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Survey Says: Efforts to Enable Americans to Age in Place are Expanding
The Washington Post (11/1/2014)
A 2013 survey by the National Association of Area Agencies on Aging found that more than 70 percent of local service providers now offer programs to help people find alternatives to nursing homes or other institutional care. That's up from less than a third in 2008, the survey said. Read more.

Can Reality Match Rhetoric?
NSCLC (10/2014)
Services should be based on the specific needs of an individual consumer and not on administrative convenience of the managed care organization, but are they? Click here to find out. And for more Policy Issue Briefs by the National Senior Citizens Law Center, click here.

20 Facts About Senior Isolation That Will Stun You
Senior Living Blog (10/17/2014)

The Office of Children and Family Services has announced a new phone number to reach a helpline for the Bureau of Adult Services. New Yorkers should dial 1-844-697-3505 to reach the state's Human Services Call Center (HSCC). Read more.

DSRIP Articles

Experts Weigh in on DSRIP Funding at NYC Health Summit
DotMed Daily News (10/3/2014)
A recent health summit on the Delivery System Reform Incentive Payment (DSRIP) program brought up a lot of questions, including the question of what will happen to workers displaced by a more efficient  system of care? Read more.

All 50 States on the $6.4 Billion DSRIP Model Webinar
Center for Health Care Strategies (12/11/2014)
NYS Department of Health staff covered the financing structure, project domains, measurement approach and evaluation criteria of New York's $6.4 Billion Delivery System Reform Incentive Payment (DSRIP) plan program in a webinar attended by representatives from every state. Everyone is hungry for information on the subject of reforming the health care delivery system, said Gregory S. Allen, Director of Policy, during the presentation. Click here for slides from the presentation.

In Light of DSRIP, Hospitals Consider their Collective Fate
Crain's New York Business (10/1/2014)                                       
To entice the health care industry to participate in the reform process, formally known as Delivery System Reform Incentive Payment program, or DSRIP, the state has a very large carrot. What else will they need? Read more.

Aging in the Community

Chickens Help Elderly Tackle Loneliness
The Telegraph (10/31/2041)
The idea came about in early 2012, when a man at a dementia care centre nearby kept telling staff he missed his 'girls'. The manager didn't know whom he meant - his wife, his daughters? Read more.