations. We invite you to join us as we share practical tools for incorporating these expectations into your Area Plan. This session will help you incorporate objectives and measures into your plans that focus on the needs of diverse older adults and/or those of greatest social need. Attendees will receive the Planning for Equity Checklist as well as strengths-based guidance on how to tailor your agency's strategic plan to meet local needs. The session will also review data sources and tools that you can use to inform the development of strategic plans and bring your plans to life within your communities.
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W13) 117,000 Dementia Friends and Counting! Become a Dementia Friend Today!Focus Area: Building Livable and Dementia-Friendly Communities Attend this workshop to learn more about Dementia Friends USA, a global movement that is changing the way people think, actand talk about dementia. The vision of Dementia Friends is that by helping everyone in a community understand what dementia is and how it affects people, each of us can make a difference for people touched by dementia. Interested in bringing Dementia Friends to your state? Presenters will share which states are currently Dementia Friends administrators and how a state can acquire a sublicense to deliver Dementia Friends sessions. Finally, if you aren't already a Dementia Friend, you will be after this session! A Dementia Friends Champion will provide the information you need to become a friend to those living with dementia and their care partners.
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W15) Engagement is More Than Just a Phone CallFocus Area: Running Your Agency: Strategies to Strengthen Systems and People Partners in Care Foundation once relied on office and care management staff to assist with outreach activities, with results matching the harried and inconsistent approach that reliance afforded. After investing in the software and human resources necessary to perform modern outreach and engagement, uptake of information and services dramatically improved. Partners experts Virginia Carone and Ester Sefilyan will discuss the development of an internal engagement center, outline pre and post-development differences, and share tips and techniques they have learned that any office can put in place or connect to vetted providers already doing this work, as well as what to look for in developing a dedicated internal engagement center. The concepts delivered in this workshop are based on experience that has led to multi-state contracts with payers handling engagement with members and patients alike.
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W16) Why PACE? An Opportunity for Area Agencies on AgingFocus Area: Health Care Contracting and Integrated Care During this session, you will hear from leaders at AIHS who developed the Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Learn about which ownership model worked best for the agency and how they were able to build a corporate structure that provides the best service while maintaining the integrity of the vision of the program. Walk through challenges faced when seeking a location for the center, what happened during the COVID-19 pandemic, and celebrations of the first participants that will continue for years to come. Think your agency may be a fit to sponsor the opening of a PACE Program in your area? By the end of this session, you will be able to determine your keys to success!
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W17) Communication Best Practices: Telling A More Complete Story About AgingFocus Area: Advancing Our Advocacy When we talk about aging, it can feel like yelling into a void. We say one thing, and the public hears something else. The Reframing Aging Initiative is led by the Leaders of Aging Organizations (USAging is a member) who recognize the need to communicate about aging in new ways. The new guide on communication best practices from the Reframing Aging Initiative will help AAA directors and other practitioners in the Aging Network reframe our messages to increase knowledge around aging, shift attitudes towards actions and solutions, and grow policy support for programs and funding. Attendees will learn how to apply the teachings from the Reframing Aging Initiatives style guide to their own communications, giving them the tools they need to tell a more complete story about aging.
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W18) Bringing Back the House Call with Primary Care at HomeFocus Area: Cutting-Edge OAA and Aging Programs Learn how to integrate medical care with home and community-based programs and leverage new billing opportunities to provide case management services. Outline of all components required to create and/or consider a new program and new line of business. Create better outcomes for patients/participants while reducing costly hospitalizations and emergency room visits through close patient monitoring and rapid medical response. Address provider shortages and health disparities utilizing non-physician providers in the home setting to create relationships and bring health care to the patient. Utilize community health workers, social workers and registered nurses along with pharmacists, nurse practitioners and medical directors to implement care plans with patients to stabilize their health and support aging in place.
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W19) Connecting Older Texans with New Resources Addressing Social IsolationFocus Area: Addressing Social Isolation Through Engagement Texas is unique in size and aging demographic. Texas Health and Human Services Commissions Aging Service Coordination office focuses on aging preparedness and healthy aging. The Aging Texas Well initiative and Age Well Live Well statewide campaign for healthy aging provide multiple ways to connect with free programs, resources, services, and initiatives, as well as the ability to collaborate and strengthen social wellness in local communities. This session highlights Texas HHS ASC resources, initiatives and activities developed to improve social connection, reduce social isolation/loneliness and encourage Texans to age well.
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W20) Resilience and the Aging Network: Impact of Remote Evidence-Based ProgramsFocus Area: Best Practices in Healthy Aging This session will discuss the Aging Networks pivot to evidence-based Falls Prevention and Chronic Disease Self-Management Programs. Presenters will cover the process by which organizations selected and delivered remote programs to reach older adults safely as well as their focus of diversity, inclusion and equity in implementation. Presenters will share the results of a nationwide survey showing the impact of remote implementation and lessons learned for AAAs interested in initiating and sustaining remote programs as a part of their healthy aging toolbox into the future.
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GS01) The More You Do, The More You Can Do: AAA Leadership, Resilience and Abundance
Sponsored by: ![]() AAAs have always been leaders and innovators, and the past two years have shown the world the depths and breadth of our resilience as well. Leadership often requires that we take risks that can make us feel vulnerable, but these risks can also attract the partners, resources and innovations that we need to overcome major challenges and to commit to new bold aims. We are better positioned than ever to continue to grow our capabilities and actions to meet the needs of the communities we serve in proven, diverse and more equitable ways. Come to our opening General Session to celebrate the strengths and abundance of our networkand to learn how we can increase our leadership and impact to chart and create the future of the Aging Network.
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GS02) Intersections in Aging and Public Health: Federal Leadership, Local Action
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HT01) HOT TOPIC: Healthy Aging: The Silent Value of Hearing and the AAA's Role in Hearing Health
Sponsored by: ![]() Hearing loss affects 48 million Americans. Yet only one in five people who would actually benefit from a hearing aid uses one. A key barrier to adoptionaside from cost and stigmais lack of awareness of the impact of hearing loss has on chronic health conditions. This presentation will review the latest evidence on the association of hearing loss with cardiovascular, neurologic (including dementia), and metabolic, health conditions and how innovative hearing loss technology supports healthy aging. Learn how your agency can help provide free hearing screening for clients and also receive information to share with your staff and clients.
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RT01) Rural RoundtableApproximately one in four people living in rural America is over the age of 65. Older adults living in rural areas have lower incomes, higher incidence of chronic conditions, less access to health care and fewer transportation options than their more urban counterparts. Yet they, and the agencies that serve them, are resilient and resourceful in addressing those needs. Although the challenges of aging in rural areas have been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, out of these challenges have come innovations in aging services and supportsdriven in large part by AAAs and Title VI programs. Come to this round table session to discuss and share your thoughts on the challenges and opportunities for innovation as well as changes needed to support the millions of older adults living in rural America. Your ideas will serve as a basis to help USAging develop its rural aging agenda. |
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W21) Communication and Care Coordination Resources for Caregiving FamiliesFocus Area: Supporting Caregivers In many caregiving families, one person takes on the majority of care and support responsibilities, without a discussion about what works best for everyone involved. Some families need help deciding who will do what, where, when, and how. Our Family, Our Way (OFOW) is a communication and care coordination resource designed to help caregiving families think and talk about care and support. OFOW provides free materials to guide families through the process of holding a family meeting, conducting a Shared Assessment of their arrangement, and creating a Family Care and Support Plan. In this session, attendees will learn about the OFOW process and materials, how to help caregiving families access and use the materials, and how OFOW can be incorporated into existing caregiver support programs.
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W22) Creating Inclusive Services for Native EldersFocus Area: Title VI Programs: Unique Challenges and Solutions The United States is a diverse country as the recent census has demonstrated. Learning and embracing this diversity can be made easier by seeing things through the eyes of everyone in our communities. Join us to explore the factors that combine to inform the worldview, health care, and other long-term services and support needs of American Indian and Alaska Native elders. Let's get the conversation started. We can't provide frybread, but we can show you how richly diverse Indian Country is and how rewarding it can be to take the time to listen and learn from our elders.
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W23) Fostering Social Connections Across CommunitiesFocus Area: Addressing Social Isolation Through Engagement Connecting with others is essential to health and well-being. Commit to Connect, developed by ACL, brings champions from the aging and disability networks together to collaborate and partner at the community level while connecting consumers to community resources to help them stay engaged. This session will highlight how Commit to Connect and engAGED: The National Resource Center for Engaging Older Adults, both administered by USAging with funding from ACL, are working together to inspire change at the community level and increase the social engagement of older adults, people with disabilities and caregivers. Learn tips, tools and how you and your agency can get involved!
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W25) Best Practices for Addressing Homelessness Among Older Adults: Integrated SolutionsFocus Area: Building Livable and Dementia-Friendly Communities Virginia was the first state to functionally end Veteran homelessness in 2015 and has now taken drastic steps to serve older adults experiencing homelessness. Bay Aging, a Virginia-based AAA and homeless services Local Planning Group Lead Agency, has bridged the gap between these two systems to create an integrated approach to serving this vulnerable population. Bay Aging has developed, and currently manages, eleven service-enriched rental housing communities using best practice models that promote quick access to housing. Extensive person-centered support services are available internally and through partnerships with local human services. This session will give participants the tools to understand the time-sensitive nature of homelessness, and to create short and long-term plans that will effectively address the needs of older adults experiencing homelessness.
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W26) Combating Calamity with a COOP: Your Guide to Emergency PlanningFocus Area: Running Your Agency: Strategies to Strengthen Systems and People How prepared were you and your team for the pandemic? How did you handle suddenly not going into the office and instead having to manage your team and all the pressure from afar? Join us for what is sure to be an engaging high-level overview that will reduce any fear of feeling of being daunted by the creation of your own Continuity of Operations Plan (COOP). Learn why preparing for emergencies also assists in succession planning and how it can make your team stronger and more resilient. You will leave with tools and real-life application to get your team started on its own COOP journey.
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W27) Integrated Care Boot Camp, Part I: Emerging Technology Considerations—SDOH Coding and Pathways to Billable ServicesFocus Area: Health Care Contracting and Integrated Care
Sponsored by: ![]() In this session, participants will learn about initiatives to develop standards for social determinants of health codes and secure message exchange. Panelists will discuss the impact of these opportunities on AAAs, the importance of working with your Health Information Exchange to align and prepare for data exchange, and pathways to billable social service codes with health care payers.
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W28) Live From DC: Federal Policy UpdatesFocus Area: Advancing Our Advocacy Austins honky-tonk vibe gets wonky as USAging brings all the flair of federal policy to you straight from DC! USAgings policy team will bring you up to speed on the latest federal aging, budget and health care policy activityand what it means for your work and the older adults and caregivers you serve. You will leave with a better understanding of how Washington works now, the latest developments and a forecast of what advocates should be prepared for! Suitable for newbies and advocacy veterans alike.
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W29) NADTC's 10th Annual Mobility Fair, Part IFocus Area: Enhancing Independent Living Through Transportation Innovations Join us for the 10th year of NADTC's Mobility Fair for an in-depth look at volunteer transportation programs as an important option for meeting the transportation needs of older adults and people with disabilities in communities across the country. Part One will be an offshoot of NADTCs Pre-Conference Intensive featuring brief presentations by two successful volunteer transportation programs. Interactive round table conversations will explore critical aspects of volunteer transportation programs.
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HT02) HOT TOPIC: Creating the Referral System of the Future
Sponsored by: ![]() Seamless, efficient referrals - between health care organizations and AAAs, and between AAAs and their CBO partners are critical to ensuring that older adults, people with disabilities and caregivers get the services they need when and where they need them. Technology can be an important tool in making that information exchange happen, and then closing the loop on the services provided as a result of those referrals. Working with stakeholders to design referral systems that work for individuals, service providers and payers alike requires involvement from all of these stakeholders parties to determine the information needed in the referral and the workflows and technology needed to get that information to the right place and at the right time. Attend this session to discuss what makes for effective referrals and referral systems, and how your AAA can make good decisions about the technology and systems you need to communicate with health care and community partners.
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RT02) Enhancing Your AAA's Cultural CompetencyWe all know diversity is important but what are AAAs doing to reflect the full diversity of their communities? Join us for a roundtable discussion on the strategies AAAs across the country are using to ensure they identify and meet the needs of the older adults they serve, whether it is through enhancing cultural competency, updating Information and Referral practices, or analyzing census data. |
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W30) Introducing Dementia Friends for American Indian and Alaska Native CommunitiesFocus Area: Title VI Programs: Unique Challenges and Solutions The Dementia Friends Information Session is a 60-minute introduction to dementia, covering differences between dementia and normal aging, activities to better understand the experiences of people living with dementia, and effective communication strategies within the context of dementia. Despite being available nation and worldwide, the content hasntuntil nowbeen customized for American Indian and Alaska Native communities. This session will detail the collaborative process employed by the International Association for Indigenous Aging and the Dementia Engagement, Education, and Research Program at the University of Nevada, Reno to tailor Dementia Friends specifically for indigenous people. Participants in the session will learn how they can become Dementia Friends Champions through a train the trainer approach and bring the program to communities in their area.
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W31) Research and Resources for Supporting Grandfamilies and Kinship FamiliesFocus Area: Supporting Caregivers More than 2.6 million children are raised by grandparents, other relatives or family friends (kinship caregivers) in the United States. Thirty percent of children in grandfamilies live in poverty, compared to 18 percent of children nationally. Grandfamilies and kinship families experience various challenges including lack of information about services they are eligible for, and many lack a formal legal relationship which can limit access to services that can help address the physical and mental health needs of both the caregiver and the child. AAAs and Title VI Native American Aging Programs can support these caregivers through Older Americans Act funds. This session will explore results from a new poll conducted by USAging, highlight innovative programmatic examples and share resources and supports from the National Technical Assistance Center on Grandfamilies and Kinship Families.
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W32) I Belong—So Can UFocus Area: Running Your Agency: Strategies to Strengthen Systems and People Diversity is inviting people to the table. Inclusion is giving them a chair to sit in. Equity is making sure that each person at the table has opportunity to speak. Belonging is when the people at the table feel comfortable to engage, participate and speak freely. ElderSource has worked intentionally and authentically to build a culture of diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging at all levels of the organization, internally and externally and will share with participants the efforts made, the tools used and how to achieve this in other organizations.
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W33) Passport to Health: Incentivizing Lifestyle Change in Community Wellness CentersFocus Area: Best Practices in Healthy Aging This Passport to Health workshop will introduce attendees to innovative strategies that can be used in wellness programs to drive participants to evidence-based programs to improve their health . Attendees will be introduced to how participants, nursing students, and partners benefitted from the program; how the Detroit Area Agency on Aging improved the success of its health and wellness programs; unique elements implemented and adapted during the COVID-19 pandemic; as well as how the program was positioned for third-party reimbursement. This interactive workshop will engage attendees in discussions around using incentives via an rewards point system to transform participants desiring tangible, extrinsic rewards to individuals incorporating intrinsic lifestyle behavior changes into their daily lives. Techniques used to evaluate program outcomes will be shared through toolkits that support replication.
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W34) Tele-PROTECT: Connecting Crime and Abuse Victims to Mental Health ServicesFocus Area: Elder Justice Older adults who are victims of crime and abuse may also suffer from co-morbid and untreated mental health conditions. These mental health needs often prevent them from seeking help and acting on safety strategies. PROTECT, an innovative 8-session, evidence-based mental health intervention, was designed to reduce symptoms of depression among victims of elder abuse and elder crime. PROTECT combines problem solving therapy, anxiety management, and psycho-education to help improve both mental health and elder abuse outcomes. Receiving funding through the Department of Justice, the NYC Department for the Aging and Weill Cornell have been able to offer a virtual or telephonic version of the PROTECT model.
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W35) Insights on Innovation: AAA Contracting StrategiesFocus Area: Health Care Contracting and Integrated Care Contracting with health care entities can improve the integration and coordination of medical and social support services to improve the quality of life for older adults and people with disabilities. This session will share new data from the Aging and Disability Business Institutes survey on CBO-health care contracting on the types of health care entities with which CBOs contract, the services they provide through these contracts, participation in networks, and challenges experienced and discuss trends in contracting. It will also do a deep dive on AAA contracts with health care, exploring how organizational, state, and local factors influence AAAs ability to contract with health care partners. Finally, it will describe the results of a study on how AAAs establish and maintain partnerships in health care and other sectors.
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W36) Developing a Statewide Community Integrated Health Network: Navigating the JourneyFocus Area: Health Care Contracting and Integrated Care Community-based organizations and health care entities are embarking on a two-year voyage of strategic planning for statewide Community Integrated Health Networks (CIHN) in Maryland and Virginia. The Maryland Living Well Center of Excellence (LWCE) and Bay Aging dba VAAACares® in Virginia were recently identified as two of 12 national Network Lead Entities (NLE) funded by ACL to assist with coordination of information, referral, screening, care coordination and enrollment in community-based programs by older adults and people with disabilities. These NLEs are charged with developing plans for integrating health and social services with an array of providers, utilizing interoperable software, and one-stop contracting for multiple services with different payers. This session will highlight stakeholders involved, collaborative decision-making processes, challenges and opportunities, as well as progress to date. Topics will also include various avenues for funding support, such as direct billing, shared savings and contracting. Presenters will describe successful efforts to demonstrate the return on investment/cost savings of non-clinical services in maintaining/improving the health and quality of life of older adults and people with disabilities.
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W37) An Elder Rights Approach to Aging & Protective Services WorkFocus Area: Elder Justice Aging services and elder rights professionals are on the front lines, providing the services and advocacy needed for older adults to remain healthy, independentand engaged in their communitiesfree from the threat of abuse, neglectand exploitation. Aging services professionals encounter challenging situations daily and have to quickly respond with approaches that balance autonomy and protection. In this session, presenters will walk participants through several case studies and develop solutions that best address the issues while preserving the rights of the individual. Presenters will also share promising practices focused on cultural humility and trauma-informed advocacy that can be incorporated into everyday work.
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W38) NADTC's 10th Annual Mobility Fair, Part IIFocus Area: Enhancing Independent Living Through Transportation Innovations Join us for the 10th year of the National Aging and Disability Transportation Centers (NADTC) Mobility Fair. This session will have a heavy emphasis on group discussion and will explore a variety of topics including transportation equity and inclusion, how to market transportation services, transporting people to employment, funding and more. Adopting the World Café format, participants will rotate between tables, listen to table hosts frame the issue, and then engage in conversation as a small group. Each roundtable session will highlight the different ways transportation is making a difference in communities around the country and will generate valuable ideas to improve community transportation services that meet the needs of older adults and people with disabilities.
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W39) Integrated Care Boot Camp, Part II: Health Plan Insights: Coding, Social Care Referrals and Integrated CareFocus Area: Health Care Contracting and Integrated Care
Sponsored by: ![]() Come to this session to learn from managed care leaders and their perspectives on social determinants of health coding and technology-based tools for managing social care referrals and data, and information exchange as we look to the future of health and social care integration.
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W40) Meet and Greets: AAAs, State and Tribal Governments Building RelationshipsFocus Area: Title VI Programs: Unique Challenges and Solutions The State of Oregons Office of Aging and People with Disabilities and Office of Tribal Affairs have developed durable relationships with Oregons Tribal Nations to better serve tribal elders. In close partnership with the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs the collective created a two-day event focused on building relationships and bringing Older Americans Act Services to tribal communities. Additionally, a Tribal Navigators Program was put in place to provide tribal elders thorough support in connecting to services. Hear how Oregons approach to serving tribal elders is helping the well-being of tribal nations.
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RT03) The Crisis in Housing and Homelessness and the Aging Network's ResponseJoin us for an interactive and engaging roundtable discussion focused on housing and homelessness. The nations housing crisis continues to escalate, and AAAs and Title VI programs are on the frontlines, sometimes working daily miracles to help older adults stay housed. The rise in homelessness among older adults is stimulating new prevention and intervention efforts. Many of your agencies are forging new ground by expanding housing partnerships, creating new programs, and advocating for local policy changes. Come engage with peers to unpack the challenges and get ideas of what has been working in other areas of the country, and share with USAging how we can support your housing work. |
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CW01) Health Equity and Nutrition Innovations in the Aging Network
Sponsored by: ![]() The Older Americans Act seeks to address issues of health equity by mandating that preference be given to providing services to older individuals with the greatest economic or social need, individuals at risk of institutional placement with attention to individuals who have low incomes, those who come from historically marginalized backgrounds, older adults who have limited English proficiency and older adults living in rural areas. Join us to discuss how state aging departments and AAAs from around the country are using innovative methods to prioritize these individuals for outreach and service delivery. The panel will discuss shifting roles and responsibilities relating to equity and inclusion, innovative and more efficient ways of using multiple funding sources, including OAA and Medicaid to reach diverse and high-risk populations, and strategic partnering to meet the needs of these populations while ensuring person centered care.
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FT01) Social Engagement of Early Dementia Diagnosis Through Shared StoriesFocus Area: Addressing Social Isolation Through Engagement Join this session to learn how to apply the elements of Self-Determination Theory: Autonomy, Competence and Relatedness to engaging individuals who have received an early dementia diagnosis through the application of Guided Autobiography, a 10-week program, in which individuals meet to learn about life development themes and write brief stories as applied to their lives. Individuals share stories and connect through these shared experiences. This program was adapted for use with individuals who were given a diagnosis of dementia and screened for participation in the program. Participants and care partners attend weekly classes at a medical center. This session will provide an overview of the program, criteria for admission and how the elements of Self-Determination Theory are critical. Sample stories will be shared as well.
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FT02) Adult Protective Services Program ImplementationFocus Area: Cutting-Edge OAA and Aging Programs For the first time ever, Congress appropriated funding for formula grants to state and territorial APS agencies. This session will provide insight into early trends and themes emerging from implementation of plans that effectively use these funds.
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FT03) Strategies to Prevent Homelessness: Interventions for Adult Protective Services ClientsFocus Area: Elder Justice Skyrocketing housing costs and a shortage of options are financially overburdening older adults. In response to this crisis, the County of San Diegos Aging & Independence Services developed a formal partnership with a local organization to provide a broad continuum of programs to support clients who are at imminent risk of homelessness. While APS works with clients to mitigate the effects of abuse, housing navigation also occurs in which clients receive critical housing interventions that can prevent homelessness. In addition, we have established that short-term financial assistance can provide economic security for APS clients, especially elderly victims of financial abuse. This presentation will share successes, lessons learned and how to leverage existing resources and person-centered case management to emphasize homelessness prevention among high-risk clients.
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FT04) Partnerships to Better Meet the Transportation Needs of Older Adults with Vision LossFocus Area: Enhancing Independent Living Through Transportation Innovations This session will address the differences between travel training and orientation and mobility training. To enable older adults with vision loss to travel in the community and use public transportation to connect to jobs, school, health care, and other needed services, they could benefit from both. This session will highlight how both of these programs can work together to ensure that older adults who experience vision loss are able to get around in their communities.
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FT05) Innovation in Program Evaluation: Focusing on What Really MattersFocus Area: Running Your Agency: Strategies to Strengthen Systems and People Program evaluation doesn't have to be complicated to be powerful. A nonprofit leader and a consultant come together and bring to life the innovative and actionable Strategic Impact Map as a tool for (a) clearly communicating specifically how you are working to address community-level needs; (b) identify key data about the breadth and depth of reach, and the value and success for the people you serve, (c) guide the identification of funding streams that illuminate the cost of impacts; (d) be clear and focused on the data leadership should be continuously tracking and periodically assessing in strategic planning; and (e) provide common, intuitive, and simple language for staff involved in grant writing, communications, and marketing.
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FT06) Adding New Service Lines to Enhance Economic SecurityFocus Area: Cutting-Edge OAA and Aging Programs Attend this session to learn about a telehealth monitoring pilot program that the Harris County AAA launched in partnership with Freedmens Health. Each consumer was assigned a care team (physician, nurse, and case manager) and received a scale, pulse oximeter, blood pressure machine, blood glucose monitor (if applicable) and a Wi-Fi-tablet equipped with case management software. Following baseline screening, consumers completed daily monitoring via the Patient One app. The pilot was successful in identifying social service needs and potential COVID-19 cases by connecting consumers to appropriate social services resources or health providers to ensure issues were addressed in a timely fashion. An unforeseen benefit was the ability to quickly identify consumers impacted by the Texas Winter Freeze.
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CW02) A New Era of Expanded Leadership, Technology Advances and Contract Growth
Sponsored by: ![]() GroundGame.Health (GGH), a mission-driven social enterprise developed to serve CBOs in 2018, has grown to be the leading model for contracting with Managed Care Organizations, servicing all product lines. Currently operating in 26 states with 1,000+ Certified Care Coordinators, GGH provides a standardized and technology-guided, evidence-informed, care coordination intervention for high-risk patients. All referrals, workflow, documentation, and payments are managed electronically in its proprietary platform.
What sets GGH apart is its commitment to building the capacity of CBOs and ensuring a profitable, sustainable revenue stream. Come meet the expanded leadership team and be the first to hear about the evolution of GGH's business model and IT platform.
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FT08) What Every AAA Should Know About Parkinson's DiseaseFocus Area: Best Practices in Healthy Aging Nearly one million Americans are living with Parkinsons disease (PD), a neurodegenerative disorder with no cure that affects older adults. Impacting both physical and mental health, a diagnosis of PD is life altering. Yet, of the approximately 60,000 people diagnosed each year, nearly half leave the doctors office without resources. By helping connect people to resources and support, AAAs can be a lifeline for people with PD and their family caregivers. Collaborations between AAAs and the Parkinsons Foundation have helped reach people with PD across the country. This session will enable AAAs to direct people to essential support. Attendees will leave with an understanding of PD, a digital toolkit of resources that can be used to personalize care plans, and ideas for future opportunities to collaborate.
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FT09) Engaging Low-Income Older Adults in Community Change for Improved HealthFocus Area: Building Livable and Dementia-Friendly Communities The County of San Diego Health and Human Services Agency, Aging & Independence Services (AIS) has been inspiring low-income older adults to look at their environment with critical eyes and then effectively collaborate with their fellow residents and community organizations to create meaningful community change. Through this workshop, AIS staff will share innovative strategies used to inspire resident-led community change, including challenges and solutions faced when overcoming apathy, building partnerships, and sustaining efforts that result in policy, systems and environmental (PSE) changes. This session will equip participants with the tools to remove resident-identified barriers and mobilize older adults to become active members of their community.
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FT10) Which Evidence-Based Program is the Best Fit for Your Client?Focus Area: Cutting-Edge OAA and Aging Programs Finding the 'best fit' for successful engagement in an evidence-based program for your clients is essential. Presenters will share strategies for identifying client interests, preferences and needs, along with tips to increase completion rates. Since the onset of COVID-19, clients have learned there are multiple ways they can participate in a program. Options for learning and engagement are essential. Implementing brief screening tools can assist with narrowing EBP recommendations and/or suggesting participation in multiple programs to maximize clients' ability to increase socialization while improving and maintaining their health and quality of life. Someone might start with a one-on-one depression program, then move to a chronic pain group program, and later add an exercise program. Another person might begin with a virtual program and move to in-person programs.
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FT11) What is the National Community Care Corps?Focus Area: Supporting Caregivers Join us to learn about the Community Care Corps, a national program that fosters innovative models in which local volunteers assist family caregivers, older adults or adults with disabilities with nonmedical assistance in their own homes in order to maintain independence. This unprecedented, ACL-funded program is a great leap forward in helping older adults, people with disabilities and family caregivers! In addition to highlighting the work of our grantees and the positive impact their innovative volunteer models have on their community members, we will share information about a potential 2023 RFP for those who are inspired to submit a grant application.
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FT12) Advancing Innovations in Dementia-Capable HCBSFocus Area: Building Livable and Dementia-Friendly Communities As the number of people living with Alzheimers disease and related dementias (ADRD) grows, it is increasingly important to ensure the availability of dementia-capable home and community-based services. ACLs Alzheimers and dementia programs enable home and community-based providers across the nation to offer a wide range of culturally appropriate support and assistance to people affected by ADRD and their caregivers. Examples of recent assistance include respite, training and education, financial counseling, behavioral symptom management, home modifications, support groups, caregiver coaching, as well as art and music therapy. Every funded project offers at least one evidence-based or informed intervention.
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FT13) Using Motion and Projection to Enhance Your Dementia CommunityFocus Area: Building Livable and Dementia-Friendly Communities This presentation focuses on the use of motion and projection through the Lucynt Interactive system to enhance the cognitive functioning, sensory functioning, fine motor skills and socialization of people living with dementia. Lucynt Interactive is a state-of-the-art system that provides Adult Day Care Centers, health care facilities and other dementia programs with a life-enriching tool that promotes both physical and mental stimulation. Lucynt Interactive simply tracks body movements and gestures. This system can be projected onto a table, floor, or wall and the various games, outdoor scenery, and music are activated using simple hand motions and/or body movements. This fun and exciting projection system is easily adaptable to all dementia populations and provides an exciting new digital world of play for participants!
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FT14) Innovative Measures to Build Program Capacity With Stationary FundingFocus Area: Cutting-Edge OAA and Aging Programs Significant growth in the older adult population has drastically increased the need for AAAs to create program capacity and diversify funding streams. Utilizing a person-centered, graduated approach, Region 2 AAA has successfully redesigned its service delivery model to more effectively utilize and stretch Older Americans Act dollars, while offering even more services and supports to older adults and adults with disabilities in lower Michigan. The presenter will share tips for building budgets and best practices for reimagining existing programs and services that support older adults throughout their aging journey. This care model has created unique partnerships that have resulted in new sustainability options. This program approach is now in its third year and continues to yield positive results in the community.
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FT15) Strategies and Evaluation Methods to Enhance Your Agency’s Dementia CapabilityFocus Area: Building Livable and Dementia-Friendly Communities Alarming numbers of older adults are expected to develop dementia in the coming years, but many organizations do not have sufficient training or tools to meet the needs of these clients and their caregivers. To better serve the community, the County of San Diegos Aging & Independence Services implemented a three-tiered approach to increase dementia capability: 1) Increase cognitive screening as a service at a system level; 2) provide dementia-specific behavior modification interventions, using IDEA (Identify-Education-Adapt) training techniques for behavioral symptom management; and 3) offer dementia-friendly training and resources. In addition, this retrospective presentation will unpack evaluation methods utilized throughout the pilot period. Specific outcome data from our final evaluation pertaining to caregiver self-efficacy and organizational dementia capability will be highlighted.
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FT16) CHWs Reduce Social Isolation in Older Homebound Hispanic/LatinosFocus Area: Meeting the Needs of Diverse Aging Populations COVID-19 has had devastating effects for older adults, who have experienced the most severe consequences of the disease. Hispanic and Latino older adults are more likely to experience depression than other groups and have been especially impacted by social distancing measures. In this session, presenters will share and describe the results of MHP Saluds Community Health Workers (CHWs) program helping to reduce the effects of social isolation and feelings of loneliness among homebound Hispanic and Latino older adults in central Florida. This session will introduce the CHW profession, CHW roles and responsibilities, and how CHWs can help your AAA reach older adults from all parts of your community. Finally, presenters will share tips for starting/running a successful CHW program.
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FT17) Strategies to Stabilize People’s Lives, Addressing HomelessnessFocus Area: Building Livable and Dementia-Friendly Communities Eugene, Oregon, has one of the highest per capita rates of homelessness in the United States. Attend this session to learn how one AAA, Senior and Disability Services (SDS), responded to the growth in the number of older adults who are unhoused. Attendees will also learn how SDS has partnered with Homes for Good in Lane County, which is building two new permanent supportive housing properties. Through their partnership, Homes for Good agreed to reserve a specific set of units in each building, intended to open in 2022, for SDS clients who are at risk of homelessness or becoming unhoused.
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FT18) Connecting Vision to AgingFocus Area: Best Practices in Healthy Aging This session will cover what the Aging and Vision Loss National Coalition has been undertaking as a change agent in the work of reframing aging and vision loss and bringing together the aging and vision services networks. The presenters will review work to date and engage participants in a discussion of what they can do in their own communities, using the work that has been piloted as a basis for going forward.
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FT19) Community Advocacy Toolkit on Increasing Outreach with the LGBTQ+ CommunityFocus Area: Meeting the Needs of Diverse Aging Populations Attend this session to hear from SAGE about a new toolkit that will help the Aging Network and LGBTQ+ community work together to increase outreach and develop inclusive planning processes to accomplish plan goals, objectives and assurances on the service needs of LGBT older adults. This toolkit offers action steps for the LGBTQ+ community to get involved in the Aging Network to improve services and programs for LGBTQ+ older adults.
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GS03) Building Cross-Sector Dementia Care Models and Systems for the Future
Sponsored by: ![]() Millions of Americans and their caregivers live with Alzheimers disease every day with these numbers projected to more than double by 2050. This disease has enormous impacts on our communities, our health care and LTSS systems and, most importantly, on individuals lives. Cross-sector partnerships play an integral role in meeting the holistic needs of people with dementia and their caregivers. In this session well explore how AAAs, health care payers and providers, and researchers are working together to develop new dementia care models to address what matters to people living with this illness and build age-friendlyand dementia-friendly services and systems for the future.
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HT03) HOT TOPIC: 2022 White House Conference on Food, Nutrition, Hunger and Health
Sponsored by: ![]() In May, President Biden officially called the first White House Conference on Food and Nutrition since 1969. It will be held in September 2022 with a goal to produce a roadmap to end hunger and improve nutrition by 2030. This session will identify issues related to older adult nutrition that should be discussed at the Conference and provide updated information on how USAging members can be involved.
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RT04) A Listening Session on Today's Older American Acts...and Tomorrow'sJoin USAging and U.S. Administration on Aging leaders in a robust conversation about how the OAA is working for you and your clients, and what you wish it could do in the future. Although reauthorization of OAA is several years away, the COVID-era innovations, adaptations and flexibilities and the current updating of OAA regulations provide plenty to talk about. Bring your creative examples of new shifts in services and programs, your suggestions for additional solutions to providing person-centered care, and your questions about the existing OAA law, regulations and rules!
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W41) Reducing Isolation Through Internet Access and TrainingFocus Area: Addressing Social Isolation Through Engagement 43 percent of older adults report feeling lonely or isolated. Individuals age 60 and older who report feelings of loneliness had a 45 percent higher risk of death than those who do not report feeling lonely. Meanwhile, isolated seniors have a 59 percent greater risk of mental and physical decline than those who do not experience social isolation. For isolated older adults lacking the ability or the skills to access home internet, the COVID-19 isolation is not merely an inconvenience but a potentially life-threatening situation. In this presentation you will hear about Senior Connect, a scalable digital literacy training program targeted to older adults who face social isolation. Developed in response to the pandemic and delivered remotely, the program has been shown to decrease loneliness in program participants by 21 percent.
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W42) Integrating Behavioral Health Services in Aging and Adult ServicesFocus Area: Best Practices in Healthy Aging Attend this session to learn about the Public Guardian Age Wide Program. Developed by the California San Bernardino County Department of Aging and Adult Services, the program was the recipient of a USAging 2021 Aging Innovations Award and received a 2021 National Association of Counties Achievement Award in Human Services. Age Wise is a non-traditional behavioral health program for underserved older adults, which focuses on providing access to behavioral health and wellness services, support with feelings of social isolation, education and linkage to community resources, including housing for those most vulnerable and in need. The program strives to reduce instances of high utilizer emergency medical and psychiatric hospitalizations through provision of full-service partnership, outpatient treatment services intended to stabilize those experiencing behavioral health challenges.
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W43) Building Older Adult Resiliency to Prevent Elder MistreatmentFocus Area: Elder Justice The EMPOWER: Building Late-life Resilience program was developed by Urban Institute in partnership with the AAA in Phoenix, Arizona, through a grant from the National Institute of Justice (NIJ). Attendees will hear from AAA staff who will discuss how the program was developed and implemented, including the creation of 12 modules that build older adult resiliency and address different risk and protective factors of elder abuse such as physical safety, emotional health, financial security, and social connection. Presenters will share sample content along with outcomes data, staff experiences and how the program is continuing today. This session will provide a great hands-on example of a community-based elder mistreatment program the AAA created and successfully implemented.
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W44) Making GAINS: When Business Intelligence, Quality Improvement and Development CollideFocus Area: Running Your Agency: Strategies to Strengthen Systems and People Take a deep dive with us into the significance of the GAINS movement. With a concerted and focused effort on Growth, Analytics, Improvement, Networking and Securing new business lines, the presenters have developed a new approach to old business strategies by implementing the GAINS methodology. Using all five components of GAINS, agencies will propel themselves into the new frontier of for-profit initiatives and out-of-the-box business development practices. This session will conclude with a conversation on experiences of implementation of the GAINS methodology and a review of lessons learned. Come along and start building the new landscape for your agency.
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W45) Deploying Rapid-Response HCBS to Reduce Hospitalizations: Partnerships with PayersFocus Area: Health Care Contracting and Integrated Care Deploying Rapid Response HCBS services for older adults can reduce hospitalizations, length of stay, and ED visits - and demonstrate your value preposition to health systems and payors! Learn how Region IV AAA created a package of Rapid Response HCBS services targeted to meet the needs of COVID positive older adults' to avoid hospitalization or reduce length of stay. Hear how partnerships with funders, health systems and public health were developed to launch the Rapid Response HCBS service to meet seniors needs during the pandemic paved the way for sustained service delivery utilizing Medicare FFS codes and further philanthropic support. Initial funding, referral development strategies, communication tools, and tracking and outcome measurement mechanisms that facilitate this work in a remote world will be discussed.
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W46) Meeting the Needs of Diverse Family Caregivers TrainingFocus Area: Meeting the Needs of Diverse Aging Populations Are you a health care or social service provider who wants to best serve older adults and caregivers from historically marginalized communities, but you're not sure where to start? Do you offer a program for caregivers, but you're not sure if you're meeting their most pressing needs? Attend Diverse Elders Coalitions Meeting the Needs of Diverse Family Caregivers training to learn the unique experiences and needs of older adults and caregivers from communities of color, as well as LGBT communities. In our training, you'll explore how culture and language impact not only the experiences of family caregivers, but also their own health outcomes. You will deepen your cultural understanding and learn how to engage family caregivers in culturally meaningful and relevant ways.
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W47) Reducing Vaccine Hesitancy in Underserved and Vulnerable PopulationsFocus Area: Meeting the Needs of Diverse Aging Populations The COVID-19 pandemic has put underserved and vulnerable populations at an increased risk for exposure to COVID-19 and negative health outcomes. Many AAAs operate in environments rife with misinformation and vaccine hesitancy. AAAs across the country have been immersed in the effort to support vaccinations of seniors and family caregivers. Efforts including the Communities RISE initiative have engaged with a variety of AAAs in establishing previously untapped partners to ensure that vulnerable populations have equal access to vaccines. Providing culturally and linguistically appropriate information helps combat vaccine misinformation and hesitancy in the community. This session provides practical approaches to reduce hesitancy through relational and practical approaches. Presenters will describe how interventions led by Community Health Workers (CHW) and developing creative partnerships can boost vaccine confidence in vulnerable and underserved communities. Participants will engage in interactive discussion and learning, and leave equipped with tools to help reduce hesitancyone relationship at a time.
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W48) Increasing Housing Stability Through Aging, Disability, Housing and Transportation PartnershipsFocus Area: Enhancing Independent Living Through Transportation Innovations Partnerships across aging, disability, housing and transportation are essential to enhance independent living and housing stability for older adults, people with disabilities and caregivers. Transportation helps people engage in their communities, maintain a job, access education, shop for groceries, obtain health care services, attend social functions and more. Gain insight into federal partnerships and technical assistance resources that support aging, disability, housing and transportation partnership development. Hear how these partnerships were formed, the tools they've developed and the strategies they use to enhance the lives of the people in Toledo, OH.
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W49) Managed Long-Term Services and Supports: AAA Readiness for Business TransformationFocus Area: Advancing Our Advocacy Growth in the populations of older adults and people with disabilities who use Medicaid services significantly impacts state Medicaid budgets and resources. As states look to expand service coverage, reduce cost and increase accountability for quality of care, they increasingly turn to managed long-term services and supports. More than 35 states have introduced MLTSS. MLTSS often relies on managed care organizations to deliver integrated medical and HCBS services. AAAs must be actively engaged in these system transformations to carve a niche in MLTSS for their sustainability and for their clients' well-being. This workshop provides an orientation to MLTSS and offers strategic insight to help AAAs leverage advocacy and engagement to assure they have a seat at the MLTSS transformation table.
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MW01) Intersection of Homelessness and Aging: Partnerships Highlight Creative Solutions to Adding Permanent Supportive Housing in One of America's Least Affordable CitiesAs the numbers of older adults experiencing homelessness across North America grow, there is an urgent need to add affordable housing stock. It is also imperative to understand the unique health, housing and social support needs of this diverse population. In this moderated panel discussion, participants will learn how investments by the public and private sectors can work together to increase housing and housing security for older adults.
Austin is one of the least affordable cities in America. The cost of land, limited public funding for housing builds, and highly competitive tax credit programs make it extremely challenging to build more affordable units. This panel presentation will provide insight into creative solutions based on a recognition of need and investment by both the public and private sectors to address this momentous challenge.
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HT04) HOT TOPIC: Referrals, Technology, Person-Centered Outcomes and MCOs – A Listening Session
Sponsored by: ![]() Join this interactive discussion on the evolving integrated care landscape and the networks perspective on technology platforms, high-quality referrals, the networks role in the Information & Referral and assessment process, and what delivers a patient-centered approach that benefits the client when working with an MCO. Our panelists will get the conversation going by providing insights on issues AAAs should be watching and explaining why they are relevant to agencies working to partner with MCOs. Be ready to provide your insights and observationswe want to hear from you!
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W50) RAISE Family Caregiver Act: Shaping the National Strategy for CaregivingFocus Area: Supporting Caregivers The RAISE Family Caregiver Advisory Council submitted a report on the status of caregiving to Congress in the fall of 2021. This report is only the first step of the process. The Advisory Council is now in the process of developing a first ever National Strategy for Caregiving. This interactive session is your chance to learn how YOU can contribute to this national strategy.
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W51) Strategies to Implement and Maintain Hybrid ProgrammingFocus Area: Addressing Social Isolation Through Engagement Virtual programming helped maintain social connections during the COVID-19 pandemic, and as in-person activities began to resume, a hybrid format for programming emerged. When in-person and virtual programs are offered together, consumers can determine which format best meets their needs and comfort leveland remain engaged and connected to one another. This workshop will highlight best practices and lessons learned during the implementation of hybrid engagement programming and provide strategies that others Aging Network can use when exploring hybrid events.
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W53) The Next Level of LGBTQI+ TrainingFocus Area: Meeting the Needs of Diverse Aging Populations Visibility Matters describes a variety of training options created by Pima Council on Aging to help service providers better serve LGBTQI+ older adults. Attendees will learn about the process of building a collection of trainings that advances our understanding of this unique community. This process brings to the forefront identities that have been marginalized, including intersex, trans, and two-spirit, and uses an intersectional and anti-racist framework to ensure a comprehensive approach to education about LGBTQI+ older people. Discrimination and stigma are barriers to aging services for this community. Empowering Aging Network organizations to better serve this community creates a path forward for LGBTQI+ older adults to receive the care they deserve. Join this session to learn about the importance of creating a truly inclusive training.
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W54) Building a Network Lead Entity: Lessons from Florida and MaineFocus Area: Health Care Contracting and Integrated Care A Community Integrated Health Network (CIHN) is an organizing model connecting health care and community-based organizations delivering social services. CIHNs are led by Network Lead Entities (NLEs) which coordinate a network of visible and trusted CBOs, and offer a single point of contact for developing contracts with commercial health care payers and providers to deliver key services related to the social determinants of health. Come to this session to learn about the development and growth of two ACL-funded NLEs in Florida and Maine, the challenges they have faced and successes they have achieved. The workshop will challenge attendees to identify creative solutions to issues AAAs may face when designing and building an NLE framework, and offer tips and ideas on NLE and CIHN development, health care contracting and data utilization to improve service delivery.
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W55) Speed Networking with Nutrition Innovation Grantees: Connect, Learn & Go!Focus Area: Cutting-Edge OAA and Aging Programs So you want to start an innovative nutrition program? Meet five leaders who have done just that across the country during this fast-paced and exciting speed-networking session! Attendees will have the chance to learn how ACL Innovations in Nutrition Programs and Services grantees are revolutionizing senior nutrition programs for 2022 and beyond. Featured projects may include: closing gaps in nutrition services, starting a culturally competent and medically tailored meal program, modernizing congregate nutrition programs by working with local restaurants for café-style projects, preparing the Aging Network to respond to catastrophic emergencies using tested strategies, and leveraging technology and empowering older adults to manage their mental and physical health. Get your questions answered, obtain replication materials and start planning your own innovation projects!
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W56) Achieving 100% on NCQA Accreditation and Improving Health OutcomesFocus Area: Running Your Agency: Strategies to Strengthen Systems and People Bay Aging and the Detroit Area Agency on Aging (DAAA) successfully achieved the National Committee for Quality Assurances (NCQA) accreditation for Case Management for Long Term Services and Supports and will each share the strategies and innovative methods they used to help participants accomplish this feat. DAAA staff will show how a 100 percent score is achievable by sharing their step-by-step framework and team-building methods that led it to achieve a perfect score. Bay Aging will review the intricate process to develop a systematic care coordination program that can help organizations achieve NCQA accreditation while also better assessing health quality across populations and positioning organizations to contract with other health entities. Participants will leave with ideas, strategies and the feeling of empowerment as they contemplate pursuing NCQA accreditation.
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W57) Promoting Equity Through Innovative Models of Community CareFocus Area: Best Practices in Healthy Aging The John A. Hartford Business Innovation Award recognizes aging and disability CBOs for their innovative approaches to reduce health care costs and improve the well-being of older adults and people with disabilities through strategic partnerships with health care entities. Presented by USAgings Aging and Disability Business Institute, this award draws national attention to the importance of cross-sector collaborations and spurs replication of these partnerships. This panel presentation and discussion showcases the 2021 award recipients and provides insight into using innovative models to deliver enhanced community health services and care for vulnerable older adults and people with disabilities.
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W58) Creating Equal Access for Native People Living with DisabilitiesFocus Area: Title VI Programs: Unique Challenges and Solutions In collaboration with the National Council on Disability (NCD), the National Indian Council on Aging has embarked on updating the NCDs 2003 Understanding Disabilities in American Indian and Alaska Native Communities: Toolkit Guide. The foundation of this project was formed in a powerful sharing of experiences, knowledge and hopes among consumers and advocates who live with disabilities. The guide is revised to meet the current needs of our target audiences with current comprehensive educational materials aimed at reaching the Aging Network, non-tribal organizations, and American Indians and Alaska Natives. This new consciousness will serve to transform Indian communities nationally and offer a new hope to so many individuals who for so long have felt invisible with no voice.
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MW02) Technology & Aging, Evolving Together: The Importance of Digital Inclusion and Cross-Sector PartnershipsJoin this mobile workshop to visit the newly updated and beautiful Austin Central Library for an interactive discussion with local leaders who have helped bridge the digital divide for older adults in central Texas. Attendees will learn about a variety of digital inclusion projects that span urban, suburban, rural and underserved communities. Project partners from public, private and governm |