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APPENDIX B. DATA COLLECTION DOCUMENTS

Improving Care for Populations Disproportionally Affected by Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias. Appendix B. Data Collection Documents

Memorandum to Task Force Members Describing Data Collection Process August 31, 2012 Dear All,
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Recommendations that are Being Addressed by

Improving Care for Populations Disproportionally Affected by Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias. Recommendations that are Being Addressed by Existing Work

For the following recommendations, the Task Force identified work that is currently underway that will address the issue. Stakeholders say that providers of health and long-term services and supports (LTSS) need more access to dementia awareness and training activities. Stakeholders recommend that these activities be developed, promoted, and
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Recommendations for Further Exploration

Improving Care for Populations Disproportionally Affected by Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias. Recommendations for Further Exploration

The following ten recommendations were identified by the Task Force as having the potential to be addressed through federal activities, pending the availability of resources. Stakeholders assert that the National Plan needs to address and incorporate strategies that are culturally and linguistically appropriate. For example, detection tools
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Improving Care for Populations Disproportionally

Improving Care for Populations Disproportionally Affected by Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias

The National Plan to Address Alzheimer’s Disease requires the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE) and the Administration for Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (AIDD) within the Administration for Community Living (ACL) to establish a task force to create a plan of action to address the needs of specific
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APPENDIX E. PENNSYLVANIA'S ADULT COMMUNITY

Quality in Managed Long-Term Services and Supports Programs. Appendix E. Pennsylvania's Adult Community Autism Program

  Element     Description   MLTSS Program Adult Community Autism Program (ACAP) Lead Agency
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Quality in Managed Long-Term Services and

Quality in Managed Long-Term Services and Supports Programs

This report explores how several states have designed their quality monitoring and improvement programs for managed long-term services and supports (MLTSS). The authors focus on the early adopters of MLTSS as well as those programs that are presented considered "established". The findings demonstrate how states take somewhat different approaches
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4.3. Protecting Participants from Coercion and

Feasibility of Expanding Self-Directed Services to People with Serious Mental Illness. 4.3. Protecting Participants from Coercion and Victimization

A key purpose of the SDC approach is to increase consumers' control of decisions relating to their care, and thereby increase their independence and free them from coercion in mental health treatment.
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4.1. Ensuring that Participation is Equitable

Feasibility of Expanding Self-Directed Services to People with Serious Mental Illness. 4.1. Ensuring that Participation is Equitable

SDC models automatically place consumers of mental health services "in the driver's seat" 2 by making them the primary decision-makers in choosing services and providers and by giving them authority over an individual budget. Although this structure supports consumers' autonomy and self-direction, it also demands greater consumer involvement in
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C. Variation in Program Implementation

Non-Elderly Disabled Category 2 Housing Choice Voucher Program: An Implementation and Impact Analysis. C. Variation in Program Implementation

Although the NOFA established some national standards for the NED2 program, sites were given broad flexibility in implementing these standards, resulting in diverse implementation protocols across communities.
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Outreach to Minority Communities

Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Alzheimer's Disease: A Literature Review. Outreach to Minority Communities

Another approach to addressing disparities involves targeting programs and outreach to minority populations. For example, the Alzheimer's Disease Demonstration Grants to States program provided demonstration grants to Florida, Kentucky, and the District of Columbia, that focused on African Americans (Wiener & Mitchell, 2007). For example, in t
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Cultural Competence

Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Alzheimer's Disease: A Literature Review. Cultural Competence

Cultural competency is especially important in the health care setting, where barriers to communication and access to quality care can result in delayed diagnosis, inappropriate treatment, or worse. Cultural competence involves both awareness and knowledge about other cultures and skill in relating to people of other cultures. Cultural competence
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INTERVENTIONS TO REDUCE RACIAL AND ETHNIC

Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Alzheimer's Disease: A Literature Review. Interventions to Reduce Racial and Ethnic Disparities

Although there is extensive evidence documenting disparities among different racial and ethnic groups with Alzheimer's disease, there are few studies evaluating interventions to address disparities in this population. Almost all interventions designed to explicitly address racial and ethnic disparities focus on cultural competency on the part of t
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E. Employment Interventions for Workers with

Improving Employment Outcomes for People with Psychiatric Disorders and Other Disabilities. E. Employment Interventions for Workers with Serious Mental Illness At-Risk of Job Loss

In this section, we summarize findings on the current state of knowledge on interventions to improve employment outcomes among workers with mental illness at risk of job loss. Following a framework established by Nieuwenhuijsen et al. (2008) and Krupa (2007), our review divides interventions into two main groups: individual or worker level interve
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4.4. Sustaining and Expanding Innovative Programs

Medicaid and Permanent Supportive Housing for Chronically Homeless Individuals: Emerging Practices From the Field. 4.4. Sustaining and Expanding Innovative Programs: Addressing Challenges for Health Centers and Their Partners

As part of this case study project, we visited many Health Centers, including some that began as Health Care for the Homeless programs. Among the Health Centers that have been most engaged in serving people experiencing chronic homelessness and delivering services in PSH, innovative programs and integrated services have often been launched with su
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4.3. Health Centers, Chronically Homeless People

Medicaid and Permanent Supportive Housing for Chronically Homeless Individuals: Emerging Practices From the Field. 4.3. Health Centers, Chronically Homeless People, and Permanent Supportive Housing

In recent years a growing number of Health Care for the Homeless programs and a small number of other Health Centers have developed programs designed to engage and provide ongoing health care and supportive services linked to permanent housing for people with histories of chronic homelessness. To implement these programs, Health Centers work in co
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5. Characterizing the MCC Literature on

Understanding the High Prevalence of Low-Prevalence Chronic Disease Combinations: Databases and Methods for Research. 5. Characterizing the MCC Literature on Prevalence and Patterns of Chronic Disease Combinations (Study Question #1)

What are the findings from MCC research related to prevalence and patterns of chronic disease combinations, health care utilization and cost, with particular attention to addressing less prevalent combinations of chronic conditions (i.e., the long tail)?
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F. Discussion

CHIPRA Mandated Evaluation of Express Lane Eligibility: First Year Findings. F. Discussion

Our impact analysis finds significant evidence that ELE implementation increased Medicaid enrollment. Across a series of model specifications, estimated impacts of ELE were consistently positive, ranging between 4.0 and 7.3 percent, with most estimates statistically significant at the 5 percent level. Overall, these estimates had a central tendenc
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J. Program Implementation and Progress

Analysis of Integrated HIV Housing and Care Services. J. Program Implementation and Progress

I’d like to wrap up this discussion by learning more about your program’s successes and challenges. In general, how is the partnership with the River Region Human Services going? What aspects of the partnership have been the most successful? What challenges, if any, have you encountered as part of your collaboration on this IHHP program
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I. Program Implementation and Progress

Analysis of Integrated HIV Housing and Care Services. I. Program Implementation and Progress

I’d like to wrap up this discussion by learning more about your program’s successes and challenges. In general, how is IHHP grant program going? What aspects of the program have been the most successful? What challenges, if any, have you encountered in implementing your program? FOLLOW UP:
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J. Program Implementation and Progress

Analysis of Integrated HIV Housing and Care Services. J. Program Implementation and Progress

I’d like to wrap up this discussion by learning more about your program’s successes and challenges. In general, how is IHHP grant program going? What aspects of the program have been the most successful? What challenges, if any, have you encountered in implementing your program? FOLLOW UP:

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