Living Choice Project (LCP)
We don't accomplish anything in
this world alone... and whatever
happens is the result of the whole
tapestry of one's life and all
the weavings of individual threads
from one to another that creates
something.
Sandra
Day O'Conner
During 2008, LTCA entered into
a contract with the Oklahoma Health
Care Authority (OKHCA) to implement
a Federal Medicaid Money Follows
the Person rebalancing grant titled
Living Choice Project. The purpose
of this project is to transition
2,500 Oklahomans currently residing
in nursing homes back home to
the community with needed home
and community based long term
care services by 2011.
For more information on OKHCA's
Living Choice Project, please
visit http://www.ohca.state.ok.us/individuals.aspx?id=9476.
OLDR State Advisory Team
OLDR, Older Adult Targeted
Capacity Expansion Grant Program
proposes to increase Oklahoma's
state infrastructure to better
serve older adults with behavioral
health issues, as well as to implement
evidence based services. Transformation
momentum continues in Oklahoma.
OLDR works to identify and advocate
for improved mental health care;
systems change; and, innovative
solutions to ensure that all Oklahomans
have opportunities and supports
to recover from behavioral health
issues and to prosper in the communities
of their choice.
As an OLDR advisory team member,
LTCA works with the Oklahoma Department
of Mental Health and Substance
Abuse Services, behavioral health
and leaders in the aging field
to create the state infrastructure
by piloting evidenced based services
in Comanche and Ottawa counties.
For more information about OLDR,
contact
Ryan White HIV
Home Health Assistance Program
This program offers skilled nursing
care or homemaker services when
needed to aassist with activities
of daily living. With the assistance
of homemakers, home health aides
and/or skilled nursing visits,
people living with HIV/AIDS stay
at home rather than receiving
services at a nursing facility
or hospital.
LTCA contracts with the Oklahoma
Department of Health to administer
and amanage the program in Oklahoma.
For more information on Ryan White
in Oklahoma visit
Ryan White Programs.
Ryan White HIV
Drug Assistance Program
The AIDS Drug Assistance Program
(ADAP) provides medications for
the treatment of HIV disease.
Funds are also used to purchase
health insurance for eligible
clients and for services that
enhance access to, adherence to,
and monitoring of drug treatments.
The program is funded through
Part B of the Ryan White HIV/AIDS
Treatment Modernization Act.
LTCA contracts with the Oklahoma
Department of Health to administer
and manage the program in Oklahoma.
For more information about Ryan
White in Oklahoma visit Ryan White Programs.
The National Association of State
Units on Aging (NASUA) and the
National Association of Area Agencies
on Aging (n4a), conscious of the
financial pressures facing states
and the federal government, have
developed a coordinated national
long-term care strategy that will
generate savings in Medicaid and
Medicare. This strategy enables
older adults and individuals with
disabilities to get the support
they need to successfully age
where they want to -- in their
own home and communities.
This program will empower individuals
to make informed decisions and
to better conserve and extend
their own resources using lower
cost evidence-based programs,
including consumer-directed options
for care in the community.
LTCA supports the Oklahoma Department
of Human Services Aging Services
Division (OKDHS/ASD) and its Project
2020 and its goals. For more information
on OKDHS/ASD work on Project 2020
visit OKDHS.