Grants & RFPs

 

Funding Priority 2

Advance realistic policy options to establish and finance a comprehensive continuum of care for seniors. Click here to learn more about the goals and strategies of this funding priority

 

Policy Action Research: Informing Advocacy to Improve Direct Care Jobs

Paraprofessional Healthcare Institute

 

$110,000

Awarded June 16, 2010

Duration: 12 months

Service Area: National

Program Staff: Kali Peterson

Strategy 2.2.2 - Improve the quantity, quality, and interdisciplinary approach to care delivery in the long-term care workforce, including both formal and informal caregivers

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) provides unprecedented policy opportunities for improving the long-term services and supports received by older adults, specifically by strengthening the direct-care workforce.  The Paraprofessional Healthcare Institute (PHI) will seize on these opportunities by producing a suite of inter-related products focused on workforce elements of the law.

 
 

Home and Community-Based Services (HCBS) Role in Keeping Medicare/Medi-Cal (Dual) Elders at Home Safely

UCLA Center for Health Policy Research

 

$190,333

Awarded June 16, 2010

Duration: 12 months

Service Area: California

Program Staff: Kali Peterson

Strategy 2.1.3 - Evaluate existing legislation and regulations authorizing and funding comprehensive senior care services and develop concrete proposals to improve such legislation and regulation

The UCLA Center for Health Policy Research (CHPR) will conduct a one-year qualitative project to understand how vulnerable older adults and their families construct community-based care networks in light of potential service reductions or eliminations as part of the California budget crisis.  Participants include dual eligible older adults using In-Home Support Services and a family member responsible for assisting the older adult in constructing their care network.

 
 

Ten Years After Olmstead: Problems, Progress, and Opportunities for America's Older Adults

National Senior Citizens Law Center

 

$30,000

Awarded April 17, 2010

Duration: 5.5 months

Service Area: National

Program Staff: Lisa Shugarman

Strategy 2.1.3 – Evaluate existing legislation and regulations authorizing and funding comprehensive senior care services and develop concrete proposals to improve such legislation and regulation

The National Senior Citizens Law Center will prepare a report reviewing how the federal and state governments have responded over the past 10 years to the 1999 Olmstead decision with a focus on whether older Americans are realistically able to receive necessary long-term care services in their homes and communities.

 
 

Advancing Long-Term Services and Supports Public Policy Consensus: Building on the Success of the Friday Morning Collaborative

National Council on Aging

 

$246,500

Awarded April 1, 2010

Duration: 12 months

Service Area: National

Program Staff: Kali Peterson

Strategy 2.3.1 – Convene high-level meetings of stakeholders

Aging and disability organizations have been working independently for years to change state and federal public policy in order to better support the needs of people requiring assistance with long-term services and supports (LTSS). In April 2009, The SCAN Foundation funded the National Council on Aging (NCOA) to convene and staff a unique collaborative of aging and disability organizations, and to build consensus around LTSS policy options to jointly promote to lawmakers.