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Earlier we blogged here about the long-term care financing forum at the University of Minnesota. One of the solutions put forward came from AARP. Here are highlights from Enid Kassner, director, Independent Living/Long-Term Care Public Policy Institute. Next we’ll share an approach from the American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging.
AARP’s Goal:
Create an affordable, consumer and caregiver-focused system providing coverage for, and access to, high quality long-term services and supports for independent living.
1. Promote - nationally and in the states - reform of delivery and financing for long-term services and supports.
2. REFOCUS reform debate on providing: long-term services and supports for independent living . . . rather than on “long-term care” or “Medicaid Reform.”
3. Include ALL populations, people with: developmental disabilities and physical disabilities . . . while improving services for seniors.
4. Defin “long-term services and support system” as FOUR separate, but related components:
1. Caregivers
2. Housing
3. Health Care
4. Long-Term and Community-Based Supportive Services
. . . . plus mechanisms to finance each component.
Norman DeLisle, MDRC
The National Association of Health Care Assistants- NAHCA- used to have a magazine for CNA’s called “CNA TODAY”- it ceased publication a couple years ago. NOW, they introduce a new magazine for ALL direct care workers in the nursing field, titled, “MY CAREGIVER”.
From the MY CAREGIVER web site:
My Caregiver is a quarterly magazine published by the Academy of Certified Health Professionals (ACHP) for and about health care assistants and their role in long term care. It is a special magazine, a publication virtually every person in the long term care industry will want to read.
With a circulation of 10,000, we reach nursing assistants, Directors of Nursing, facility Administrators, nursing home residents, and their families, product manufacturers, policy makers, and other health care associations.
The first issue of My Caregiver debuted March 2008. It evolved from the original CNA Today magazine to focus on health care assistants from diverse settings in long term care. The original magazine, CNA Today, launched June 2001 and was unveiled at the NAGNA National Convention.
Now My Caregiver will prove to be a remarkable resource for information on long term care for all who perform the role or duties of a nursing assistant, regardless of title.
The magazine is published quarterly and costs $15.00/year for non NAHCA members; $10.00/year for members.
NAHCA’s main web site is HERE.
Norman DeLisle, MDRC
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Report Shows High Rates of Injury, Inadequate Health Coverage May Result in Caregiver Shortage
As part of National Women’s Health Week, PHI’ Health Care for Health Care Workers Campaign will deliver a sobering report -– Invisible Care Gap: Caregivers without Health Coverage — on the health insurance status of our nation’s caregiving workforce, 90% of which is female. Based on the most recent data from the U.S. Bureau of the Census and Bureau of Labor Statistics, the report reveals that: