But in Miami-Dade, Florida's most populous county, the Alliance for Aging, a nonprofit that helps older and disabled people apply for Medicaid, saw requests for help jump from 58 in March to 146 in April, said Lisa Mele, the organization's director of its Aging and Disability Resources Ce...
KanCare is administered by the Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services (KDADS) and the Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE). KanCare contracts with outside managed care organizations, all of which coordinate care for eligible recipients. What is a Medicaid Waiver? Medicaid...
Disease, Disability, and Age in Cognitively Intact Seniors: Results From the Canadian Study of Health and Aging Background. Many diseases have been identified as risk factors for disability in the elderly. This report contrasts disability in the old-old (85 years of ... D.,B.,Hogan,... ...
The division also contracts with area Agencies on Aging to provide an array of community services, including congregate living and in-home meals, transportation, legal services, insurance counseling, and employment programs. P&P: Why is Medicaid so important for people with disabilities? Auerbach: ...
Medicaid Home Care Benefits for the Aging As of March 2024, all 50 states and D.C. have at least one program that provides assistance to elderly individuals living outside of nursing homes. Be that at home, in adult day care, in adult foster care, or assisted living. Most states offer...
For aging adults and disabled individuals, living at home is an important part of their quality of life, and independence. Living at home independently can be overwhelming and present significant challenges to family members and friends. Staff Aid empowers seniors and the disabled to live independen...
This work was supported in part through a contract with the Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services (Contract 10-KU-002). Notes 1. At 1 NH, 2 discharge staff members were interviewed together. Thus, the total number of NH staff member participants is 11, while the total number...
history. It has only been over the past half century that the combination of an aging population and the modern entitlement system has pushed the federal government toward a financial crisis. Having shared all this depressing data, I’ll now close with a couple of observations. First, doing ...
The Medicaid Aging Waiver program (MAW) subsidizes the cost of long-term care (LTC) at home or in communities to satisfy older people’s increasing desire to age in place. The MAW program might be health improving for older people by allowing them to age at home. However, less quality ...
and developmental disabilities insured by Medicaid from 2010 to 2016 Jessica Williams, Inj Prev, 2023 Inequalities in provision of the Disability Living Allowance for Down syndrome Jill Ellis, Archives of Disease in Childhood, 2008 Prevalence of physical conditions and multimorbidity in a cohort of ...