The 24th Annual Home and Community Based Services Conference was held in Boston in October, 2008. Administrators, researchers, educators and providers met to learn about policies, research, and new waiver and technical assistance and training opportunities. The full range of HCBS issues was covered including Medicaid basics, creativity in wavier design, balancing long term services, nursing home diversion issues and quality management strategies. 

 

Transportation; Personal Assistant; Person Centered Planning; Nursing Facility Transition; Medicaid; Long Term Services and Supports; Individualized Budget; Independent Living; Independence Plus; Expenditures; Eligibility; Community Inclusion; Cash and Counseling; Caregiving; Aging and Disability Resource Center; Advocacy; 1915c; Wages and Benefits; medication; options counseling;Creativity in Waiver Design: How Managed Care and Home and Community Based Services Work Together to Create a New Model of Community Care; One Vision, One Call: Coordinating Human Services Transportation Systems Using Technology; Louisville Region; Travel Management Coordination Center; ITS Enhancing Mobility Services for All Americans; Successfully Finding, Choosing and Keeping Your Personal Assistants; Implementing Medication Management; A howtoguide for CMA; MassMedLine; Medicaid Basics: What Every Program Administrator Needs to Know About Medicaid and the General Medicaid Rules that Apply to Home and Community Based Services; Preparing Aging Services for the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender “Age Wave”; Of, By and For the People: Consumers Evaluating Home and Community Based Services Programs; Quality Care Connections: A Collaborative Partnership Model That Works; Transforming Quality for Long Term Care: States on Systems Transformation Grant Quality Initiatives; From information and Referral to ADRC; ADRC as Keystone to Broader LTC Balancing Efforts; LTC Options Counseling- The MA Experience; MA ADRC; Beyond the Demonstration and Eval; Results from the 2007 n4a Survey; Self-Direction Programs & Policies Handbook; Promoting Health through Community Collaboration; Diabetes; Evidenced Based Disease Prevention Programs; WYS An Education and Screening Program for Fall Prevention; Piloting a Falls Prevention Program in Assisted Living; How to Work with Nursing Facilities to Downsize and Reconfigure their Assets to Meet Changing Market Realities and Reinvest the Medicaid Savings; Managing Risk While Supporting Consumer Decision Making in Options Counseling; Options Counseling Supporting Consumer Decision; Options Counseling in Arkansas; AARP PubPol Inst. Adult Family Care; The Freedom Trail; Policy Approaches to Permit Assistance; Where Isn’t PACE in Pennsylvania?; Changing Times, Changing Attitudes: Maine’s Effort to Shrink the Role of Guardianship in an Era of Self Direction; HIV Positive and Over 50: We Are All At Risk; The Freedom Trail: Independence through Community Housing Alternatives; A Methodology for Projecting a State’s Long Term Care Costs; Nursing Home Diversion Modernization Initiative: Modernizing the Aging Network’s Role in Long Term Care; Boston's Multicultural Coalition on Aging; More than Words-Fostering Understanding & Collaboration; Maryland’s Experience Building Systems to Facilitate Community Integration and Empower Program Participants; From Program Focused to Person Centered: Changing the Culture of a Human Services Agency; Making Emergency Preparedness Accessible to All; Restructuring Quality Management: Lessons Learned from Pennsylvania; Targeted Case Management in Home and Community Based Services Programs; The Role of the Long Term Care Ombudsman in a Modernizing Long Term Care System; Charting the Ombudsman Prgms Role; Future_in_SLTCO; State Examples; Transportation: An Essential Support for Community Living; Mid-County- Transportation; Managed Long Term Care, Part 2: Challenges to Operationalizing a managed Long Term Care Program; Consumer Needs Assessment: Tools to Assist in Self Assessment and Quality Provider Selection; Connection Technology Getting Everyone Connected is Key to Successful Direction Waiver Programs; Bridging the Gap NY; SWLI National Initiative; Comprehension Care Coordinaton; NYAM coordination; When a Case Manager Wears More than One Hat: Practical Tools for Identifying and Addressing a Conflict of Interest; Penn Aging Services; State Funded HCBS programs; COPE Nevada Div. Aging Services; Children's Hospice Int'l ChiPACC; CMS Prgm for All-Inclusive Care; COLORADO PACC - THE BUTTERFLY PROGRAM; Public Private Partnerships Can Serve as Models to Help Seniors Live Independently; Telemonitoring-A Collaborative Project; New Directions: State by State Results from Annual Aging Network Assessment; The OAA- New Opportunitiesfor Implementation; New Directions for Aging Network; Implementing Change in an Established System; Implementing Self-Direction Programs; The Future; Launching the MA Autism Program; CLTS Waivers; Oklahoma HCA; Partnering to Create Workforce Solutions; Money Follows the Person Demonstration Initiatives: Early Implementation Experiences; NH-Community Passport; my life my way my community; Using Data Improve Support Quality Outcomes; NCI Survey Tools; Improving Home and Community Based Services Waiver Resource Allocation: Cross State Examination of Efforts to Develop Reimbursement Levels and Individual Budgets Using the Supports Intensity Scale; Using the SIS to Assess Individual Needs; Advancing Understanding of the Aging Network’s Role in States Home and Community Based Services Systems; Collecting and Using Data for Home and Community Based Services QI; Preventing Disability: The Texas Demonstration to Maintain Independence and Employment; Success In Indiana: The Results of Effective Public and Private Collaboration; Navigating the Quality Improvement Ship in Blue Waters; New York State’s Long Term Care Councils: A Vehicle for Community Change; Community Service Grants: Venture Capital for Transforming Minnesota’s Long Term Care System; Medication Mgmt; Healthy Moves for Aging Well; Healthy IDEAS MAINE; Improving the Detection and Treatment of Depression; Issues in the Development of Home and Community Based Services Programs for Persons with Mental Illness 

Accessibility, Aging Issues, Consumer/Participant Direction, Deficit Reduction Act (DRA), Financing HCBS, Housing, Long-Term Care, Mental Health, Money Follows the Person, Physical Disabilities, Psychiatric Disabilities/Mental Illness, Quality, State/Agency Information, Transition/Diversion from Institutions, Waiver, Workforce/Direct Care 

Archived conference materials / Presentations 

NASUA; National Association of State Units on Aging 

All States/Territories 

11/04/2008 

Kimberly Fletcher
National Association of State Units on Aging

kfletcher@nasua.org
202-898-2578