MFP News
2013
- June 18 The Medicaid Program at a Glance
- May 31 The Family Caregiver Turns Pro (Paula Span, New York Times)
- May 20 Disruptions: Helper Robots Are Steered, Tentatively, to Care for the Aging
- Apr 22 Beleaguered Caregivers Getting Help from Apps (Jim Fitzgerald, 2013)
- Feb 14 Confronting the legacy of Baby Boomer long-term care
- Jan 23 Hospital Readmissions All Too Common, U.S. Studies Find
- Jan 18 New Going Home Plus Success Stories
2012
- Dec 9 Projects get people talking about end of life care
- Dec 3 Protecting family caregivers from employment discrimination
- Nov 26 Role of Medicaid for People with Behavioral Health Conditions
- Nov 20 Upbeat View on Old Age May Help Seniors Bounce Back From Disability
- Oct 23 Nursing Home Residents Returning to the Community
- Oct 2 Alzheimer’s Patients Tracked with Satellite Technology
- Sept 24 With Medicaid, Long-Term Care of Elderly Looms as a Rising Cost
- Sept 6 For Veterans, an Alternative to the Nursing Home
- Sept 6 Some Agencies’ Lapses Allow for Unfit Caregivers
- Aug 3 Affordable Senior Housing Planned for Iwilei
- June 21 Senior Citizen Housing Option Offers Community Feel
- May 29 Some Patients Can Choose to be Hospitalized at Home
- May 23 Granny pods keep elderly relatives close to home
- April 9 Caregiving for Loved Ones the New “Normal” for Boomers
- Feb 24 A shift from Nursing Homes to Managed Care at Home
- Feb 10 Dignity and Sense of Control Keys to Quality of Life for Disabled Elderly
- Jan 12 Case Study: Georgia’s Money Follows the Person Demonstration
- Jan 1 Chronically Ill Strain Hawai‘i Health Care (Featuring Going Home Plus Participant Dean Ida)
2011
- Dec 27 Long-Term Services and Supports: Opportunities in the Affordable Care Act
- Oct 27 Medicaid’s Long-Term Care Users: Spending Patterns Across Institutional and Community-based Settings
- Oct 27 Examining Medicaid Managed Long-Term Service and Support Programs: Key Issues To Consider
- Oct 24 Still No Relief in Sight for Long-Term Needs
- Oct 14 Washington Health Policy Week in Review—Obama Administration Halts Implementation of Health Law’s Long-Term Care Program
- Sept 19 New State-Mandated Counseling for Seniors Irks Assisted-Living Industry
- Sept 19 AARP’s Long-term Care Scorecard
- Aug 26 At 88, A Chance to be Independent Again
- Aug 3 AARP study: Burden of long-term care needs of elderly straining families
- June 1 Money Follows the Person: Change in Participant Experience During the First Year of Community Living
- May 12 Isles’ Long-term Care Costs High, Survey Shows
- Mar 22 Gaps in health care limit options for older adults, MU expert says
- Feb 25 Credentials for Home Care Workers
- Feb 22 HHS News Release on New MFP States
- Jan 21 More on Moving
- Jan 12 Nursing Home Closures Clustered in Poor Minority Areas
- Jan 10 The Long-Term Care Workforce: Overview and Strategies to Adapt Supply to a Growing Demand
2010
- Dec 21 Baby Boomers Remodeling to Age in Place
- Dec 10 Profiles of State Innovation: Roadmap for Managing Long-Term Supports and Services
- Dec 8 A New Civil Right Looks For Stronger Enforcement
- Nov 3 Aging in Place: Do Older Americans Act Title III Services Reach Those Most Likely to Enter Nursing Homes?
- Nov 3 Achieving Better Chronic Care at Lower Costs Across the Health Care Continuum For Older Americans
- Oct 26 Money Follows the Person Annual Report 2009
- Oct 26 The Olmstead Act—10 Plus Years Later
- Sept 30 Trends in Disability, Community Living, and Caregiving: Analysis of Data from the National Long-Term Care Survey
- Aug 24—Hospitals Take Steps to Keep Patients Safe—And at Home
- July 1—Preparing for More Care of Elderly
- July 1—No Place Like Home
- June 25—Balance of State Long-term Care Systems Before the Implementation of the Money Follows the Person Demonstration
- June 16—Long-term Institutions: The Great Escape
- May 25—National movement focuses on choice, independence for elderly
- May 20—Hospital Readmissions Costly in California
- May 6—Portable Housing for Aging Relatives
- May 5—Parsing the New Law on Long-term Care
- Apr 26—Going Home Plus Presents at the 2010 Pacific Rim Conference— View the presentation
- Apr 22—Despite Federal Help, States Struggle To Move People Out Of Nursing Homes
- Apr 19—When Foreclosure Threatens Elder Care Homes
- Feb 26—Kupuna Care can reduce Medicaid bill
- Feb 18—California Discharge Planning Collaborative informs elders that they have a right to safely return home from a hospital
- Feb 2—Exploiting the Aged and Frail in Washington’s Adult Family Homes
2009
- Dec 11—One-Fourth of U.S. Adult Healthcare Costs Tied to Disabilities
- Sept 18—Helping Elderly Leave Nursing Homes for a Home
- Going Home Plus Project in August 2009 issue of Hawaii Medical Journal Learn more...
- “Building Adult Foster Care: What States Can Do” (AARP Report, September 2009)
- Money Follows the Person in the New York Times Read the Story
- Australia faces challenges in providing community-based options for persons with disabilities and elderly Learn more...
- New Assistant Secretary on Aging is passionate about keeping seniors in their homes and communities Learn more...
- The latest technologies such as remote patient monitoring can help older adults age in place. Learn more | Center on Technology and Aging
- Implications of State Program Features for Attaining MFP Transition Goals—Mathematica Policy Report
- A survey of of 29 states receiving MFP grants reveals early implementation successes and failures. Learn more...
- June 22—The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) today joined President
Obama’s commemoration of the 10th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s Olmstead decision by announcing rental assistance to 4,000
non-elderly families with disabilities, including 1,000 vouchers specifically targeted to those transitioning out of nursing homes and other facilities.
- Announcement on housing funding to help the persons on MFP: http://portal.hud.gov/portal/page/portal/HUD/press/press_releases_media_advisories/2009/HUDNo.09-095
- HUD Director-MFP Newsletter to the Public Housing Agencies http://www.hud.gov/offices/pih/programs/ph/am/newsletter/doc015.pdf
