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How State and Local Agencies on Aging Help Older Adults: Susan DeMarois, Greg Olsen, and Lindsey Yourman

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This includes transportation, driver’s license, parks, volunteerism, housing, and of course health and human services. This is reaching the highest utilizers with a wraparound suite of services. Well, if you are like me, you’ve probably heard of these programs but are at a loss to know exactly what they do.

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Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model: A Podcast with Malaz Boustani and Diane Ty

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So I think what’s really exciting is that these community-based organizations, some of those groups that provide training, transportation, respite care, all of that was never included. The typical utilization of inappropriate hospitalization and emergency room and total cost of care. And that’s a big part of this new model.