082609_Presentation
Table of Contents
- IL-Net Presents Federal Opportunities to Expand Community Living in Your State
- Today's Discussion
- Money Follows the Person
- Who will Transition?
- Money Follows the Person Expectations
- Money Follows the Person Expectations, cont'd 2
- Early Lessons Learned
- Early Lessons Learned, cont'd 2
- Questions & Answers
- Administration on Aging
- Community Living Program
- Hoping to Achieve
- Connecting the Dots
- Questions & Answers
- Veterans Administration (VA)
- VA Long-Term Services
- Increased Need
- Existing Home & Community-Based Programs
- New Program - Veterans-Directed Home and Community-Based Services
- What Type of Services?
- Referrals
- Implications for You
- Questions & Answers
- Resources
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Hoping to Achieve
- Flexible dollars to ensure that services can be tailored to individualized needs of consumers and family caregivers, rather than being tied to particular service or set of services
- Criteria to target individuals to ensure the program actually serves those who are most at risk of nursing home placement and spend down to Medicaid
- Offering options to provide full choice and control of received services
- Strategies that complement and support rather than supplant the on-going efforts of family members