Aging and In-Home Services (AIHS) of Northeast Indiana announced that it will expand an initiative with Seniorlink's Caregiver Homes of Indiana that helps to increase communication between its case managers and the families they serve. AIHS will soon begin offering the new service to over 200 families who are caring for loved ones with chronic or complex conditions during the pandemic.

The initiative provides AIHS case managers who work with families with Medicaid waivers access to Vela, Caregiver Homes' secure digital collaboration platform, to facilitate communication with family caregivers of Medicaid consumers. The program was launched in late . . .

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Disability Support & Long Term Care Services

Disability and long-term care refers to institutional and community-based care that support individuals with activities of daily living and services related to age or disability. Over the past decade, there has been an increase in the changes and challenges affecting the disability support and long-term care market markets—the move to managed care and subsequently value-based care, the shift to home- and community-based care, the increase in the aging population, and new workforce challenges.


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