Long Term Care

Long Term Services and Support

American Indian and Alaska Native Long Term Services and Support Conference 
The Administration on Aging (AoA), Indian Health Service (IHS), and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Long term services held an American Indian and Alaska Native Long Term Services and Support Conference in Denver, Colorado on March 21-23.  Long term services and supports are provided on many levels -  family oriented in-the-home assistance to facility-based assistance.  This year’s conference focused on four concentration track areas: 

• Home- and Community-based Services (HCBS)
  The HCBS track addressed  the services that support people who need help with basic and advanced activities of daily living to live in their own homes and in the community. These services include personal care, transportation, nutrition, and chore services as well as social and medical model elder day services. It also includes integrated supports and services such as Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE). Presentations in this track will share what is working in American Indian and Alaska Native communities.
• Facility-based Services
  This track addressed those services that include housing as an integrated part of the services. The types of facilities that fall into this category range from adult foster care to nursing home facilities. The Facility-based Services track presentations will address various types of facilities that are working in urban and rural American Indian and Alaska Native communities. It will also include topics related to getting facilities started in the community and subsequent steps, challenges, and available assistance.
• Hospice/Palliative Care
  Palliative care is specialized, whole-person care in which the main goal is relief of symptoms and suffering. Palliative care services can be provided at the same time as care that is focused on cure. Hospice care is intensive care with a total focus on comfort and relief of symptoms. This kind of care can be provided in the home, hospice center, skilled nursing facility, or hospital setting. This track addressed  the delivery of palliative care and hospice services in Indian Country in a variety of settings.
• Care Transitions
  Transition from one setting of care to another (for example, hospital to home or nursing facility) is a time of high risk for problems. The Care Transitions track included services and supports to assist in safe, seamless transition from one setting of care to another and will also highlight programs from CMS and AoA aimed at improving these transitions in care.

Presentations from the conference sessions are now available. See below Related Links

LONG TERM SERVICES AND SUPPORTS (LTSS) WEBINAR- 

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), Administration on Aging (AoA), and Indian Health Service (IHS) are conducting a series of webinars on Long Term Services and Supports (LTSS) as part of their joint technical assistance effort. The purpose of the webinars is to share knowledge and promising practices in the field and build an ongoing dialogue among tribal and IHS programs engaged in delivery of long term services and supports for AI/AN people. The audience includes Title VI grantees, IHS, tribal, and urban Indian health programs and community health representatives, and tribal program staff engaged in delivery of long term services and supports.

Schedule
Webinars will take place the fourth Wednesday of every month from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. ET.

September 26, 2012: Becoming a Federally Qualified Health Center: What, Why, and Can You Support It?

Becoming a federally qualified health center (FQHC) offers an opportunity to build the capacity of a tribe, provide an additional revenue stream, and offer needed Long Term Services and Supports (LTSS) for elders and persons with disabilities. To address the benefits and challenges of FQHCs, this webinar session will explore the potential of different kinds of FQHCs and how they relate to LTSS and American Indian and Alaska Native communities. It will identify key elements of these services and will describe how two programs successfully addressed the LTSS needs of their communities.

Presented By: David Larson, Director of Oneida Nation Home Health.

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