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What is PACE……….?

What is PACE……….?. P rogram for A ll-Inclusive C are for the E lderly. PACE is a ………………program. Comprehensive Coordinated Interdisciplinary Customized Cost effective. Comprehensive. Primary care Adult day health Home Health Services Social Services, psychiatry Specialists

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What is PACE……….?

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  1. What is PACE……….? ProgramforAll-Inclusive Care for the Elderly

  2. PACE is a ………………program • Comprehensive • Coordinated • Interdisciplinary • Customized • Cost effective

  3. Comprehensive • Primary care • Adult day health • Home Health Services • Social Services, psychiatry • Specialists • Podiatry/Optometry/ Dental/Audiology • Medications, Glasses, Dentures, Diapers, DME • Meals • Transportation • Pharmacological and Dietary Services • Procedures and hospitalizations • Assisted Living Services and Nursing home

  4. Coordinated • One team takes care of all your needs • Same team follows you through the continuum (home, hospital, nursing home) You don’t get lost in the system. • PACE provides transportation to the day center to medical appointments and specialists • PACE schedules the home health aides, meals, oxygen etc. • PACE will make the appointments with the specialists and tests to provide quality care • Low re- admission rates

  5. Interdisciplinary • All staff sit around the same table todiscussissues and plans of care. • Team is made up of a doctor, nurse practitioner, nurse, social worker, pharmacist, dietician case-manager and rehab. • Each team takes care of 120-150 participants • Preventative care- Staff see participants on a regular basis

  6. Customized • Each plan of care is customized to the participants needs and situation. • Flexibility to offer services that make sense • The plan of care is always changing • The participant is an active participant in designing the care plan

  7. Cost effective • Frail elder waiver ($2163) • Cost is not affected by the amount of care • We do the Medicaid applications if needed • We do accept Medicaid only, monthly spendown if over $2163 as well as private pay. You can be 55 years old in the program if disabled. • Contracted AL rates (do not pay more than your income)

  8. Eligibility • 55 years and older • Live in Avon, Boston, Braintree, Canton, Dedham, Holbrook, Milton, Norwood, Quincy, Randolph, Sharon, Stoughton, Weymouth • Qualify for “nursing facility care” determined by the state. • Ability to live safely in the community with supports • Payment source: Medicare, Medicaid, monthly spendowns, private pay

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