Archive September 2017
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n4a CEO Sandy Markwood Recognized as a Top Influencer in Aging
n4a CEO Sandy Markwood has been selected by Next Avenue as one its 2017 Top 50 Influencers in Aging for her commitment to making home and community-based aging services a national priority.
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New n4a Webinar Series to Explore How #AdvocacyWorks
After quick action from local and national advocates, Senators this week dropped their last-minute bid to repeal and replace the ACA and gut Medicaid.
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Guide to Benefits Now Available in Spanish and Chinese!
With Medicare Open Enrollment only a couple of weeks away, now is a great time to educate your clients about the other benefits programs available to them. To help your agency reach as many older adults as possible, n4a is proud to release new Spanish and Chinese translations of our popular brochure You Gave, Now Save: A Guide to Benefits for Seniors.
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Creating Age-Friendly Health Systems
The John A. Hartford Foundation and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement have partnered to launch the Creating Age-Friendly Health Systems initiative, which will develop and test models of care to measurably improve the quality of care older adults receive across health care settings.
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National Virtual Summit for Family Caregivers
To provide family caregivers the opportunity to learn from more than 50 national and international speakers, Dementia Friendly America (DFA) will be participating as an affiliate organization in a Virtual “Caregiver Smile Summit.”
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New Readiness Assessment Tool Helps Strengthen Health Care Partnerships
On its blog, n4a's Aging and Disability Business Institute highlights its recently launched online Readiness Assessment tool, a powerful interactive guide that can help your CBO pinpoint strengths and weaknesses across seven domains to work collaboratively with the health care sector.
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Advocates Have Only Days to Stop Devastating Medicaid Cuts
The Senate is poised to bring the latest threat to Medicaid—the Graham-Cassidy bill—to the Senate floor for a vote next week. Local aging advocates must act NOW to #SaveMedicaid.
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Celebrate National Falls Prevention Day with NADTC!
Today is National Falls Prevention Day! This year’s theme is “10 Years Standing Together to Prevent Falls.” Held each year on the first day of fall, Falls Prevention Day offers the opportunity to learn about, support and promote falls prevention strategies. The National Aging and Disability Transportation Center (NADTC), which n4a and Easterseals operate, is working to prevent falls by highlighting the importance of falls prevention within the context of transportation.
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A Guide to Volunteer Program Evaluation & Volunteer Satisfaction
With the end of the year fast approaching, now is a good time to think about evaluating your volunteer program. As many Area Agencies on Aging can attest, volunteers are invaluable and strategic resources that are key to the success of many AAA programs. In fact, a volunteer’s level of engagement and satisfaction should be viewed as vital to the strength of the agency’s program. Conducting an evaluation will help your agency better understand the roles volunteers plan and can help your AAA its story while building future support. If your AAA is thinking about revamping its volunteer program, evaluation and volunteer satisfaction are key!
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Dementia Friendly Leaders Support Families for World Alzheimer's Day
In recognition of World Alzheimer’s Day, Dementia Friendly America and Dementia Friends USA have joined a coalition of leading organizations to provide families, caregivers and individuals living with Alzheimer’s with mobile solutions to stay connected while living in their homes and communities.
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