2007 Colloquium
Saturday, June 2
Orlando, FL
Join The Commonwealth Fund and AcademyHealth on Saturday, June 2 in Orlando for the fourth Building Bridges: Making a Difference in Long-Term Care Colloquium. This event is part of a strategic initiative that brings together policy leaders, providers, consumer advocates, researchers, and funders around critical issues in long-term care. This is a unique opportunity for stakeholders to exchange information, debate the issues, seek solutions, and identify where additional research is needed.
The 2007 Colloquium will focus on two issues:
Conflicting Incentives for Long-term Care: Medicare and Medicaid
David Grabowski, Ph. D., at Harvard Medical School’s Department of Health Care Policy will prepare a background paper and explore the conflicting incentives within the Medicare and Medicaid programs concerning the provision and financing of long-term care, as well as the implications of those incentives for quality, financing, and policy. Grabowski will synthesize what is known, develop a research agenda, and identify methodological concerns and obstacles to building an evidence base to inform the policy debate.
Consumer Preparedness for Long-term Care
This year’s colloquium will feature a new forum format designed to stimulate discussion among an expert panel and colloquium participants. The goal of this facilitated discussion will be to engage the dynamic panel in a discussion of issues related to long-term care planning. In addition, the facilitator will elicit the experts’ and colloquium participants’ sense of which issues were most important to policymakers and practitioners, as well as where research efforts should be focused. Following the colloquium, AcademyHealth will prepare an issue brief synthesizing the discussion and outlining research and policy agendas.
The meeting will be held on Saturday, June 2 from 8:30 a.m. until 4 p.m, in conjunction with AcademyHealth's Annual Research Meeting in Orlando, FL.
For more information on AcademyHealth and The Commonwealth Fund, see www.academyhealth.org and www.cmwf.org.
Inquiries can be directed to Christal Stone at 202.292.6765 or ltc@academyhealth.org.
