New resources:
Tips for Making a Hospital to Home Transition, www.medicare.gov/caregivers/index.asp#videos
Planning for your Discharge Guide, www.medicare.gov/caregivers/index.asp#videos
Medicare: A Primer, http://www.kff.org/medicare/7615.cfm
The MetLife Study of Working Caregivers and Employer Health Care Costs, http://www.metlife.com/mmi/research/working-caregiver-employer-health-care-costs.html
Medicaid Payment for Assisted Living: Current State Practices, and Recommendations for Improvement, January 2010, http://www.nsclc.org/areas/long-term-care/Assisted%20Living/medicaid-payment-for-assisted-living-current-state-practices-and-recommendations-for-improvement/at_download/attachment
Safe at Home? Developing Effective Criminal Background Checks and Other Screening Policies for Home Care Workers, http://www.aarp.org/research/ppi/ltc/care/articles/2009-12.html
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AGING
& HEALTH
A Profile of Older Americans: 2009, http://www.aoa.gov/AoARoot/Aging_Statistics/Profile/index.aspx
Data Sources on Older Americans 2009, http://www.agingstats.gov/agingstatsdotnet/Main_Site/Data/2009_Documents/Final_DSOA2009_508.pdf
Federal and State Income Tax Incentives for Private Long-Term Care Insurance, http://www.aarp.org/research/ppi/ltc/ltc-ins/articles/2009-19-tax-incentives.html
Report on Shortfalls in Medicaid Funding for Nursing Home Care, http://www.ahcancal.org/research_data/funding/Documents/2009%20Medicaid%20Shortfall%20Report.pdf
The Legal Guide for the Seriously Ill, http://www.caringinfo.org/UserFiles/File/PDFs/AdvanceCarePlanningLegalIssues/Legal_Guide_for_Seriously_Ill.pdf
Resource Tests and Eligibility for Federal Assistance Programs: Effects of Current Rules and Options for Change, http://www.aarp.org/research/ppi/econ-sec/low-income/articles/2010-01-resource-tests.html
To be or Not to Be Homebound: The Limits of States’ Discretion in Medicaid’s Coverage for Home Health Services, http://www.nsclc.org/areas/medicaid/to-be-or-not-to-be-homebound-the-limits-of-states2019-discretion-in-medicaid2019s-coverage-for-home-health-services/at_download/attachment
Advancing Access to Medicaid Home and Community-Based
Services: Key Palliative Care: The Relief You Need When You're
Experiencing the Symptoms of Serious Illness, http://www.nih.gov/news/health/nov2009/ninr-20.htm
Selected Characteristics of Baby Boomers 42 to 60 Years Old in 2006, http://www.census.gov/population/www/socdemo/age/general-age.html#bb
Income of Americans Aged 65 and Older, 1968 to 2008, http://opencrs.com/document/RL33387/
Issues Based on a Working Group Discussion with Medicaid Experts, http://www.kff.org/medicaid/7970.cfm
Efforts in States to Promote Medicaid Community-Based Services and
Supports, http://www.kff.org/medicaid/7969.cfm
Medicare Hospice Care for Beneficiaries in Nursing Facilities: Compliance With
Medicare Coverage Requirements, http://www.oig.hhs.gov/oei/reports/oei-02-06-00223.pdf
For Older Women: Tips for Good Health in Later
Life
AGing Integrated Database (AGID) updated to include data from 2008, http://www.data.aoa.gov/
Consejos de Salud Para Tí (Health Advice for You), http://www.ahrq.gov/consumer/espanoix.htm
Helping the Senior Driver in Your Life, http://www.aaaseniors.com/
Medicare Basics: A Guide for Families & Friends of People with Medicare,
http://www.disability.gov/health/health_insurance/medicare
An Aging World: 2008, http://www.census.gov/prod/2009pubs/p95-09-1.pdf
Health Characteristics of Adults Aged 55 Years
and Over: United States, 2004-2007, http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nhsr/nhsr016.pdf
Medicare Part D
Appeals: An Advocate's Manual to navigating the Medicare Private Drug Plan
Appeals Process, http://www.kintera.org/TR.asp?a=glKQKbPTJdIWLoK&s=ddLKKJPnEcIDJOPpGjG&m=mqLQJXPyGbLYE&af=y
Tapping Home Equity in Retirement: The MetLife Study on the Changing Role
of Home Equity and Reverse Mortgages, http://www.metlife.com/assets/cao/mmi/publications/studies/mmi-tapping-home-equity-retirement.pdf
Caring for a Person with Alzheimer's
Disease, www.nia.nih.gov/Alzheimers/Publications/CaringAD
CDC’s Healthy Aging Program At-A-Glance 2009,: www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/publications/aag/aging.htm
CDC Seeks to Protect Older Adults With Shingles Vaccine Message, http://www.chronicdisease.org/files/public/shinglesFINAL3_21_08.pdf
Curbing Medicare Advantage Overpayments Could
Benefit Millions Of Low-Income And Minority Americans, http://www.cbpp.org/2-19-09health.htm
“The Effect of Smoking on Trends in U.S Mortality at Older Ages," http://www.prb.org/Journalists/Webcasts/2009/smokingusmortality.aspx
Health Care Reform: What’s at Stake for 50- to 64-Year-Olds?, http://www.aarp.org/research/health/carefinancing/i24_hcr.html
Home Modifications: Use, Cost, and Interactions
with Functioning Among Near-Elderly and Older Adults, http://aspe.hhs.gov/daltcp/reports/2008/homemod.htm
Key Health and Health Care Indicators by Race/Ethnicity, http://www.kff.org/minorityhealth/7633.cfm
National Resource Center for Participant-Directed Services, www.participantdirection.org
Medicare Advantage Plans, http://www.healthaffairs.org/healthpolicybriefs/brief.php?brief_id=1
Medicare Primer, http://opencrs.com/document/R40425/
“Practical Solutions
for Effective Translated Health Information” toolkit, http://www.rwjf.org/qualityequality/product.jsp?id=39591
Preventing Falls: How to Develop Community-based Fall Prevention
Programs for Older Adults, http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/preventingfalls/CDC_Guide.pdf
Preventing Falls: What Works - A CDC Compendium of Effective
Community-based Interventions from Around the World, http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/preventingfalls/CDCCompendium_030508.pdf
Preventing
Serious Falls: Tips for Older Adults and Their Loved Ones, http://www.healthinaging.org/public_education/falls_tips.php
Smoking and Older Adults podcast, http://www2a.cdc.gov/podcasts/player.asp?f=10296
Community Integration for Older Adults with Mental Illnesses: Overcoming
Barriers and Seizing Opportunities, http://download.ncadi.samhsa.gov/ken/pdf/SMA05-4018/OlderAdults.pdf
Dealing with "Persistent" Pain in Later Life, http://www.healthinaging.org/public_education/persistent_pain_tips.php
Medicare Basics for Caregivers, http://www.nih.gov/news/health/may2009/nia-13.htm
Mentally Healthy Aging: A Report on Overcoming Stigma for Older Americans, http://download.ncadi.samhsa.gov/ken/pdf/SMA05-3988/aging_stigma.pdf
Update on Medicare Spending and Financing and Highlights from the 2009 Medicare
Trustees' Report Chartpack, http://www.kff.org/medicare/7905.cfm
Medicare Spending and Financing Fact Sheet May 2009 Update, http://www.kff.org/medicare/7305.cfm
Health Insurance Coverage for Older Adults: Implications of a Medicare Buy-In, http://www.kff.org/healthreform/7904.cfm
What Older Adults and Their Caregivers Need to Know About the 2009 H1N1 Flu
("Swine Flu"): Advice from the American Geriatrics Society's
Foundation for Health in Aging, http://www.healthinaging.org/public_education/H1N1_swineFLU_tips.php
CAREGIVING
Assuring Healthy Caregivers: A Public Health Approach to Translating
Research into Practice: The RE-AIM Framework, http://www.cdc.gov/aging/caregiving/index.htm
Caregiving and Ambiguous Loss, http://www.caregiver.org/caregiver/jsp/content_node.jsp?nodeid=2185
Caregiver
Conversation Checklist, http://www.alz.org/national/documents/release_052008_checklist.pdf
Caregiver Information: Ask Medicare, http://www.medicare.gov/caregivers/
Caregiving in the U.S. 2009, http://www.aarp.org/research/surveys/care/ltc/hc/articles/caregiving_09.html
INCOME/FINANCIAL
Broken Trust: Elders,
Family, and Finance, http://www.metlife.com/assets/cao/mmi/publications/studies/mmi-studies-broken-trust.pdf
The Characteristics of Social Security
Beneficiaries Who Claim Benefits at the Early Entitlement Age, http://msg1svc.net/cbuab/161323/41/6243/145/0/S/qiiz.html
"Housing for the
55+ Market: Trends and Insights on Boomers and Beyond," http://www.metlife.com/assets/cao/mmi/publications/studies/housing-for-the-55-plus-market.pdf
One Time Economic Recovery Payment resources:
http://www.socialsecurity.gov/pubs/10519.html
http://www.ncoa.org/userfiles/file/SSA%20pamphlet%20OneTime.pdf
http://www.ncoa.org/userfiles/file/250_payment_general.pdf
http://www.ncoa.org/userfiles/file/250_payment_rf.pdf
http://www.ltcombudsman.org/ombpublic/251_1339_14228.cfm
LONG TERM CARE
Across the States 2009: Profiles of Long-Term Care and Independent Living,
http://www.aarp.org/research/longtermcare/trends/d19105_2008_ats.html
The Future of Long-Term Care: What Is Its Place
in the Health Reform Debate?, http://www.urban.org/publications/411908.html
Examining the Role of Private Long-Term Care Insurance
in the Financing of Long-Term Care, http://www.kff.org/insurance/kcmu060309pkg.cfm
How to Talk to Your Healthcare Practitioner: Tips on Improving Patient-Practitioner
Communication, http://www.healthinaging.org/public_education/communication_tips.php
Examining the Role of Private Long-Term Care Insurance in the Financing of Long-Term
Care, http://www.kff.org/insurance/kcmu060309pkg.cfm
10 Questions to Answer… Before You or a Loved One
Needs Long-Term Care, http://www.heinzfamily.org/tenquestions/question1.htm
10 Questions to Answer… Before You or A
Loved One Purchase Long-Term Care, http://www.heinzfamily.org/tenquestions/question2.htm
10 Questions to Answer... Before Choosing a
Nursing Home or Assisted Living , http://www.heinzfamily.org/tenquestions/question3.htm
10 Questions to Answer... Before Managing Your Long-Term Care Services, http://www.heinzfamily.org/tenquestions/question4.htm
10 Questions to Answer... When You are Not Happy with Your Long-Term Care , http://www.heinzfamily.org/tenquestions/question5.htm
The Almanac of Chronic Disease, http://www.fightchronicdisease.org/pdfs/2009_PFCDAlmanac.pdf
Alzheimer’s Disease Facts and Figures, http://www.alz.org/national/documents/report_alzfactsfigures2009.pdf
Can Alzheimer's Disease Be Prevented, www.nia.nih.gov/Alzheimers/Publications/ADPrevented
MISCELLANEOUS TOPICS
Where Would You Turn For Help? Older Adults’
Knowledge and Awareness of Community Support Services, http://socserv.socsci.mcmaster.ca/sedap/p/sedap244.pdf
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