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Success Stories February 2, 2018 The Power of Three: Collaboration Can Help Stroke Survivors Return to Independence Although stroke-related deaths have decreased substantially in the last few decades, research suggests that acute ischemic stroke hospitalizatio... Read More
Success Stories January 19, 2018 Local CBO Learns to Balance its Mission with Business Acumen The San Francisco Institute on Aging (IOA) began in 1985 as a nonprofit providing multiple services to older adults and is best known for its Fr... Read More
Success Stories January 19, 2018 A Right-Minded Partnership Focuses on Healing in Community This Aging and Disability Business Institute article highlights the enduring relationship between Senior’s Resource Center (SRC) and the Luthera... Read More
Build Your Network, Get Started, Understand the Landscape January 9, 2018 NCOA’s Roadmap to Community Integrated Health Care The National Council on Aging’s (NCOA) Center for Healthy Aging is honored to serve as a partner with n4a’s Aging & Disability Business Ins... Read More
Get Started November 16, 2017 Transportation Undergirds Health Care In any given year, 3.6 million individuals miss or delay medical appointments due to a lack of available and affordable transportation.[i] For i... Read More
Success Stories October 13, 2017 Post-Hospital Respite Program Gives Frail Homeless Elders a Safe Place to Recover This Aging and Disability Business Institute article features the inspiring story of Bay Area Community Services (BACS), a community-based organ... Read More
Understand the Landscape October 12, 2017 Five Key Factors for Successful Health Care & CBO Partnerships The increasing prevalence of value-based arrangements places providers at risk for not only cost, but also quality and outcomes. This movement ... Read More
Get Started September 27, 2017 Business Institute and Collaborative Consulting Launch New Readiness Assessment Tool for CBOs TO ACCESS THE READINESS ASSESSMENT, CLICK HERE   In our work over the past several years, we have experienced first-hand the potential th... Read More
Success Stories September 26, 2017 University Group Fosters Integrated Care Collaborations in New Hampshire University of New Hampshire’s Institute on Disability (IOD) was invited by the National Association of Area Agencies on Aging (n4a) and the Admi... Read More
Success Stories September 25, 2017 Ability360: Fostering Growth, While Preserving a Service Culture of Dignity and Respect For over 30 years, Ability360, Arizona\'s largest independent living center, based out of Phoenix, has offered and promoted programs designed to... Read More
Success Stories September 25, 2017 A Meals Program in Connecticut Keeps Cardiac Patients at Home and Out of the Hospital Senior Nutrition Services, a division of New Opportunities, Inc., in Waterbury, Connecticut, is a meals and nutrition services provider that is ... Read More
Success Stories September 22, 2017 Ohio AAA Reveals Lessons Learned From Decades of Managed Care Direction Home Akron Canton Area Agency on Aging & Disabilities, a private, nonprofit Area Agency on Aging (AAA) serving northeastern Ohio, ... Read More
Get Started September 8, 2017 Three Questions to Ask Yourself to Drive Improvement We live in a data-driven age. It is estimated today that the volume of information available to humans doubles every twelve months. Technology m... Read More
Build Your Network, Understand the Landscape August 24, 2017 Oklahoma Collaborators Point to Strategic Positioning     Synergies and collaborations between disability and aging services providers are a natural fit in an integrated health care la... Read More
Success Stories August 11, 2017 VAAACares Receives 2017 The John A. Hartford Foundation Business Innovation Award Congratulations to VAAACares for receiving The John A. Hartford Foundation Business Innovation Award! The Business Innovation Award was establi... Read More
Success Stories August 11, 2017 ACL Business Acumen Case Study: Winning the Contract: New Revenue Stream for Community Organizations The Administration for Community Living (ACL) has released new resources from the Business Acumen Initiative to provide background on this work... Read More
Success Stories August 11, 2017 ACL Business Acumen Case Study: Building the Western New York Integrated Care Collaborative The Administration for Community Living (ACL) has released new resources from the Business Acumen Initiative to provide background on this work... Read More
Success Stories August 11, 2017 Business Acumen Case Study: Florida Network Evolves from Regional Collaborative to Statewide Network The Administration for Community Living (ACL) has released new resources from the Business Acumen Initiative to provide background on this work... Read More
Get Started July 13, 2017 Aging and Disability Business Institute Launches Survey to Take the Pulse of CBO-Health Care Partnerships Aging and disability community-based organizations (CBOs)* across the country are partnering with health care payers and providers at an ever-in... Read More
Define Your Value June 30, 2017 Constructing a Value Proposition for Your Evidence-Based Programs   Those of us who have invested countless hours and extensive resources into the adoption and implementation of evidence-based programs (E... Read More
Understand the Landscape June 13, 2017 Getting Ready for the Second Wave of the Baby Boom: How CBOs can work with Medicare Advantage plans to serve Trailing-Edge Boomers   As leaders of aging and disability organizations, you are well aware of a fact that many other industries have only recently become awar... Read More
Define Your Value, Get Started May 10, 2017 To Measure or Not to Measure: Tracking Evidence-Based Program Outcomes: You Do Not Need To Reinvent the Wheel *Kate Lorig, Dr. P.H., is the Director of the Stanford Patient Education Research Center and Professor of Medicine in the Stanford School of Med... Read More
Get Started April 26, 2017 The John A. Hartford Foundation Business Innovation Award: Recognizing Powerful Partnerships Between Community-Based Organizations and the Health Care Sector  While the Hollywood awards season wrapped up a few months ago, the Aging and Disability Business Institute is revving up for its yearly recogni... Read More
Get Started, Understand the Landscape April 20, 2017 GWEPs & Community-Based Programs: Improving the Quality of Care for Older Adults One of my passions is finding new ways to develop a health care workforce that is better prepared to care for older adults. That is why I was de... Read More
Success Stories April 10, 2017 The SCAN Foundation Linkage Lab: St.Paul’s Senior Services Part of a six-part series of Linkage Lab case studies developed by The SCAN Foundation, this Success Story showcases how St. Paul’s Senior Servi... Read More