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8:30 - 9:00 am | Registration
Continental breakfast will be available. |
9:00 - 9:10 am | Opening: Communities and the “Age Wave”
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9:10 - 9:40 am | Three Communities: What Are the Driving Factors? This case study-style discussion will focus in on how the selected communities are actively working to partner with health care providers who are serving Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries, and how the community-based organizations (CBOs) they represent and others they interact with are expanding their capacity to provide LTSS to rising numbers of older adults living in the area.
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9:40 - 9:55 am | Q & A
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9:55 - 10:40 am | The Role of the Federal Government in Supporting Community-Anchored Care
ACL Principal Deputy Administrator Mary Lazare, and senior staff members Marisa Scala-Foley and Vicki Gottlich will respond to what communities discussed in the previous panel. They will also broadly review major initiatives at ACL with regard to the Business Acumen initiative, current and pending Learning Collaboratives, population health persepctives, HCBS service delivery design and more. Mike Nardone, Director of Disabled and Elderly Health Programs at CMS, will be providing key perspectives on advances and trends in home and community-based services delivery. |
10:40 - 10:55 am | Q & A
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10:55 - 11:10 am | Break
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11:10 - 11:55 am | Panel Discussion: Drilling Down
Discussion will be led by Sandy Markwood, CEO of the National Association of Area Agencies on Aging; Brenda Schmitthenner, Program Officer and Senior Director, Gary and Mary West Foundation; Jean Accius, Vice President, Independent Living, AARP. What are some of the important and common threads in the work that the 3 communities highlighted? What are other communities doing? Possible discussion points include:
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11:55 - 12:10 pm | Break
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12:10 - 12:45 pm | Financing Projections by Communities and Getting a Handle on Services and Costs: How You Can Approach This as a Community Planning Initiative
Antonia Bernhardt (Dept. of Veterans Affairs) and Jim Lee (Altarum) will discuss how communities can plan for and develop cost projections for community-anchored eldercare systems. The speakers will walk attendees through how to approach financial planning for a potential eldercare community system in their area, using as a basis the financial simulation model published in the Milbank Quarterly in 2016. Moderated by Anne Montgomery, Altarum. |
12:45 - 1:20 pm | Where Can Communities Go To Find Some Money to Get Started?
Community investment experts: Robert Jenkens, National Cooperative Bank; Sandy Atkins, Partners in Care Foundation; Karen Kali, National Community Reinvestment Coalition; and Abigail Suarez, Capital Impact Partners. How can communities work with local leaders and investors, health care and social services providers, and other interested experts and advocates, to raise start-up funds for community-anchored eldercare systems? What are potential sources of creative financing, i.e., Pay for Success, social impact bonds and grants? |
1:20 - 1:30 pm | Leveraging Action
How can we link community desires and goals to create better and more reliable eldercare systems in a way that complements ongoing adapatations of key federal programs, such as Medicare, Medicaid and the Older Americans Act? Sarah Slocum, Altarum. |