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Call for Proposals: Health Equity Innovations Fund

The AARP Center for Health Equity through Nursing and the RWJF Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action released a call for proposals to fund efforts to eliminate structural racism and other structural inequities within the nursing profession, health systems or community that lead to improved access to care and services for those most disproportionally impacted by health disparities. Awards of up to $50,000 will be given. Applications are due November 15. Projects that demonstrate collaboration with the Campaign for Action’s state-based Action Coalitions will be viewed more favorably.

Adults 65 and Older Surpass Vaccination Goal During 2020-21 Flu Season

With COVID vaccination outreach efforts likely driving the spike, in the last flu season 75 percent of people ages 65+ got influenza vaccinations—not only surpassing the rate for the previous season but easily beating the 70 percent goal set by the US Department of Health and Human Services’ Healthy People 2030 initiative.

American Indian and Alaska Native Elders Are Now Leaders in Pneumococcal Vaccination

Despite facing significant challenges in health care access, American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) adults in 2020 led other groups in pneumococcal vaccination rates. At 47%, their rate was higher than white (46%), Black (32%), Asian (30%), and Hispanic (25%) older adults. The somewhat surprising news is especially significant given that pneumonia is a leading cause of death among AI/AN elders.

Trail-Blazing Nurse-Led Clinic: Expanding Access to Care, Thanks to Black Mother-Daughter Duo

One is an acute care hospitalist. One is a family nurse practitioner. They are also mother and daughter, and together have opened the clinic that serves a community in need. In fact, the facility—launched right in their home and operating four-and-a-half days a week when they’re off from their hospital jobs—happens to be the first Black-owned, mother-daughter nurse-led clinic in New Jersey. A blog from The Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action‚ an initiative of AARP Foundation, AARP, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, tells their story.

Nursing Home COVID Cases and Deaths Are Down, But Vaccination Rates Have Stalled

After four consecutive months of increases, rates of COVID-19 nursing resident deaths as well as cases among residents and staff declined for the first time, data for the four weeks ending September 18 showed. Among residents, the death rate declined by 20% and cases fell by 26%. But COVID-19 transmission in nursing homes remains elevated, with the rate of cases among staff and residents more than six times as high as April 2022, before the four-month surge. Get the latest data from the AARP Nursing Home COVID-19 Dashboard.

Policy Now Video: AARP Dashboard Tool Reveals Nursing Home COVID, Staffing Challenges

Tracking the impact COVID is having on nursing homes, the AARP Nursing Home COVID-19 Dashboard reports on data at the state level, examining resident and staff cases and deaths, staff shortages, and vaccinations. In this recent AARP Policy Now video, Susan Reinhard, AARP senior vice president and director of the AARP Public Policy Institute, says one solution to help decrease infection rates and mortality is to address staffing shortages. That can happen by improving salaries, providing adequate sick leave, and focusing on worker careers.

LTSS Choices: Coordinating Housing, Health and LTSS Through Home-Based Care Management

Housing-based care management (HBCM) programs use the housing system to extend primary care and human-service practices into the homes of people with needs for long-term services and supports. In an HBCM program in Vermont called SASH (Support and Services at Home), residents’ close proximity and common health care needs create efficiencies of scale, all while each resident receives an individually tailored wellness plan developed in consultation with a care coordinator and wellness nurse.

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