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Insights for Aging Services Professionals

Guide Your Clients Toward These Benefits That Help Them Afford Health Care Costs
The Medicare Open Enrollment Period ends Dec. 15, and beneficiaries may be looking for ways to afford the costs they expect to incur next year. There are benefits programs that can help. That's where the Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act (MIPPA) comes in. Get tools and training to find and enroll low-income people with Medicare into benefits that save money on health care, prescriptions, and more.
Use best practices from the MIPPA Resource Center
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Share your best ideas at Age+Action 2025
Aging services professionals are the stars of the Age+Action Conference. Take the spotlight! Present about healthy aging, economic well-being, or senior centers.
Propose a session
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News and Resources

What makes an evidence-based program?
Learn and ask questions about the Administration for Community Living's Evidence-Based Program Review Process opening in January 2025. Speakers will discuss the application schedule, the review process, and an overview of the criteria.
Watch live on Dec. 9 @ 3 p.m. ET
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Bring your programs to rural communities
Our new toolkit highlights strategies for bringing chronic disease self-management education programs to rural communities, where bonds are strong but barriers can prevent health care access.
Browse the toolkit
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Improving millions of lives
NCOA is focused on measurably improving 40 million lives by 2030, and we are keeping ourselves accountable. Learn how we measure outcomes and how many older adults we've helped this year.
Explore our 2024 report
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Two Ways You Can Improve Federal Aging Policy

Keeping health care affordable
Community-based organizations across the country depend on modest federal funding to conduct benefits outreach to low-income households. On Dec. 31, the funding expires.
Message your members of Congress
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Bipartisan support for better obesity care
The Treat and Reduce Obesity Act would leverage an important tool to help older adults address their health: Medicare coverage of more evidence-based obesity treatments.
Learn more about the bill
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