2008 SMP Integration Grant Program
In 2008, AoA awarded seven grants to state aging organizations to
reach elderly individuals in hard-to-reach rural and tribal areas
through a variety of partnerships, collaborative approaches, use of
technology and other innovative strategies. These grantees are located
in Little Rock, Ark.; New Castle, Del.; Baltimore, Md.; Boston, Mass.; Columbus, Ohio;
San Juan, Puerto Rico; and Madison, Wis.
The overall goal of the 2008 Integration Projects is to develop
innovations that can be successfully replicated by the SMP community to
expand and integrate program coverage within rural areas by expanding
the reach of the SMP program to beneficiaries throughout rural and
tribal areas of the state using strategic collaborations with area
agencies on aging (AAAs), Aging and Disability Resource Centers (ADRC)
and federally recognized tribal organizations, ensuring that the SMP
fraud prevention message reaches elders and their families in the most
isolated and hardest-to-reach areas and increasing awareness,
empowerment and actions to prevent health care fraud among populations
thus far generally underserved by the SMP program.
2008 SMP Integration Grantees and Their Focus
Arkansas Department of Human Services, Division of Aging and Adult
Services and the University Arkansas at
Little Rock (UALR) Senior Justice
Center
The Arkansas SMP Integration Project is focusing on expanding and
integrating program coverage within one of the poorest, most rural areas
in the nation, the Arkansas Delta, via an innovative community outreach,
education and research model that can be successfully replicated by
other SMPs across the country.
2010 Presentations of Findings
The Delaware Department of Health and Social Services
With the help of its partners, the Institute of Public
Administration, the Nanticoke Indian Tribe Association,
the Delaware aging network and local cable
network (COMCAST), the Delaware SMP Integration Project is structuring a
strategic plan detailing geographical clusters of targeted populations,
developing and implementing unique models for replication by the
Delaware SMP and others.
2010 Presentations of Findings
Maryland Department of Aging
The Maryland SMP Integration Project is identifying isolated
populations in rural and tribal areas; providing the necessary skills,
knowledge and tools to help prevent fraud, error or abuse in health
care; empowering seniors to take action to report instances of suspected
fraud, error or abuse; developing and implementing a rural outreach plan
with the Rural Maryland Health Council.
2010 Presentations of Findings
Massachusetts Executive Office of
Elder Affairs
The Executive Office of Elder Affairs and the Massachusetts State
Unit on Aging are using the SMP Integration Project to develop
innovative strategies for replication that will reach and educate
isolated elders in rural areas and in counties with a high American
Indian/Native American presence about the SMP Program and how to prevent
health care fraud.
2010 Presentations of Findings
Ohio Department on Aging
The Ohio SMP Integration Project is targeting seniors in three
Planning and Service Areas, made up of rural Appalachian counties, using
long-term care ombudsmen to foster statewide coverage of the SMP program
and increase the visibility of the program in rural areas that may be
isolated from conventional outreach strategies.
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placemat designs suitable for distribution to congregate meal sites,
senior centers, adult day service centers, continuing care retirement
communities, home delivered meal sites or other locations where seniors
and their caregivers may have a meal. Can be printed on either
11x14 or 8.5x11 paper or adapted to a folded format with room for other
information on the reverse.
2010 Presentations of Findings
Puerto Rico Office of the Ombudsman
for the Elderly
The Puerto Rico SMP Integration Project is reaching out to
Medicare/Medicaid beneficiaries, caregivers and their families residing
in isolated and hard-to-reach rural areas through service programs
coordinated by two AAAs on the island – through home-delivered
meals programs out of local senior centers, through the collaborative
effort with the Central Government’s Special Communities Program,
and through local radio and newspapers.
2010 Presentations of Findings
Wisconsin Department of Health Services
The Wisconsin Rural and Tribal Outreach Program is partnering with
the aging network, the Great Lakes Intertribal Council and non-aging
partners such as the University of Wisconsin Extension Agents, Farm
Bureau and other organizations with contact with rural, hard-to-reach
elderly to design innovative models to reach Wisconsin rural and tribal
elderly populations with the SMP fraud message to enhance the Wisconsin
SMP program and that can be replicated by other SMPs across the
country.
2010 Presentations of Findings
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