The annual Gerontological Society of America (GSA) Conference convenes high-level scholarship and the latest innovations in aging research disciplines. Join our experts in Seattle for #GSA2024, The Fortitude Factor, to hear the latest health research and strategies to advance healthy aging policies and programs.
Abt staff will present or contribute to the following sessions:
Wednesday, November 13, 2024 | 8:00 AM – 9:30 AM PST
Session: Aging in Place Papers
Supporting Aging in Place Through IWISH: Impacts from the Supportive Services Demonstration
Author(s): Ian Breunig, Ph.D.; Melissa Vandawalker, MPAff; Kimberly Groover, Ph.D.; Derek Hoodin, Ph.D.
Abt Presenter: Ian Breunig, Ph.D.
Thursday, November 14, 2024 | 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM PST
Session: End-of-Life Care
How Does the Use of High-Cost Treatments Impact Utilization of the Medicare Hospice Benefit?
Author(s): Michael R. Plotzke, Ph.D.; Thomas Christian, Ph.D.
Abt Presenter: Michael R. Plotzke, Ph.D.
Trends in Medicare Beneficiary Payments for Non-Hospice Services During Hospice Elections
Author(s): Thomas Christian, Ph.D., Michael R. Plotzke, Ph.D.
Abt Presenter: Thomas Christian, Ph.D.
Thursday, November 14, 2024 | 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM PST
Session: Aging and Climate Change: From Vulnerability to Action
Health Outcomes of Aging Individuals Exposed to Harmful Algal Blooms in South Florida
Author(s): Rebecca S. Koszalinski, Ph.D., MS, RN, FARN CRRN; Malcolm McFarland, Ph.D.; Michael Parsons, Ph.D.; John Reif, DVM, M.Sc; Adam Schaefer, MPH, MBA, PMP; Judyta Kociolek, MSN, RN
Friday, November 15, 2024 | 2:00 PM – 3:15 PM PST
Session: Aging in Place Posters
Supporting Aging in Place Through IWISH: Lessons From the Supportive Services Demonstration
Author(s): Melissa Vandawalker, MPAff; Elizabeth Giardino, MS; Meghan Hendricksen, Ph.D.; Ian Breunig, Ph.D.
Abt Presenter: Melissa Vandawalker, MPAff
Additional Resources
Assessing HUD’s IWISH Model for Aging in Place
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) designed the Integrated Wellness in Supportive Housing (IWISH) model to help elderly adults in HUD-assisted multifamily housing age in place. New staff at IWISH sites—full-time Resident Wellness…
Monitoring Medicare’s Home Health, Hospice, and Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility Benefits
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) home health, hospice, home infusion therapy, home IVIG, and IRF benefits require constant monitoring of payment policy—and revisions, as needed—to ensure they are working as intended. This enables…
Improving Patient Choice: Meaningful Measures of Home Health and Hospice Care Quality
To help patients and their families find high quality home health and hospice care, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) requires support for developing and maintaining patient assessment tools and quality measures for its Home Health and…
Helping Get the Kinks out of Home Health Prospective Payments
Changes in the complex prospective payment system (PPS) for home health agencies (HHAs) may have led to HHA behavior changes that thwarted the modifications’ goals. As a result, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) wanted an assessment of…
Health Effects from Exposure to Aerosolized Cyanobacterial Toxins
Toxic cyanobacteria blooms, or cyanobacterial harmful algal blooms (CyanoHABs), are becoming increasingly problematic as a result of climate change processes and reduction of oxygen in bodies of water around the globe; Florida has been significantly impacted.