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This brief describes how a person’s overall health is related to their oral health and a number of options states have for expanding access to oral health.

Source: Administration for Community Living, 2016
https://acl.gov/aging-and-disability-in-america/issue-briefings

The Optimizing Health and Functional Status as We Age Roundtable was held on April 14, 2023, in Rockville, Maryland. Sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), the Roundtable’s purpose was to identify how AHRQ can have meaningful impact with respect to research, dissemination, and implementation of evidence to improve the organization and delivery of healthcare with the goal of optimizing the health, functional status, and well-being of the U.S. population as it ages.

The Optimizing Health and Functional Status as We Age Roundtable was held on April 14, 2023, in Rockville, Maryland. Sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), the Roundtable’s purpose was to identify how AHRQ can have meaningful impact with respect to research, dissemination, and implementation of evidence to improve the organization and delivery of healthcare with the goal of optimizing the health, functional status, and well-being of the U.S. population as it ages.

The National Rural Age-Friendly Initiative is a joint effort between the National Rural Health Association (NRHA) and The John A. Hartford Foundation (JAHF) to develop resources, partnerships, and strategies to build age-friendly care for the one in five older adults living in rural geographies. NRHA aims to achieve these goals through four approaches: convenings, communications, educational activities, and community health worker trainings.

Aging in Rural Minnesota: A comparative analysis of data and policy impacting aging in Minnesota rural and urban regions. Discover the key challenges and opportunities in supporting older adults in rural Minnesota. This insightful webinar explores limited transportation, social isolation, and inadequate healthcare access, presenting targeted interventions and policy recommendations. This website has a link to the September 2024 report and a link to the webinar recorded December 2, 2024. Slides are available for download.

This guide serves as an essential resource for everyone working and volunteering in the US aging services sector on how to deliver person-centered, trauma-informed care to Holocaust survivors, older adults with a history of trauma, and family caregivers. It was created through a grant from the US Administration for Community Living.

Source: Center on Holocaust Survivor Care and Institute on Aging and Trauma, Jewish Federations of North America, 2023
https://www.jewishfederations.org/

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has announced a new national action framework to advance medical-dental integration (MDI) in the US. We know that good oral health is essential to promote overall health, yet medical and dental care continue to operate in silos. This framework will pave the way for providers to improve MDI across health care and public health settings and support whole-person integrated care. 

Background

In 2019, the American Interprofessional Health Collaborative (AIHC) and the National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education (National Center) charged the Interprofessional Education Organizational Models Task Force to study the organizational models and structures of US IPE programs using a mixed methodology of quantitative survey and qualitative analysis. 

A growing body of evidence about the effectiveness of system-wide initiatives reducing the incidence of hospital acquired pneumonia (HAP) underscores how oral hygiene prevention protocols are effective. Yet there is no national standardized quality measure that requires monitoring and reporting about the incidence and prevalence of HAP.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has taken an important step toward improving oral health outcomes that are linked to overall health. On November 3, CMS announced that Medicare will begin making payment in 2023 for dental services necessary to identify and eliminate oral and dental infections prior to, and contemporaneously with, organ transplant, cardiac valve replacement, and valvuloplasty procedures.