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Visit the online LTSS TA Center for videos, best practices, toolkits, a resource library, and a step-by-step planning roadmap.
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Protecting the health of nursing home residents
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COVID-19 vaccines play a crucial role in protecting nursing home residents from hospitalization and death.
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To that end, CMS now requires nursing homes to report COVID-19 vaccination rates for both residents and staff.
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For a list of every nursing home’s recent resident and staff vaccination rates, visit CMS’s COVID-19 Nursing Home Data webpage.
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Other helpful resources on the webpage include:
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National Title VI program survey report and toolkit
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In 2020, the National Association of Area Agencies on Aging (now renamed USAging) conducted a survey to assess the needs of Title VI programs and the pandemic’s impact on Title VI grantee services.
A full report on the survey’s findings, Serving Tribal Elders Across the United States (PDF, 6.3 MB, 36 pp), is now available, along with a National Survey Report Toolkit that Title VI programs can use to share the survey findings.
The toolkit provides various resources, including:
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Supportive listening and cognitive resilience
Research suggests a specific form of social support—supportive listening—helps enhance cognitive resilience.
According to study results published in JAMA Network Open, people who can count on the availability of a supportive listener tend to perform better than expected cognitively, despite having age- and disease-related changes in brain volume.
The study also suggests considering targeted, specific forms of social support for inclusion in psychosocial interventions or related public health strategies to promote neurocognitive health.
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