Resources For Integrated Care

Providing self-management support (SMS) is a key activity for health care providers seeking to deliver integrated, high quality health care. For many providers, supporting self-management involves a paradigm shift away from the traditional medical model towards a shared decision-making model for encounters with clients. It means staff and organizations must structure and deliver care in ways that honors individuals’ perspectives on their health care, treatment, and relationships with providers. These podcasts, excerpted from a July 2017 webinar, focus on assessing an organization’s ability to support client self-management, highlighting the Self-Management Support Organizational Assessment Tool (SMS OAT).

Providing self-management support (SMS) is a key activity for health care providers seeking to deliver integrated, high quality health care. For many providers, supporting self-management involves a paradigm shift away from the traditional medical model towards a shared decision-making model for encounters with clients. It means staff and organizations must structure and deliver care in ways that honors individuals’ perspectives on their health care, treatment, and relationships with providers. These podcasts, excerpted from a July 2017 webinar, focus on assessing an organization’s ability to support client self-management, highlighting the Self-Management Support Organizational Assessment Tool (SMS OAT).

Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a progressive degenerative disorder of the central nervous system mainly affecting the motor system or a person’s movement. Early in the course of the disease, the most obvious symptoms are movement related; these include shaking, rigidity, slowness of movement, difficulty walking and gait. Later, thinking and behavioral problems may arise, with dementia commonly occurring in the advanced stages of the disease, often with Lewy Bodies, and depression being the most common psychiatric symptom. Other symptoms may include sensory, sleep and emotional problems. The incidence and prevalence of PD increase with age, and data suggests that 3% of Medicare-Medicaid enrollees have Parkinson’s disease.1 This webinar will emphasize the recognition of PD, the treatment options, the importance of an interdisciplinary care team in the treatment of PD, and the impact of the illness on affected older adults, including Medicare-Medicaid enrollees, and their caregivers.

Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a progressive degenerative disorder of the central nervous system mainly affecting the motor system or a person’s movement. Early in the course of the disease, the most obvious symptoms are movement related; these include shaking, rigidity, slowness of movement, difficulty walking and gait. Later, thinking and behavioral problems may arise, with dementia commonly occurring in the advanced stages of the disease, often with Lewy Bodies, and depression being the most common psychiatric symptom. Other symptoms may include sensory, sleep and emotional problems. The incidence and prevalence of PD increase with age, and data suggests that 3% of Medicare-Medicaid enrollees have Parkinson’s disease.1 This webinar will emphasize the recognition of PD, the treatment options, the importance of an interdisciplinary care team in the treatment of PD, and the impact of the illness on affected older adults, including Medicare-Medicaid enrollees, and their caregivers.

Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a progressive degenerative disorder of the central nervous system mainly affecting the motor system or a person’s movement. Early in the course of the disease, the most obvious symptoms are movement related; these include shaking, rigidity, slowness of movement, difficulty walking and gait. Later, thinking and behavioral problems may arise, with dementia commonly occurring in the advanced stages of the disease, often with Lewy Bodies, and depression being the most common psychiatric symptom. Other symptoms may include sensory, sleep and emotional problems. The incidence and prevalence of PD increase with age, and data suggests that 3% of Medicare-Medicaid enrollees have Parkinson’s disease.1 This webinar will emphasize the recognition of PD, the treatment options, the importance of an interdisciplinary care team in the treatment of PD, and the impact of the illness on affected older adults, including Medicare-Medicaid enrollees, and their caregivers.

Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a progressive degenerative disorder of the central nervous system mainly affecting the motor system or a person’s movement. Early in the course of the disease, the most obvious symptoms are movement related; these include shaking, rigidity, slowness of movement, difficulty walking and gait. Later, thinking and behavioral problems may arise, with dementia commonly occurring in the advanced stages of the disease, often with Lewy Bodies, and depression being the most common psychiatric symptom. Other symptoms may include sensory, sleep and emotional problems. The incidence and prevalence of PD increase with age, and data suggests that 3% of Medicare-Medicaid enrollees have Parkinson’s disease.1 This webinar will emphasize the recognition of PD, the treatment options, the importance of an interdisciplinary care team in the treatment of PD, and the impact of the illness on affected older adults, including Medicare-Medicaid enrollees, and their caregivers.

In this podcast, Michelle Bentzien-Purrington, Vice President of Managed Long Term Services and Supports and MMP for Molina Healthcare, discusses promoting independence through family caregiver supports and implementing promising practices to better support family caregivers.

In this podcast, Susan Reinhard, Lynn Feinberg, and Wendy Fox-Grage from AARP Public Policy Institute, provide an overview of their report on family caregivers including promising practices demonstrating effective family caregiver supports for adults enrolled in Medicaid MLTSS programs and for those older adults who are Medicare-Medicaid enrollees.

These podcasts are compiled from a webinar presented on April 6, 2017. The speakers identify key distinguishing diagnostic features of the more common atypical dementias, key strategies for preventing or reducing difficult behaviors associated with Frontotemporal dementia or Lewy Body Dementia, and discuss the impact of these atypical dementias on adults and their families and how to address the resultant care challenges.

These podcasts are compiled from a webinar presented on April 6, 2017. The speakers identify key distinguishing diagnostic features of the more common atypical dementias, key strategies for preventing or reducing difficult behaviors associated with Frontotemporal dementia or Lewy Body Dementia, and discuss the impact of these atypical dementias on adults and their families and how to address the resultant care challenges.