Dual Eligible Special Needs Plans (D-SNP) State Medicaid Agency Contract Toolkit – Justice in Aging

Dual Eligible Special Needs Plans (D-SNP) State Medicaid Agency Contract Toolkit – Justice in Aging

Table of Contents This toolkit provides policy makers, including State Medicaid Agency staff, and advocates, with principles and corresponding template language to develop State Medicaid Agency Contracts (SMACs) that are responsive to the needs of the dually eligible populations they serve. Stakeholders are encouraged to use this tool to advance …

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Dual Eligible Special Needs Plans (D-SNP) State Medicaid Agency Contract Toolkit – Justice in Aging

Dual Eligible Special Needs Plans (D-SNP) State Medicaid Agency Contract Toolkit – Justice in Aging

This toolkit provides policy makers, including State Medicaid Agency staff, and advocates, with principles and corresponding template language to develop State Medicaid Agency Contracts (SMACs) that are responsive to the needs of the dually eligible populations they serve. Stakeholders are encouraged to use this tool to advance their priorities by …

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Fight Aging! Newsletter, May 5th 2025

Fight Aging! Newsletter, May 5th 2025

Fight Aging! publishes news and commentary relevant to the goal of ending all age-related disease, to be achieved by bringing the mechanisms of aging under the control of modern medicine. This weekly newsletter is sent to thousands of interested subscribers. To subscribe or unsubscribe from the newsletter, please visit: …

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Fear of Zombie Chickens and New Meds

Fear of Zombie Chickens and New Meds

I was terrified of chickens as child. Before you judge me, I can assure you I came by it honestly and through no fault of my own. Knowledge evolves, some people not so much. Those who come after us will probably consider our knowledge primitive and a joke. So it’s …

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How to Manage Chronic Conditions for Healthy Aging

How to Manage Chronic Conditions for Healthy Aging

This is the fourth in a series of posts covering the Healthy Aging Checklist. Again, the Healthy Aging Checklist summarizes the six fundamental activities I recommend when asked what to do to maintain the best possible health while aging. They are: In this post, I’ll cover the fourth item: learning to …

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Immigration Enforcement in Nursing Facilities, Adult Day Centers, and Other Settings for Older Adults – Justice in Aging

Immigration Enforcement in Nursing Facilities, Adult Day Centers, and Other Settings for Older Adults – Justice in Aging

1. Introduction The federal government in recent months has adopted an increasingly aggressive posture on deportation. The threat of deportation is invoked particularly against non-citizen immigrants, but also to persons who have had protected legal status—for example, Venezuelans unable to return safely to their country—and (in much less common situations) …

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