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7 Special Needs Populations: Helping Those Most in Need of Assistance
7 Special Needs Populations: Helping Those Most in Need of Assistance
Pages 35-38
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The Health Care Financing Administration's (HCFA's) current paradigm of frail elderly includes those with low levels of education, Afiican Americans, those who live in rural settings, those with impaired hearing or vision, Hispanics, and dually eligible individuals (those beneficiaries with both Medicare and Medicaid)
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Such MCOs also are more disposed to developing systematic ways of interacting with community-based social services to assist individuals in gaining access to the health care system (i.e., rehabilitation programs and diabetes, hypertension, and disease management programs)
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Participants emphasized to the committee that one of the most important issues that should be kept in mind when developing information resources for the immigrant communities is their lower level of literacy, particularly with written English. Alternative Methods of Reaching the Immigrant Populations it is also important for HCFA and other groups reaching out to the beneficiaries to work with those in the ethnic communities whom the elderly people in those communities trust.
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The American Bar Association Commission on Legal Problems of the Elderly, the American Association of Retired Persons, and the Alzheimer's Association are working with HCFA to develop a set of rules governing decision making in managed care for people with cognitive impairments. Current HCFA materials indicate that state laws in the area of decision making have precedence over federal regulations.
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