Long-Term Services and Supports

Navigating the Future of Care for Older Adults

How can we provide high-quality care for a growing population of older Americans and people with disabilities? In addition to concerns over increased demand, affordability, caregiver workforce shortages, fragmented services, and a lack of care coordination pose significant challenges. Furthermore, the critical considerations of human dignity and choice emphasize the need to make the residential long-term care sector more person-centered and expand home and community-based services (HCBS) to enable more Americans to age in place.

Altarum offers deep expertise in addressing long-term services and supports (LTSS) challenges. Working with partners around the country, we’re developing tools to help states address direct care workforce shortage and leveraging quality improvement initiatives and hands-on trainings to transform nursing home culture.

Explore our impactful work below.

Our LTSS Expertise in Practice

A older woman in a nursing home is delighted by all the choices available to her in the cafeteria
Case Study

Improving Resident Lives by Transforming Residential Long-Term Care to a Person-Centered Model

Altarum is working with residential settings in several states to bring person-centeredness into everyday care. Residents, staff, and families all benefit from improved resident quality of life.

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Providing Solutions to Address Grief, Bereavement, and Isolation in Long-Term Care Settings

Learn how our online learning action network (LAN) helps residents and staff in Michigan nursing homes build resiliency while better responding to loneliness and grief.

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Project

The Systems Change Tracking Tool

A Tool to Prioritize and Track Culture Change in Nursing Homes.

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FOCUS AREAS: Long-Term Services and Supports

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New Report on Reform Options for Long-Term Services and Supports (LTSS) in Minnesota Aims to Enhance Access and Explore New Funding Approaches for Older Adults

New report, "Options to Increase Access to Long-Term Care Financing, Services, and Supports in Minnesota," identifies three recommendations to alleviate the financial burden of long-term care costs on individuals and their families and Medicaid.

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Perspective: Nursing Home Staffing Trends and the Covid-19 Pandemic

The recent changes in nursing home staffing, census, and the number of nursing homes operating in the U.S. raises the question of how these changes have interacted to affect the extent of understaffing during and after the pandemic and the extent to which the proposed staffing standards from CMS are currently being met. Altarum's George Miller and Corey Rhyan address this question through a review of trends in nursing home resident census and staffing levels from before the start of the pandemic through the end of 2022.

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Altarum CEO Michael Monson Appointed Chair of Long-Term Quality Alliance (LTQA) Board of Directors

Monson’s experience in long-term services and supports (LTSS) will support the LTQA member organizations that represent the full range of health care and social services delivery systems involved in provision, administration, innovation, policymaking, and advocacy for quality LTSS.

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AAA/D-SNP Care Coordination and Integration Using the Age Friendly Health Systems’ 4Ms Framework

How can we improve care coordination and health outcomes for older adults with higher needs? This report funded by The John A. Hartford Foundation explores a promising AAA/D-SNP model that integrates the age-friendly 4Ms framework.

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Altarum Releases 2022 Impact Report

Our 2022 Impact Report offers 18 stories of how Altarum is advancing our mission, pushing the boundaries of what is possible, and making a real difference.

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Related Events

Altarum at NAMD 2024.
Event
November 11 - November 13, 2024

Altarum to Exhibit at National Association of Medicaid Directors (NAMD) Conference

Altarum is proud to exhibit at the National Association of Medicaid Directors (NAMD) 2024 Conference November 11-13 in Washington, DC. Learn how you can schedule a meeting with the Altarum team.

Altarum at 2024 HCBS Conference.
Event
August 18 - August 22, 2024

Altarum is Proud Sponsor and Exhibitor of ADvancing State’s Home and Community-Based Services (HCBS) Conference

Altarum will be exhibiting and presenting at the 2024 HCBS conference. Meet with our team to learn more about our solutions and services to support state efforts to improve HCBS. We will also be hosting a live demo and presentation about our Direct Care Career system.

LeadingAge Michigan
Event
April 28 - May 01, 2024

Altarum to Present at LeadingAge Michigan’s 2024 Annual Conference & Expo

Altarum will present at the LeadingAge Michigan 2024 Annual Conference & Solutions Expo. Join us to hear lessons learned on grief and bereavement practices for nursing home staff and residents gleaned through our work supported by the Michigan Health Endowment Fund. Learn more about how you can connect with our experts at the event.

Our LTSS Experts

Helen Dawson

Helen Dawson

Project Manager
Sarah Barth

Sarah Barth

Executive Director, Medicare-Medicaid Services for States