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Age Forward Together

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A United Vision of Aging for All of Indiana

By the year 2030, 71.5 million Americans will be over age 65. By 2025, nearly 19% of all Hoosiers will be age 65+ one in every five Hoosiers will be an older adult. The fastest-growing segment of the population is those age 85 and over. To address the demands and challenges of these changing demographics, Indiana must transform its long-term care system.

Age Forward Together is a vehicle for bringing public and private stakeholders together to build a more vibrant and inclusive future for all Hoosiers as they age. The Division of Aging leads Indiana’s efforts to develop and implement a comprehensive, leading-edge Multi-Sector Plan on Aging.

A multi-sector plan on aging is State-led, multi-year collaborative planning process that convenes cross-sector stakeholders
to address the needs of an aging population, including older adults and people with disabilities, guides the restructuring of state and local policy and programs, and creates systems-based solutions in healthcare, human services, housing, transportation, consumer affairs, employment and income security across the life continuum.

The framework’s goals align with broader state priorities for all Hoosiers, including:

  • Age-friendly economies -Build and sustain age-friendly state and local economies so that all ages and abilities can thrive where they choose
  • Reduce barriers - Reduce barriers to access for care, services, housing and other supports at all points across the lifespan
  • Reframe aging -Create stronger and more lasting bonds across all generations of Hoosier families and communities by reframing how we value aging as a state
  • Each journey supported - Build roadmaps for increased employment, volunteerism and engagement for Hoosiers across the lifespan so enduring paths are built with each journey supported.

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Home- and Community-Based Services report

Stakeholder workgroup

The stakeholder workgroup will offer feedback on long-term care transformation efforts. The DA will host a series of five meetings that will focus on core components in HCBS redesign. The series of meetings will engage a variety of persons receiving services, providers, provider associations and organizations representing persons receiving services to identify key opportunities for change in the HCBS delivery system.

Workgroup documents

Meetings

In the summer of 2019, the Division of Aging, the Office of Medicaid Policy and Planning and stakeholders from IHCA, etc., met to collaborate on key LTSS system integration and payment issues.

The collaborative goal was to recommend changes and reforms to current state LTSS infrastructure for promoting equity of access for all Medicaid-eligible individuals in need of LTSS across all care settings.

Five workgroups were formed around the following LTSS topics:

  1. Awareness, education, communication and data
  2. Capacity building
  3. Eligibility and prevention
  4. Options counseling, care planning and coordination of key entities
  5. Payment

These workgroups developed and produced several LTSS system recommendations over a three-month period (August – October, 2019). Recommendations were consolidated and organized by the common themes that recurred across a majority of the workgroups.

The workgroup met five times between September 2017 and February 2018.

Resources and data

Comments

For More information or if you have questions, please contact ageforward@fssa.in.gov