Conference Program

12:30–2:00 PM
12:30–2:00 PM
Highlighted Session
MO107 Aging and Disability Resource Centers:
Promising Practices Across the Country
12:30 PM | Roosevelt 3 (East Tower, Bronze Level)
Sponsored by AARP.
Finding services and supports for people with self-care needs
can be unnerving. However, states are transforming their
fragmented LTSS access functions into single statewide Aging
and Disability Resource Center/No Wrong Door systems to
work better for consumers and their families. The AARP
Scorecard project, funded by The SCAN Foundation and the
Commonwealth Fund and in collaboration with the U.S. Administration
for Community Living, researched promising practices
to speed up the pace of change.
Presenters: Jean Accius, PhD, Vice President, Long-Term Services
and Supports Group, AARP Public Policy Institute; Lisa Alecxih,
MPA, Senior Vice President and Director, Lewin Center for Aging &
Disability Policy, The Lewin Group; Joseph Lugo, MA, Aging
Services Specialist, Administration for Community Living; Katie
Roeper, Assistant Commissioner, Virginia Department for Aging
and Rehabilitative Services.
12:30–2:00 PM | 90-Minute Workshops
Aging in Community
MO109 Advancing Trauma-Informed Care:
Applying Early Findings From ACL/AoA’s
Holocaust Survivor Program
12:30 PM | Acapulco (West Tower, Gold Level)
Presenters will share examples of new and innovative partnerships
and programs that are helping to expand the range of culturally
competent and trauma-informed service offerings available to
Holocaust survivors, and will offer strategies for how these efforts
can be replicated in the broader aging services network.
Presenters: Leah Bergen, Project Manager, The Jewish Federations
of North America; Yuliya Gaydayenko, MA, LMSW, Senior Director
of Older Adult Services, Jewish Family Service of Metropolitan
Detroit; June Gutterman, EdD, CEO, Jewish Family Services of
Columbus, Ohio; Greg Link, MA, Director, Office of Supportive and
Caregiver Services, U.S. Administration for Community Living.
MO111 HECM and Housing: An Aging-in-Place
Tool With Multiple Applications
12:30 PM | San Francisco (West Tower, Gold Level)
The home equity conversion mortgage (HCEM) is a widely
misunderstood and complex product that has been underutilized
by the senior population because of the complexity and past
abuses. Recent changes attempt to bring the product more
mainstream, and recent research indicates that a HECM added to
a retirement plan can increase the likelihood of NOT outliving
retirement funds. Often considered a product of last resort, this
perception is changing due to recent changes, research and media.
Presenters: Richard Glover, Director Reverse Mortgage Division;
John Pollitt, HECM Specialist; both of American Fidelity Mortgage
Services, Inc.
MO113 Leave Me Alone: The Live-Alone Projects
12:30 PM | Michigan 2 (East Tower, Bronze Level)
The numbers of people who live alone in the community and have
Alzheimer’s disease and related disorders (ADRD) are growing at
staggering rates. Services for this population are scarce and
interventions are often unsuccessful. This workshop will report on
three projects in California that identify, assess and connect
people living alone with ADRD to programs and services to help
them continue to live at home independently and safely.
Presenters: Stefanie Bonigut, MSW, Family Care Specialist,
Alzheimer’s Association; Brooke Hollister, PhD, Assistant Adjunct
Professor, Institute for Health & Aging, University of California,
San Francisco; Rachel Kast, MSW, Dementia Care Specialist,
Alzheimer’s Association; Cathleen Ladd, Vice President, Programs,
Alzheimer’s Greater Los Angeles.
MO115 National, State and Local Efforts
to Reduce Falls Among Older Adults
12:30 PM | Randolph 1 (East Tower, Bronze Level)
The National Council on Aging’s National Falls Prevention
Resource Center and the Administration for Community Living
will provide updates on national efforts to prevent falls among
older adults, including grants to states and Tribal organizations
to implement evidence-based falls prevention programs.
Presenters will highlight best practices, lessons learned, outcomes
and sustainability strategies.
Presenters: Kathleen Cameron, MPH, Senior Director, Center for
Healthy Aging, National Council on Aging; Mary Hertel, Healthy
Aging Programs Consultant, Minnesota Board on Aging; Carlene
Russell, MS, RDN, LDN, Nutrition Program Director, Iowa Department
on Aging; Shannon Skowronski, MPH, MSW, Aging Services
Program Specialist, U.S. Administration for Community Living.
Symposium
MO117 The Little Home That Could: A Traditional
Home Person-Centered Success Story
12:30 PM | Columbus KL (East Tower, Gold Level)
Since 2013, the state of Kansas has been incentivizing personcentered
care through a pay-for-performance program entitled
PEAK (Promoting Excellent Alternatives in Kansas nursing
homes). This program provides structure and a shared definition
as well as a rigorous evaluation system. The majority of early
adopters have been nonprofit and CCRCs but for one exception,
Medicalodges Columbus. Learn how this very traditional
for-profit, corporate-operated home has broken the mold with
some dramatic successes.
Presenters: Gayle Doll, PhD, Associate Professor, Kansas State
University Center on Aging; Amy Higgins, RN, Administrator,
Medicalodges Columbus; Travis McBride, Regional Vice President,
Medicalodges, Inc.; Judith Poey, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Center on
Aging, Kansas State University.
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