U.S. Administration on Aging Update

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U.S. Administration on Aging Update

• Presented by S Clark
• 2007 AIRS Conference

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Outline

• Older Americans Month
• AoA Strategic Plan
• OAA Reauthorization
• OAA Reauthorization Gateway Tool
• Choices for Independence
• A Healthier US Starts Here
• Other activities

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Older Americans Month

• Materials available on AoA website
• Presidents Proclamation
• Logos
• Posters
• Sample proclamation/article
• Program Champions
• http//www.aoa.gov/press/oam/oam.asp

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OAA Reauthorization

• OAA embeds the principles of Choices for
  Independence
• Enhanced coordination of LTC services in home and
  community-based settings
• Support for planning to address the LTC needs of
  the baby boom generation  
• Greater focus on prevention and treatment of
  mental disorders
• Outreach and service to a broader universe under
  the NFCSP
• Increased focus on civic engagement and
  volunteerism  
• Enhanced coordination of programs that protect
  elders from abuse, neglect and exploitation

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OAA Reauth Gateway

• A web tool
• Outline summary of new provisions
• Statutory text for each new provisions
• Frequently Asked Questions and
• Technical Assistance/resource links.

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AoA Strategic Plan

• Strengthening the role of the Network in LTC and
• Implementing the new provisions in the OAA that
  reflect the key principles of Choices
• Available on AoA.gov

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AoA Strategic Plan

• Strategic Goals
• Empower older people, their families, and other
  consumers to make
• informed decisions
• Enable seniors to remain in their own homes
• Empower older people to stay active and healthy
• Ensure the rights of older people and prevent
  their abuse, neglect, and exploitation.
• Maintain effective and responsive management.

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A Three-Pronged Strategy
Choices for Independence

• Consumer Empowerment
• More Choices for High-Risk Individuals
• Healthy Lifestyles

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Consumer Empowerment

• Launched in 2003
• Joint initiative of AoA and Centers for Medicare
  and Medicaid Services
• Currently funding 43 States
• Vision
• To create a single, coordinated system of
  information and access for all persons seeking
  long term support to minimize confusion, enhance
  individual choice, and support informed
  decision-making

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Consumer Empowerment - ADRCs

• Awareness Information
• Public Education
• Information on Options
• Assistance
• Options Counseling
• Benefits Counseling
• Employment Options Counseling
• Referral
• Crisis Intervention
• Planning for Future Needs
• Access
• Eligibility Screening
• Private Pay Services
• Comprehensive Assessment
• Programmatic Eligibility Determination
• Medicaid Financial Eligibility Determination
• One-Stop Access to all public programs

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Consumer Empowerment

• Aging and Disability Resource Center Programs
• Proposing a competitive funding opportunity open
  to 04 grantees
• Grantees can either expand coverage or implement
  new activities related to integrating access to
  publicly funded LTC

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Consumer Empowerment www.longtermcare.gov
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Offering More Choice for High-Risk Individuals

• Community Living Incentive
• A nursing home diversion strategy that builds on
  the Aging Networks existing work to develop
  comprehensive systems of community-based supports
  to help people live at home for as long as
  possible and avoid unnecessary placement in
  nursing homes

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Offering More Choice for High-Risk Individuals

• Effective Nursing Home Diversion
• Service Elements
• Flexible Services, supports and financing
• Targets individuals at high risk of NH placement
• Targets individuals at high risk of Medicaid
  Spend down
• Complements the efforts of family caregivers and
  other
• community supports

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Offering More Choice for High-Risk Individuals

• Effective Nursing Home Diversion
• Systems Elements
• Single entry point system
• Quality management and assurance
• Mechanisms to support consumer directed
• service options
• Performance measurement

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Offering More Choice for High-Risk Individuals
Effective Nursing Home Diversion FY 2007
Funding opportunity for States to put Service
and Systems elements in place to provide nursing
home diversion programs through existing funding
streams FY 2008 Funding in the Presidents
Budget to demonstrate the Community Living
Incentive in select states utilizing Older
Americans Act funding
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Healthy Lifestyles

• The Aging Network has been providing health
  promotion and disease prevention programming for
  decades in such areas as nutrition and physical
  activity/exercise using Older Americans Act and
  other funding sources

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Healthy Lifestyles

• Today...
• Funders are increasingly demanding that
  programming be based on solid evidence
• Agency leaders want to concentrate limited
  resources on proven programs
• Older adults themselves are looking for programs
  that have been proven to work

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Healthy Lifestyles

• Evidence-based Disease and Disability Prevention
• Chronic Disease Self-Management
• Falls Prevention
• Nutrition
• Physical Activity
• Others

Delivered Through Aging Network Services
Providers
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Healthy Lifestyles

• AoA Evidence-Based Disease Prevention Program
• Funded 12 grants to communities in 2003
• Grant to NCOA for TA Resource Center
• Funded 16 states in 2006

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Healthy Lifestyles

• 2006 16 grants awarded to states
• Grants are being used to demonstrate how
  states
• can develop the systems to build, implement,
  and
• sustain high quality EBDP programs throughout
  the
• aging services network.
• 8 additional states to be funded in FY 2007

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Choices for Independence
ME
WA
VT
MT
ND
MN
OR
NH
MA
NY
ID
WI
SD
RI
MI
WY
PA
CT
IA
NJ
OH
NE
IN
NV
DE
IL
WV
VA
UT
CO
MD
KS
KY
CA
MO
NC
TN
SC
OK
NM
AZ
AR
GA
AL
MS
TX
LA
FL
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Resources
Choices for Independence
ADRC www.adrc-tae.org Cash and Counseling
www.cashandcounseling.org Healthy Aging
www.healthyagingprograms.com
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A Healthier US Starts Here

• Initiative sponsored by DHHS/CMS and others
• Tour to promote prevention healthier living and
  to motivate
• beneficiaries to make the most of
  Medicares preventive services
• Next four months, the tour will visit 48 states
• In addition to promoting prevention, the tour
  will focus on
• MyMedicare.gov website
• http//www.cms.hhs.gov/MyHealthMyMedicare/02_Healt
  hierUS.asp

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Other Activities

• FDA
• Food labeling effort Labelman
• www.cfsan.fda.gov/labelman
• Awareness materials aimed at women
• www.fda.gov/womens/pubs.html
• SAMSHA
• MOU
• Health Literacy
• Attend session

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Thank you!
Sherri.Clark_at_aoa.hhs.gov